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Brittell and Prescott constructed a telephone hook-up by hanging a string between their facing windows, and her brother worked with Prescott on neighborhood play productions...
Label me a fish: I've swallowed nostalgic TV programs hook, line and sinker [Television, May 6]. Shows such as Laverne & Shirley, The Cosby Show and M*A*S*H were a part of my life growing up. Reunion shows let us escape the pressures of work and home. Our favorite TV characters evoke fond memories and may even stay with us a while. JESSICA SEDA-RUIZ Phoenix, Ariz...
...skull and crossbones on the backs of tapes along with the claim that HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC. If that was the case, then it was the compact disc, which really took off in the mid-'80s, that brought the music industry back to life. Sure, you could hook your cassette recorder up to a CD player, but you couldn't copy that wonderful hiss-and-squeak-free digital fidelity--not yet. So everyone had to buy the Beatles and Beach Boys all over again. Result: a 15-year-long sales boom...
...September 1997 at a meeting of the Honolulu Rotary Club. Keith was in a rut with his writing. After attending the Maui Writers’ Conference two weeks earlier, he worried that his chances of publishing anything were slim, because he had no “special hook or angle.” Bowing his head at the beginning of the meeting, though, Keith heard his fellow Rotarian J. Kenneth Sanders recite a poem he attributed to Mother Teresa. Suddenly, Keith realized that the words were his own, a set of 10 “paradoxical commandments” written...
...Brown, or whatever it was we did before we had the Web. Then Microsoft started giving away Internet Explorer, Mosaic turned into Netscape, and suddenly life was complicated. It was like Coke vs. Pepsi, or Mets vs. Yankees: everybody had to choose. When Microsoft won the browser wars, by hook or by crook (the jury is still out on that), life got simple again...