Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like Beavis and Butt-head, in which the principals are intentionally distanced from their own programs. The ideal would be to remove oneself from experience while engaging in experience and to make experience deliberately fleeting. The structure of the sitcom Seinfeld continued to depend on dozens of fast-moving, bite-size scenes that simulate the effect of surfing while remaining within a single coherent situation, thus pre-empting the viewer's urge to switch channels. Attention spans remained brief. Control remained remote...
...plumb recent TV history to find a funnier piece of sketch comedy than PI's Republican Party infomercial spoof, which aired the week of the San Diego convention. As the networks lulled us to sleep, Bill Maher's wry, combative round-table show succeeded in covering the campaign with bite...
...Ferreira. "He has that sixth sense of knowing where everybody is, that great anticipation." Last year Kariya scored 50 goals, assisted on 58 others and won the Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship. He is a student of juggling. Says Kariya: "I can do the [trick] where you take the bite out of the apple as it comes by." He has already taken a pretty big bite out of hockey...
...better at persuading an indifferent, otherwise-engaged American public to support risky adventures abroad. That is a role Albright has long auditioned for from the U.N.; she'll step in as the CNN Secretary of State that Christopher never wanted to be. She is the master of the sound bite, explaining complex issues in 10-second phrases that lunch-pail Americans can understand. She became famous for searing one-liners against dictators like Saddam Hussein and corrupt Haitian generals. "You can leave voluntarily and soon or involuntarily and soon," she told the junta...
...afterlife are rare, and notions of God are often vague. The ecospiritualists may pay homage to Gaia or indulge in tribal drumming rituals, but for many, Gaia is simply a metaphor, and drumming a way to unwind. Even ancient religions, as rendered by their excavators, lose some theological bite. The Asatru Webmaster admits his beloved Thor is just a symbol...