Word: platformization
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...Sure we want to get the social theme," says "Family" Writer Alan Ross, "but the show is a half-hour comedy on commercial TV, and if it's not funny you might as well be on the lecture platform." As George S. Kaufman pointed out, speaking of Broadway, the savage moralizing of satire is what closes at the end of one week; sitcoms must go on week after week. Acknowledging this, Yorkin and Lear are entertainers who brandish the weapons of satire but use them sparingly. Their Bunkers and Sanfords are sheep in wolves' clothing ? domesticated in every sense from...
...once you'd become sentimentally attached to the blasted thing. This was based on conversations with Takeshi Yazawa, Sony's Vice President of Entertainment Robots, and an AIBO guru. Yazawa talked in very vague terms about his pup's long term future as an entertainment and information platform; you might take him in the car with you and ask for directions, he said, or have him take pictures of the family with the nose camera and send them to Grandma wirelessly over the Internet...
...union with long lists of rules that prevented that kind of synergy. Chrysler parts were not allowed in Mercedes cars, for instance--out of fear that the luxury brand might somehow be cheapened. That stance has since been relaxed. Schrempp still insists, however, that "Mercedes will never do a platform exchange with Chrysler...
...There were other diversions: although I missed Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott's left jab at a protestor in Wales, who threw an egg at him, I did catch the male streaker who jumped on the Lib Dem's final rally platform wearing only a party...
...girl in six-inch platform boots is hanging with her friends on a Catholic school stoop in Chelsea, New York City, watching a gaggle of boys playing hacky- sack on the street. As the sun sets, the group is joined by a boy wearing a striped, bright knit hat; a young man in a button-down shirt; a graphic designer - dozens of young New Yorkers of all shapes and sizes. As 9 p.m. approaches, they file into the gymnasium and flop into hard, brown plastic chairs arranged in the center. "Hi, I'm Andrew and I'm an alcoholic," says...