Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Staff Writer Richard Zoglin, who wrote the main story as well as a story on the industry, has owned a VCR since 1980. For him it is primarily a professional tool: he has been writing about television for nearly ten years. Zoglin was the TV critic of the Atlanta Constitution for four years before joining TIME in 1983. "At first I didn't want to own a VCR," he recalls. "There is so much on TV, and there are only so many hours in the day. With a VCR, I thought I'd go crazy trying to watch...
Knowing this, it's difficult to watch the Huntington Theatre's season-opening production of Twelfth Night without expecting the unexpected. The question never really is whether the tool is right, but rather just how much absurdity will be suffered before his wisdom resonates to the others on stage. Despite this predictability, Twelfth Night is anything but a tedious rehashing of tried and true wisdom. The actors are dynamic, the performance is lively, and even the venerable cliches seem to come alive with freshness...
...portrait of a man, woman, and a coyote, and midget actress Zeidah Rubinstein of Poltergeistian fame holding a ruler and magically shrunken sofa. Despite all this ingenuity, the Red Couch never manages to attain true metaphoric nirvana, but it manages to reach the state of a truly useful photographic tool for two talented photographers...
While this mysterious plant may seem to inspire only nature lovers, the fern, which can grow virtually anywhere, is not only a key tool in basic science, but is rapidly gaining a foothold in areas ranging from industry to medicine...
...provide an internally repressive force to control the populace; second, to serve as a vehicle for indoctrination of most young Nicaraguan men and women, and for indirect indoctrination of older Nicaraguans through frequent drills, rallies, and "defense alerts" against potential U.S. invasion and finally, to be used as a tool of aggression against Nicaraguan's non-Marklet neighbors...