Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inherently risky, while most prime-time hours are filled with knock-offs of last season's big hits. Seinfeld was off the air less than a year before writer alum Peter Mehlman was back with It's like, you know..., which differs only in that it explores West Coast rather than East Coast inanities (car chases, cell phones and celebrities instead of parking places, subways and Chinese restaurants). "You flip the channels, and everything looks the same," says Thomas Schlamme, who went from directing the critically acclaimed Larry Sanders Show to executive-producing Sports Night. "You get the setup...
...while ensuring self-perpetuation. In its execution, Boston's contribution to the awards phenomenon was not too different. The town's Music Awards even had famed personalities present to complement the Boston musicians and their fans. These celebrities, fixtures in award culture, are darlings propelled to notoriety by the coast-to-coast pop culture machine. Joshua Jackson, Duncan Sheik, Joey McIntyre and Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo were such conspicuous faces in the crowd. The best evidence for the power of this machine were the bunches of prepubescent girls screaming for Jackson, the Dawson's Creek star, and McIntyre...
...Premise Scientists onboard a floating research facility off the coast of California experiment with mako sharks in order to find a cure for AIDS and other diseases. The experiments take a horrifying turn for the worse when the newly altered sharks turn on the inhabitants of the laboratory and endanger the lives...
Such remote learning was possible at Harvard Law School (HLS) until only recently. HLS, which has more than 1,600 students, roughly three times the size of its counterpart in New Haven, has a reputation for being big and impersonal. It was rumored that some students ran West Coast businesses and would jut back to Cambridge to take final exams. Then the HLS faculty cracked down, enacting a mandatory attendance policy last year that has proven highly unpopular with the students...
...city types out there with an admissions letter in hand, you will begin starving for the buzz of downtown in no time. If you live for the thrill of the Metro or T, stay on the East Coast...