Word: tuned
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...classes with the TV on and muted. That way, whenever something interesting comes on the screen (like a touchdown or the opening credits of JAG), I can turn the sound on and put the book down. It is because of this nasty habit that I need you to tune my television set to the Science Center network: 24 hours a day of high-level physics lectures on tape, with videos of baboons copulating during prime time and Tom Synder on at 12:30 a.m. (the lowest-rated of SCTV's programs). Again, some would ask why I need to have...
...slip through the cracks." And then you're free! Fame will come with time; it's a tradition now. You've got some pretty good odds. How many famous Yale non-grads can you name? Exactly. Go for it. After all, wasn't it a Harvard professor who said, "Tune in, turn on, drop...
Another catchy tune--but much harder to convey in writing--is one in which the players simply spell out Harvard or Crimson in a specific rhythm as follows: "C, r, i-m-s, o-n, C-r-i-m. s, o, n-C-r, i-m-s-o-n." It's better if you just hear...
Also from the Stauffer-Bowes collection--and developed during Harvard hockey games--are any chants sung to the tune of Camptown Races. One example, popular when facing Yale, is: "Blue's the color of mold on cheese...
...cable-TV customers--a full two-thirds of American households--may get a sinking feeling of another sort if they try to tune in. Cable companies are refusing, for now, to carry broadcasters' HDTV signals, saying information-rich HDTV channels overtax their systems and will force some existing cable channels off the dial. Viewers who want decent reception, therefore, will have to buy clunky, old-fashioned TV antennas if they plan to pull in digital broadcasts. Both sides hope to resolve the matter, but for the foreseeable future, "there will be a lot of finger pointing going on," says Torie...