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Word: setups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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HASCS then revised the setup of the machines to only allow Eudora users to check their mail every 15 minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: E-Mail Problems Plague Campus | 12/5/1996 | See Source »

...that some people (reluctantly) voted absentee, that some people (reluctantly) registered in Massachusetts and that some people (reluctantly) aren't voting at all. I haven't run into all that many passionate people, certainly not anywhere near as passionate as my eighth grade class was about out mock polling setup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Building That Bridge | 11/5/1996 | See Source »

...unusual (and highly improper) spectacle of a tax-exempt religious institution appearing to endorse a political party. After the lunch, a group of Asian businessmen reportedly donated $140,000 to the D.N.C. Several contributions were given in the names of monks and nuns, despite their vow of poverty. The setup was apparently designed to ensure that the foreign donors' names would not appear on D.N.C. lists. A woman named Man Ya Shih, who is connected with a branch of the temple in Texas, told reporters that she was approached at the fund raiser by a "Democratic activist" who gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FOREIGN FOUL-UP | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...stink. The first version was a strained attempt at something resembling '30s screwball comedy: Danson and Steenburgen finalized their divorce in the opening scene and were back at adjoining desks the very same day; when Steenburgen offered to quit, she was made managing editor instead. Even if the setup had been more plausible, the show proved how unfriendly TV is to stylized screwball comedy. Viewers don't want to be distanced by brittle, rat-a-tat comedy patter; they want comfortable characters they can relate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: INK-A-DINK-A-REDO | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...event, the ideal mate is practically no more, which may be just as well since the ideal anything is always a setup for tragedy. But what has replaced this cultural item is not much more attractive. It is, in a sense, the ideal of the unideal. The assumption behind television sitcoms contemporaneous with Vertigo was that the husbands and wives--in such shows as Father Knows Best and The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet--were perfect for each other. They had their ideal mates; that's why they were married. The assumption behind current shows like Friends and Seinfeld is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

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