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...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...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: Spring Cleaning | 4/8/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economics of Cloning | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Something Old, Nothing New | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

...remote-control device being launched nationally this week by Voice Powered Technology, eliminates button pushing almost entirely. Just bark commands into the microphone -- channel number, day, time -- and the machine does your bidding. A viewer can call out commands for a variety of other VCR functions as well, from "rewind" to "zap it" (whiz through the commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Anybody Work This Thing? | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

...thought of doing theater, I felt, 'why do that when I can be so much more powerful manipulating film as a director,' whereas theater is only there for a second, but [at the same time] that's the great thing, that transitory moment, anything can happen, you can't rewind it, or freeze frame...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Interpretations of Hans Canosa: Talking Theater With a Student Director | 3/19/1992 | See Source »

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