Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Since those junior high glory days, Putnam hasn't bowled in a league. But, he says, "I get taken to go bowling surprisingly often by students. So I do get to go bowling more often than I used to. But I'm not in a league...
...figure getting a strike and celebrating by leaping around in the air. The figure's dance is intermittently interrupted by flashes of a red X. The sequence holds our attention for a few seconds and then fades back into the scoreboard where a smaller red x appears in Professor Putnam's first frame...
...modest Putnam doesn't gloat over his strike. He simply smiles and addresses the TV screens: "One of the things I described in the book," he says, motioning to the video screens "is that television is such a commodity in our lives, that even when we go bowling, we're supposed to sit here watching...
...baseball fan holds up a sign punning a player's name on one screen, and on the other, is that blinking arrow, now pointing to "FM." A few forgettable moments later, the pins are reset. And while a slightly less enthusiastic computerized stick figure performs in the background, Putnam eases us into his argument about the deficit of social capital...
...pins are pummeled for another round. And after gathering to watch the video figure do another dance, this time accented by a flashing red "\ ," the unfazed Putnam continues with assurances that he is not passing a moral judgment on solo bowlers...