Word: islands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...premise: 16 Americans are dropped on a rain-forest island off the coast of Malaysian Borneo, alone except for monitor lizards, poisonous sea krait snakes, food-thieving macaque monkeys and 10 camera crews videotaping their every forage. For about six weeks, with as few supplies as if they'd fled a shipwreck, they must scrabble for food, water and shelter by cooperating. Up to a point, that is. Every three days, the group must also vote by secret ballot to expel one or two members--once for each of 13 episodes--until only two remain. The expelled members then decide...
...this William Golding-esque twist that most intrigues producer Mark Burnett, who characterizes the program as "a human experiment." In real life, "you don't always tell people around you whether you like them or not," Burnett says. "By the time every island council comes, there's going to be a very clear statement by each person about whom he or she really doesn't like." The rejects--the Piggies in this reality-TV Lord of the Flies--won't know why they were dumped until the show airs, but Survivor's camera crews will continually interview members about...
...Through their recent elimination of the Long Island Iced Tea, the upscale Casablanca, located next door to the Brattle Theater, has created a massive drink discrepancy amongst the four after-hours haunts. Implemented in Spring 1999, this policy has caused an uproar amongst many college students, who find this inebriating beverage to be a quick bang for their buck...
...reasoning behind this ban, says Casablanca management, stems from the fact that the Long Island is "very potent and very difficult to pour out correctly during a hectic weekend night." Frazzled bar tenders found themselves pouring disproportionate amounts of the drink's four clear alcohols, thus creating a liability for the restaurant/bar...
...credit-card-size slot on a laptop computer; a teeny, 2-in. antenna--so cute!--pops up to send and receive data at 19.2 kbps. That's a fairly pedestrian speed, but if it meant I could do e-mail and even browse the Web while riding the Long Island Rail Road, I'd happily put up with it. Imagine all the cool things I could do, unbound from the desktop...