Word: couched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sank $50 million into the Newseum, and it shows. You can't turn around without bumping into some shiny chunk of high-tech hardware: touch-screen computers, Cinerama-style theaters and a video wall so large--126 ft. long, 10 1/2 ft. high--that it could theoretically accommodate 300 couch potatoes at the same time. Reporters love the Newseum, of course, but so do the schoolkids who come by the busload. This is more than just a tourist trap; it is a $50 million testament to the terrifying insecurity that lurks at the heart of American journalism...
...just live in the kitchen." On one wall hangs a large board that notes everyone's activities, from karate lessons and art classes to Dad's location shoots; nearby, behind safety glass, is one of the original balsa-wood Rosebud sleds from Citizen Kane. "There's also this couch," says Capshaw, "which is Steven Central. He has a bunch of scripts to read, and tapes--casting reels, dailies, bits of animation--that he pops into the VCR. But if one of the kids asks him to build a castle, he's immediately down on the floor, building that castle...
...Martin is a haunted man. What's put him on the couch of Alan Arkin's understandably nervous psychiatrist is lack of job satisfaction--killing the President of Paraguay with a fork just isn't the kick it might once have been--and the fact that he still pines for his high school sweetheart, whom he stood up without explanation on their long-ago prom night. Since she is played by the divine Minnie Driver--now working as a disk jockey but still smitten, it turns out, and still warily available--his feelings are understandable...
Every nation gets the TV it deserves. And 1990s America, a land replete with both couch potatoes and high-tech capitalists, surely deserves high-definition television (HDTV), the digital TV signal whose aesthetic pleasures and economic efficiencies will transform the shows we watch and the boxes we watch them on. Last week the Federal Communications Commission voted to give broadcasters free channels on which to broadcast digital versions of their current programs. A few questions about the future of the boob tube...
...launched Mer (Mayor) an eau de cologne meant to bring the olfactory essence of Luzkov to the masses, the English-language daily The Moscow Times reports. "Maybe after Russian women give their husbands this fragrance, it will inspire them to be more like Luzhkov, to get off the couch, take charge and make the lives of Russian women easier," gushes Nadezhda Petrukhina, head of product development at Novaya Zarya, the perfume factory which produced the cologne. With its solid square shape and silver cap, Mer's bottle symbolizes "the broad, masculine shoulders of a man" who's ready to shoulder...