Word: tubefuls
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...front porch, and all normal activity ceased as everybody within earshot rushed to the nearest set for a moment of electronic racial solidarity. If somehow you missed the event, you felt seriously deprived. At a time when the civil rights movement was just beginning, seeing blacks on the tube made us feel more like a part of America. We wanted them to be there even if it meant settling for a demeaning sitcom like Amos 'n' Andy. Anything was better than nothing...
Ours not to reason why. Each of us--the bold first, the timid watching the body language of the bold--scarfs a couple of chips. We feel the need for some six-packs here and a pro-football game on the tube. But no, these are laboratory conditions. Nibble, nibble. We look at one another quizzically, working our lips and jaws...
...time for the British to realize that successful breeding isn't always consistent with "family values." After all, the only humane solution would have been to let Charles run off with Camilla long ago, leaving a test tube of sperm behind in Buckingham Palace. His mom could then have distributed it among hundreds of female volunteers in a kind of genetic Bake-Off--with the throne then being awarded to the most boring and phlegmatic child that resulted. The next step would be to take away the royals' allowances, which amount to $15 million a year for the lot. Princess...
Blood is drawn intravenously through a tube stretching across the room through an opening in the wall, which can be attached to a subject's arm for up to a week. A technician can therefore draw blood regularly without disturbing the subject, even when he or she is asleep...
...WALTERS COULD SUM UP THIS year in one word, what would it be? "Busy." In person, she is as gracious and attentive as she is on the tube. But she is also warier, savvier and funnier than her television persona. "I've had a good run," she says, "but it doesn't seem like I'm working any harder than usual. Maybe I'm just enjoying myself more. My staff is always kidding me about my 'coulda, shoulda, woulda'. Well, I think there's been less of that lately." Does she ever take a vacation? "Yes, last spring I went...