Word: supers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lithgow also starred in 1985's 2010, containing the human-like super computer, Hal. Lithgow laughs at the suggestion that Hal might bear some resemblance to the modern research university which Lithgow manages in the real world...
...Given the fact that it's very hard to get people to watch television for five, six hours at a go unless it's the Super Bowl, how are you going to present the issues to the American people in enough complexity so they can make a rational decision...
...solar professional; he installs solar heating systems in houses. Jim spoke to us in the technical language of solar contracting. He spoke of structural attachment points, insulated thermal blinds, weather surfaces, triple glazed window systems, release temperature, mean-radiant temperature, stick-framing, R-factors, maintenance-free super-insulated maximum-efficiency collectors, and unstratified heat...
...state of California might as well have executed Harris on the 50-yd. line at half time of the Super Bowl -- the two moral constituencies, pro-death penalty and con, cheering or shrieking from either side of the stadium, the federal judiciary hovering overhead like a black blimp. When Harris was finally dead, America saw the postgame show: witnesses to the execution describing how the prisoner may or may not have mouthed the words "I'm sorry" to the father of one of the victims; breathed the fumes; convulsed and drooled; then died...
...lifted by such hits as 60 Minutes (TV's No. 1-rated show), Murphy Brown and Designing Women and also got a big boost from blockbuster sports events like the Super Bowl, World Series and Winter Olympics. But the huge cost of acquiring TV rights to those events means that CBS, despite its victory, will lose money for the season...