Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speak. But in the end, the choice was mainly symbolic. Readers get both cover-length packages in this week's magazine. As we continue a year of covering down-to-earth politics with a passion, we'll likewise over the coming months (and years and decades) keep our curious eyes on the doings of any other cohabitants of the cosmos. It's all part of our own temporal mission to tell the tales and synthesize the complexities of our fascinating world--and universe...
...HISTORY OF THE ADVENTURES OF MR. ROSS PEROT AND HIS CURIOUS QUEST TO BE BOSS...
...America's quintessential media consumer: a hardworking breadwinner who settles down after dinner with his feet up and his thumb on the remote. So Tim Bajarin, an analyst at the research firm Creative Strategies, was curious about how the man would react to a focus-group presentation of Silicon Valley's latest hot idea: using a TV receiver to cruise the Internet. As Bajarin watched, the subject waited patiently a full 30 seconds for a sports-related Web page to fill the screen. He studied it for a minute, then looked up and asked, "When do the movies start...
...American homes that aren't yet connected. For this Passive Majority, most of whom don't even own a computer, let alone a modem, "Net TV" would seem to make perfect sense. After all, nearly everybody in America has a TV and a telephone, and many are presumably curious to learn what the World Wide Web is all about. If they could use their existing sets to access the Infobahn from the comfort of their La-Z-Boys, the Web might finally become the mass medium its promoters have been promising all along...
Singling out ID4 for special praise is as curious as his commendation for True Lies in his earlier Movietown foray. Well, maybe not: both have heroines who strip and both were produced by 20th Century Fox, the studio controlled by Rupert Murdoch, a schlockmeister and heavy G.O.P. supporter who has contributed to Dole...