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...VCR were last seen around 6 p.m. on Sunday night...
...their plans were interrupted by an unexpected event: The combination TV and VCR, described as fairly new by residents, was stolen on Sunday night...
...when Greenough dorm committees, such as the peer counseling, intramural and kitchen committees, met in the common room at 8 p.m., the TV and VCR were missing...
Perhaps the ultimate in isolating technologies is television, especially when linked to a VCR and a coaxial cable. Harvard professor Robert Putnam, in a recent and much noted essay titled "Bowling Alone," takes the demise of bowling leagues as a metaphor for the larger trend of asocial entertainment. "Electronic technology enables individual tastes to be satisfied more fully," he concedes, but at the cost of the social gratification "associated with more primitive forms of entertainment." When you're watching TV 28 hours a week--as the average American does--that's a lot of bonding you're not out doing...
...Rancho Mirage, California. Harris' hepcat persona was a fixture on radio in the '40s on the Jack Benny show and, for a time, in partnership with his wife Alice Faye. In 1947 he had a hit song with Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette). Today, he's known to the vcr generation as the voice of Baloo the Bear in Disney's animated Jungle Book...