Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...notice that the most fervent claims of disenfranchisement and marginalization haven't come from the Radcliffe Union of Students, or from Harvard's gay, lesbian and bisexual community, or even from the various minority organizations, but from campus conservatives. Our own fixation on tolerance allows our Peninsuloid friends to demand that even their own intolerance be tolerated...
...maybe Bronfman is aiming somewhere between a passive investment and an exorbitantly expensive takeover battle. Seagram might want to amass only enough stock to demand a voice in the company's varied businesses. Or maybe, deadening anticlimax though this thought might be, Bronfman has not made up his mind...
...guests propels the show out of the starchy promotion-circuit interview format. After nearly nine months of gestating under constant media scrutiny of the now-hyper-commercialized late night niche, the energy at the tapings has perceptibly and sharply mounted to a proudly fevered level since times of leaner demand, which were as recent as January. A good portion of the throng mobbing the NBC studio area must now be turned away each night. Despite media speculation that Conan should fear the warm breath of Greg Kinnear or Jon Stewart on his neck, NBC firmly stands behind Conan, who beams...
...further in the future are their freshly renewed hopes for steady jobs, well-lit houses, modern schools, neighborhood clinics. Few delude themselves that a mansion and a Mercedes are at hand, but almost all expect -- even demand -- some visible improvement in their everyday life. "There is a transfer of power taking place to the toiling masses of this country," says Voice Mabe, a trade-union worker in Soweto. "From the end of April, there will be drastic changes...