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...This week is TV-Turnoff Week, which was created by a nonprofit group called the TV-Turnoff Network - a group that in its eighth year, being generous, is only 1/52 toward its goal. I felt it my responsibility as a journalist to play Russian space monkey for you, and test drive a TV-less week seven days before the real thing starts on April 22. To get the rules straight, I called the TV-Turnoff Network, where spokesman Frank Vespe nixed renting movies, playing videogames and taping this week's shows for later viewing. Reading TV Guide, however...
...TUESDAY, DAY 4: Desperate, I investigate the TV-Turnoff Network's suggested coping techniques. One of them is to "learn something new about your grandparents." I call Mama Ann and tell her about my project and how TV-Turnoff Week asked people not to watch television for the week. "That's not nice," she said. When I pressed her for info, she said, "I play canasta. What else? Nothing much. At my age, you want me to find something exciting?" No, but I wasn't letting her go. Finally, eager to get me off the phone, she confessed that...
...After a week, I'm not sure what the TV-Turnoff people are trying to prove. It's not like reading is so great. The Top 10 shows are better written than the best-selling books. Fighting the most popular storytelling medium is not only a losing battle and horribly snobbish but unsocial too. The Osbournes and Survivor bring us together and define us as a culture. Hey, better that than Nora Roberts...
...address in the hills above Pasadena. I take five freeways, three major thoroughfares and a spiderweb of smaller and smaller streets to get there. But I never do, because the turnoff listed on my map as Country Lane--two turns from my destination in a cul-de-sac--is plastered with signs reading PRIVATE DRIVE DO NOT ENTER NO TRESPASSING ARMED RESPONSE. I seem to be about half a mile from my goal, well beyond the range of a wireless-access point, and--communitarian spirit notwithstanding--I am not feeling encouraged to go the rest of the way. This seems...
...decide to have our date near where she was born. It isn't the most romantic of spots. In fact, the industrial park outside San Diego is kind of a turnoff. In the middle of the 700-sq-m Realdoll factory, seven barrels cradle what can only be described as human-back half-molds. Abyss won't let us photograph certain parts of the process for fear that industrial secrets will be revealed (and because a visual reminder that your girlfriend has a frame inside that looks like a lawn chair could spoil the mood. Unless your tastes...