Word: couched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...floor of the Los Angeles Criminal Courts Building, a sometime actor finds himself trapped in the public's impression of him, but this time the typecasting can only help his case. The prosecution has a lot going for it -- a realistic set, a good supporting cast complete with a couch potato who times his life by reruns of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, waiters with ponytails and exotic accents, a lost dog and two grieving families. Still, persuading a juror who doubts that O.J. Simpson could be a monster capable of buying a 15- in. stiletto (requesting that...
Even Schreibers' office is undoubtedly trendy, with abstract paintings a black leather couch and his own purple leather chair...
...watching the movie Dracula on Bell Atlantic's Stargazer video-on- demand service, and it's working like a charm. It's part of the phone company's two-way interactive-TV system, which is designed to demonstrate how tomorrow's couch potatoes will order movies and TV shows from a menu of listings and make them start and stop whenever they want...
...Although a switched, broadband network could serve both computer users and television viewers, cable-TV operators in particular seem reluctant to allow computer owners to plug in. The cable operators, contends Michael Godwin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a public-interest group involved in electronic communications issues, "have a couch-potato vision of the future...
...some device that hasn't been invented. Like that of the telephone system before it, the power of the information highway will come from the new ways it allows people to connect, not with machines but with each other. And for that privilege, even the most stubborn couch potato might agree to get wired...