Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Diana played out an old American fantasy, the real-life fairy tale. She was setting about the job of living happily ever after, a goal her sad-faced royal in-laws never seemed even to entertain, and so we rooted for her. It helped a lot that we knew so little. We could make her anything we chose, and her evolving image often said more about what we wanted than about...
...Central Park show. But he didn't play a single song from his unreleased album, focusing instead on his hits. "What we brought is a lot of our old stuff," he told the crowd. His performance was energetic and amiable but lacking in substance--Brooks was out merely to entertain, not to create great music. And most people were so far from the stage that Brooks was just a black speck in a cowboy hat. Hometown-hero Billy Joel, a special guest on a few songs, got a larger ovation. The highlight of the show came at the end, after...
...muster for the elitists who purport otherwise--TV is good." The essay reaches its own peak of self-righteousness when it points out that TV "makes us laugh" and "makes us cry" and asks, "Can any other medium match TV for its immediacy, its impact, its capacity to entertain?" But this argument, however flimsy, is contradicted in the end: "Let us rejoice in our fully adjustable, leather-upholstered recliners. Let us celebrate our cerebral-free non-activity." Certainly the phrase "cerebral-free non-activity" justifies the phrase "Idiot Box," and ABC, in four little paragraphs, proves the unspecified pundits...
...human performers, fine as they are, simply can't compare to the $10 million worth of eye candy that surrounds them. And perhaps it's just as well: "Showboat" is just what its name signifies, a spectacle that's meant to dazzle and entertain--and collect admission. On these terms, this "Showboat" scores a resounding success...
...Dins will entertain passengers aboard the Queen Elizabeth II (QE II) with three evening a capella performances in exchange for passage, according to Aerlyn G. Dawn '98, president of the Dins...