Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty Harvard students pack into a dorm room; males and females pile on couches and crowd together on the floor, yet no textbooks are to be seen and all is ominously silent. With all eyes focusing on the television screen, tension builds as the group anxiously awaits the opening theme song of their favorite nighttime soap. Bound by their loyalty to Fox soaps, students forget their daily differences, neglect important assignments, cancel dates, and sit through 15 minutes of commercials dedicated to acne wash, tampons, and shampoo...
Back when Bob Barker still had black hair, families were feuding, and whammies were a menace to society, game shows ruled the television screen. During the golden years of gaming in the 1970s and early 1980s, millions of degenerate adults and sick schoolchildren could spend their days on the couch in the living room, watching non-stop game shows on the three major networks from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Sadly, many feel that today's shows fall short of capturing that tacky flair so critical to the classic game show experience...
Strike a flirtily nude pose for a women's magazine. Have a happily public affair with a TV chanteuse 19 years your senior. Tease your screen machismo in lightning banter with Johnny Carson. Make a lot of middling pictures in fast cars. Be an early victim of AIDS rumors. Just about...
...popular with 18-to-25-year-olds, most college students don't have cable. He figures he's performing a public service--and building an even bigger audience for the show. After all, anyone who has seen the grainy PC version knows that it's better on a big-screen...
...everyday strains of daily life also take their toll on students' bodies. Some haul almost half their body weight in their book bags to and from class each day. Others succumb to e-mail addiction, spending hours glued to the computer screen, feverishly typing. Such repetitive strains can all be eased through massage...