Word: simpler
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...with a new board and chairman (former Secretary of State Alexander Haig was once a director), has said it wants out of the in-flight-entertainment business, a desire repeated at the company's annual meeting a day after Swissair's announcement. Company executives say the airlines want cheaper, simpler systems, and the market has been depressed because U.S. regulations bar gambling on flights that take off or land in the U.S. That means no passengers on Swissair 111, which left from New York City's Kennedy airport, were swiping their credit cards through the system to play the slots...
...simpler terms, Pleasantville is about two semi-cynical '90s teenagers who get zapped--via the admittedly silly means of a magical TV repairman played by Don Knotts--into a black-and-white '50s TV show called "Pleasantville," reminiscent of Ozzie and Harriet. Once there, the brother and sister try to play along with the "Honey, I'm home!" fakeness of the town, but they can't withhold all of their real world sensibilities. As the ideas they bring with them (art, sex, danger) leak into the town, color starts appearing on roses, on houses and eventually on people. Not knowing...
Although seeking out one of these establishments may seem daunting, in reality it is simpler than one would imagine. Lanes and Games, the largest bowling alley in the Boston area, is just a paltry 10 minute walk from the Alewife T-station in Cambridge. This grand dame of a bowl-o-rama offers two floors, 40 lanes and two different types of bowling options--10 pin and the New England phenomenon known as candlepin. Deodorized rental shoes, greasy communal bowling balls, fuzzy multi-colored walls and pink plastic lane dividers make this bowling establishment a palace where tackiness reigns supreme...
...poetic experience, Koch dismissed the postmodern literary theory which has been the center of academic pedagogy for the last three decades: "As a primary approach to a work of art, it doesn't make any more sense than as a primary approach to swimming." He held instead that a simpler, more casual approach was a better way into the poetic experience, claiming that "writing poetry should be a little like being at a party. You dance, you drink, you flirt, and you don't have to come to any conclusions...
Technology was supposed to make our lives simpler. Instead we're stuck with 40-lb. monitors, beeping cell phones and a rat's nest of cables. Now JVC and Sharp are making truly simple handheld devices for sending and receiving e-mail. Users just type a note, dial a toll-free number on any phone, then hold the device up to the mouthpiece while short, modemlike screeches indicate that messages are being transmitted. Available this fall, JVC's $100 HC-E100 and Sharp's $150 TelMail require a $10 monthly...