Word: roomed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...billion? Yeah, on Wall Street, where it's 1999, and advertising on TV networks is the best way to sell SUVs and six-packs to the masses. In the hearts, minds and business plans of Silicon Valley, however, it's 2005. Most U.S. homes and every last dorm room and office have high-speed connections to the Net; a wired nation surfs an endless array of digital infotainment, and--sorry, Sumner--the '80s-era conglomerates brimming with vertically integrated synergy are about as relevant as rabbit ears. The Viacom-CBS merger "has the feel of a nostalgia purchase," says Paul...
...Within two months, Nintendo, whose portable Game Boy has tripled in sales this year, will reveal blueprints for its next game console, code-named Dolphin. Even mighty Microsoft is said to be toying with the idea of designing its own console--more like a gaming PC for the living room that would run Windows. Says Christian Svensson, editor of the gaming-industry magazine MCV: "The influence they could have over all of electronic entertainment is almost scary...
...offering sexy fantasies (Dawson) or outlandish stories that ring psychologically true (Buffy). What may save Popular is not its pandering to hipness but its willingness to skewer social haves and have-nots and its satiric, Heathers-ish flourishes (the popular girls, e.g., hang out in a velvety school powder room called "the Novak," as in Kim). Freaks, a sweet and funny character study, is probably the "realest" of the bunch and the best fall drama aimed at any demographic. But it is two decades removed from the way teens live now, with good reason: "We couldn't recreate high school...
...left eye. I didn't think anything was seriously wrong--until three days later when the eye puffed up and turned weepy and red. I called Glen Ellyn Clinic near my home in west suburban Chicago, and a couple of hours later I found myself seated in a darkened room across from ophthalmologist Mary Mehaffey...
...Price of a night in a deluxe room at the nearby Waldorf-Astoria...