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...there you are. Alone. You’re sitting on your couch in Old Quincy and you’re stunned, all but empty, the response paper and other article you’ve been working on shoved mercilessly to the side. Moments ago, you had left your friends and your seat on a dirty green carpet in DeWolfe because a change of scenery felt necessary...
Sound familiar? While it seems as though hordes of couch potatoes are snapping up the latest displays, the wonders of LCD and plasma TV technology are still well out of reach for the average shopper. True, at retailer Circuit City, sales of flat-TV models have tripled over the past year, prompting CEO W. Alan McCollough to label this Christmas "a flat-panel holiday." But as long as the price tag on a flat-screen TV is four or more times as much as a comparable tube TV, many consumers will drool and dream but not bite. "Prices [of flat...
...right around the time Ben Stiller turned up at a Bat Mitzvah disguised as a mime that I started to yearn for the couch. But I had downloaded Starsky & Hutch to my home-office computer. And even though the picture looked great in full-screen mode on my 17in. monitor, with none of the jerkiness that sometimes plagues online video streams, I had my feet propped up on a printer, and my husband had to stand behind me to see Stiller strut his stuff. Not what I had in mind for movie night...
...finished my language orientation for the day and I headed over to my friend Danielle’s apartment for a cute French dinner. After dinner, I sat on her couch and watched Cruel Intentions until it was time to meet up with some other friends. Shortly after arriving on the Champs-Elysees, I met up with a friend from my program, Ashley, and we proceeded to VIP (or, as the French say, “veep?...
...strain that the town places on its youth, never relenting in applying that pressure. Though some of the scenes in which he embarrasses his son with his overbearing demeanor—Charlie at one point appears out of thin air as his son fondles his girlfriend on the couch, before taping his hands to a football after a pre-season fumble—McGraw makes the father’s irrational anger and desperation surprisingly believable and all the more heartbreaking...