Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gigantic pictures of "men's wrestling" that suddenly appeared this fall. Or those eerily good-looking people who stand holding doors open for no apparent reason. Or maybe you've noticed that this fall the Square took a step towards homogeneity. The evidence is conclusive--Abercrombie & Fitch, no longer content with suburban malls, has jutted itself into Harvard Square...
What are the limitations of a senior athlete? Ligaments and tendons lose some of their fluid content and become less flexible with age. Muscles in older people don't use sugar as well, so the ability to respond with a burst of activity declines...
...companies, the money may eventually be, as it was for Microsoft, not in the hardware but the software: the interface, program databases, associated content like TV "magazines" to guide users and advertising. (Neither system currently shows ads, but each has discussed future possibilities, including sponsorships.) "Our strategy is to embed it into other boxes," says TiVo CEO and cofounder Mike Ramsay. "We're going to build it into television sets and DVD players...It will eventually get embedded into every device." Ultimately, several companies will manufacture the boxes under license. Philips currently makes TiVo's box, and this month TiVo...
...often been said that Stanley Kubrick has a tendency to put mood ahead of content in his films. But while such a predilection for atmosphere would be a fault in other directors, in Kubrick it was a gift, and in Eyes Wide Shut this gift comes shining through. A sort of Everyman for a sexually liberated age, Eyes Wide Shut features Tom Cruise, a sex symbol himself, as its wandering pilgrim. And the overwhelming tone of the film is certainly one of wandering. Progressing from one self-contained vignette to another, the movie moves from a theme and variations motif...
That's the trouble with beauty: it may be satisfying, but it's pedestrian. It is not the worst thing to content yourself with an image that almost speaks, but this beauty can't tell you anything that you don't already know. American Beauty isn't merely skin deep, but it never quite cuts to the bone...