Word: semi
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...bubble wrap itself, not just the bags. Young was already buying the stuff for her own packing needs in 750-ft. rolls. She just increased her order. By a lot. And she got a little system going. Since 250-ft. units sold best, every roll that came off the semi had to be divided into three. So she laid an old card table on her living-room floor, its legs sticking up. She put a roll of bubble wrap on one leg and rerolled it onto another, cutting off swaths of 250 ft. Before long, she was shipping...
...Jeffrey Tambor, who played Larry Sanders sidekick Hank Kingsley, is there looking tan and engaged. He proudly introduces a beautiful Polish girl as his fiancée. He has shaved off his trademark moustache, perhaps because his semi-bald-head-and-moustache look has been stolen by that strange quasi-therapist who crops up daily on "Oprah...
There are a handful of celebrities among them, but overwhelmingly, bus people are ordinary. They are mostly married couples over 50, either semi- or fully retired. The one attribute that distinguishes bus people from the crowd is that they are obviously rich enough not to worry about tossing away money like bun wrappers...
Ultimate TV's supposedly universal remote didn't fare much better. It was bulky, sluggish, overly complicated and couldn't even be made to turn on my TV. I missed TiVo's slim little clicker, which recognized the TV semi-automatically. And I really missed its thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons...
...late-night comics, and even reality shows like Survivor and dramas like The West Wing. The true culprit may be an overly cautious development process. "Networks give writers development deals and then interfere with development," says Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld, who last fall debuted the discomfitingly funny, semi-improvisational Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO. "Ultimately, anything not in their formula scares them." That formula--set-up, joke, canned laughter, repeat--might as well be encoded...