Word: couched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Junior uses anxious violin chords to underline the confessions of an alienated couch potato who sees "the world through the TV Guide" and muses, "I know I'm missin' something/ But I don't know what it is." Case 795 (The Family) is an unflinching view of a domestic squabble that ends with the wife "bleeding on the floor in the kitchen/ With cake on her fingers...
Finding out what to do with the stuff once unearthed was a little harder. With the memory of last year's large but spartanly furnished room still fresh in my mind, I had wheeled and dealed during the closing days of last year. My couch will justfit in my room...
...after they lost the right to have two-year-old Tyler ever set foot in their home again, Sharon Bottoms and her lover April Wade sat on a couch beneath a framed handwritten copy of the vows of love and commitment that brought on all their grief. Decorated with a rose drawn by April and signed Oct. 27, 1992, the pledge reads, "With this ring, I give you my love forever. I promise to be faithful, honest and totally yours, for as long as I shall live . . . I ask that you take me as I will take you, to love...
...been following Letterman for more than a decade -- tuning in nearly every night since Late Night first aired in 1982. Zoglin arrived at TIME the next year, after four years as TV critic at the Atlanta Constitution. Since then he has watched TV for us with a couch potato's endurance and a sharp but fair-minded critic's eye, writing hundreds of savvy, tightly crafted reviews and features -- as well as cover stories on such subjects as Bill Cosby, Diane Sawyer, Arsenio Hall and Murphy Brown...
...show will be toned down or changed in any substantive way to suit the earlier time period. In a series of brainstorming meetings on the subject, Letterman and his producers considered several ideas -- expanding the opening monologue, switching from a single chair for guests to a Tonight-style couch -- and rejected them. Says Morton: "We decided we do a pretty darn good show...