Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fulfill expectations, viewers as independent as today's Net surfers will be able to travel not just to Websites on flat-panel computer screens but also into home theaters filled with ganglia-tingling news, entertainment and shopping options that they can choose with the flick of a remote-control button. Madison Avenue's big challenge will then be to get consumers to use that same remote-control device to buy an airline ticket to Club Med and, eventually, even...
...similarly prodigious effort of overindulgence, I have kicked Minesweeper. I did not avoid the temptation. I drowned it. I played. Night and day. Till I dropped. When I wanted to stop, I didn't. I forced myself back to the keyboard. Grid after grid, I kept hitting the Restart button. Long after I'd had enough, I made myself play some more. And then it broke: I'd played my final game...
Viewers push buttons on pistol grips mounted on the armests of their seats; graphics indicate when it's time to vote and what the choices are. During the voting, a running tally appears on-screen. The idea is to push your button of choice not just once--which one would think would be all that was strictly necessary--but as many times and as fast as possible. This is clearly designed to foster an atmosphere of rowdy and cheerful competition, especially as audience members are encouraged to shout at one another. At the screening I attended, Interfilm lackeys in DPMO...
...Belly-button fixation--what's UP with that?" you demand...
...spring semester, and I've got belly buttons on the brain. The navel has traditionally been considered an important body part, central in more than just a physical sense. The ancient Greeks considered Delphi the omphalos, the navel and sprirtual center of the world, and 1950's television censors decreed that Barbara Eden's bellybutton could not peek out of her harem out fit on the otherwise ground-breaking show I Dream of Jeannie. But it's not the navel as a historical concept or source of titillation that has been occupying the dusty corners of my fevered brain, haunting...