Word: rewind
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Star Wars" has been the defining cultural entity of my entire existence. I've angrily pitched a remote control across the room during yet another viewing of the trilogy when it didn't pause or rewind to the piece of information I needed. No longer. Now, thanks to some good person at National Public Radio and the Ballantine publishing group, the radio script is mine to peruse in the peaceful sanctum of my own room, and in some ways it's even better. It has truly made my Millenium...
Other pilot projects are primarily technology trials. In GTE's TV trial in Cerritos, California, for example, engineers tested a video-on-demand system using VCRs preloaded with tapes that allowed viewers to pause, fast-forward and rewind from remote locations. But to keep the technology and cost manageable, the service was made available only to two homes and a pair of elementary schools...
...Rewind the tapes to Opening Day at Fenway. Despite Roger Clemens looking more like Eric Clemons (from channel seven sports), everything went pretty well on Monday...
...existing child. Plus there is already a thriving market in Third World kidneys and eyes. Is growing your own really so much worse than plundering the bodies of the poor? Or maybe we'll just clone for the fun of it. If you like a movie scene, you can rewind the tape, so when Junior gets all pimply and nasty, why not start over with Junior II? Sooner or later, among the in vitro class, instant replay will be considered a human right...
Also, by now I know all my hold-out objects inside out--how to coax my old lamp to light, how to retrieve the rewind button when it falls into my tape player. I can't find jeans that fit me as well as my old ones do any-more. They've adjusted to me and I to them, to the point where we fit each other perfectly...