The Vcr Date

September, 1986

nowadays, going out to a movie means staying inThe Trouble with going out on dates is, you shave, put on a clean sweater, pick up your date and run into what? Old girlfriends.The old-fashioned night on the town has been replaced. Dating hordes now spend date nights cocooned in front of the chrome icon, Sony the All-Seeing.As social phenomena go, Video Saturday Night has nothing on William "The Refrigerator" Perry or even Madonna, but it's far bigger than the light-wine boom.There are m...

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