Word: formatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future, Chase said he will host his own talk show on the Fox network, starting next August or early September. He said the show, which may run opposite David Letterman and Jay Leno's late-night shows, will be different from the traditional talk show format...
...format of the tournament is round-robin, with each school playing six matches over the three days. At the end, the team with the best record wins...
...glossy book titled Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge (HarperCollins; $20). Its cover touts alphabetic entries on everything from virtual reality and wetware to designer aphrodisiacs and TECHNO-EROTIC PAGANISM, promising to make cyberpunk's rarefied perspective immediately accessible. Inside, in an innovative hypertext format (which is echoed in this article), relatively straightforward updates on computer graphics, multimedia and fiber optics accompany wild screeds on such recondite subjects as SYNESTHESIA and TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONES...
These insights sustain even the weaker sections of the book; some of the New York stories aren't as well thought out as others. But Peck usually displays a full command of the different tones he employs. The short story format allows him to try on narrative voices that range from the biting to the lyrical, and he achieves effects that recall such very different writers as Raymond Carver and Willa Cather...
...have to do it as well as Jerry Seinfeld does it. I couldn't do it that well, so why waste my time?" The prospect of a different kind of prime-time showcase -- a variety show, say -- also held little appeal. "I would not be interested enough in that format to do what it took to make it work," he said...