Word: relics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This week's demonstration, staged by General Instrument, marks a victory for those who have argued that the Japanese approach to television design is all wrong, a relic of 19th century technology that dates back to Marconi and Bell. The future, they say, is digital. To survive in a world dominated by digital chips, digital telephones and digital compact discs, the television of the future must speak in the streams of 0s and 1s that are the language of computers...
...moved the program to Burbank, reflecting an industry-wide migration from the East to the West Coast. In 1980 the show was cut from 90 minutes to an hour, creating a tighter entertainment package out of the more free-flowing gabfest that had become, in some ways, a relic of an earlier TV era. (One element that was lost: book authors, who had often been slotted in the final 15 minutes but who disappeared from the show almost entirely.) One by one, competing talk-show hosts -- Merv Griffin, Joey Bishop, Cavett, Alan Thicke, Joan Rivers, Pat Sajak -- fell away. Even...
Resurrection, Relic Cult, and Asceticism: The Early Fifth Century--by Caroline Bynum, Dept. of History, Columbia University. Andover Hall, Sperry Room, noon...
...races, I know he's going to win or fall. Romantic to the end!" At one point, Teruel pointed out to Tomba that they were wearing the same kind of gloves, and Tomba offered to trade. But the banter never got to barter, and Teruel did not obtain a relic from his hero. "I think he didn't know what to make of me," Teruel says cheerfully...
Rather than feeling pride, Choi is furious that his life was a concoction of parental aspirations and that people dismiss his struggles as a relic of a politically incorrect stereotype. In one sweep, he accepts a negative stereotype for all Asian-Americans based upon his own struggles. It is not the stereotype of Asians being pre-meds being grade-grubbing, socially inept anal warts...