Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anything is typical, it is a certain intimidating intellect and relentless curiosity, a teeming desire to understand and explore fields unknown to the average "Simpsons" viewer...
...marriages, fatal renunciations, invocations of ghosts and ancestors, aphorisms straight out of a fortune cookie from one of the better Chinese restaurants, The Joy Luck Club and The Wedding Banquet look beautifully alien. But this is all a trick, to entice you with a vision of novelty. The Western viewer shortly, delightedly, discovers tales of universal savor and significance. Only the garnish is regional...
...doubtful whether Horn designed her mechanized sculpture to withstand the wear and tear of continuous running in a museum. At any given time, quite a few of the pieces are not working, and since even the ones that are have lengthy delays between cycles, the viewer spends a lot of time wondering when, if at all, something is going to happen. Then a cam turns, and neat little linkages make a crescent of feathers coquettishly unfurl or propel a row of knives, with sinister sexual intent, into a corresponding row of shaving brushes...
...advance guard of the annual Leonid meteor shower. But none of the University of Arizona students could anticipate the spectacle that was still to come. In the small hours of that Nov. 17 morning in 1966, the fiery meteors began streaking overhead in ever increasing numbers until, as one viewer reported in Sky & Telescope magazine, "the sky began raining shooting stars...
...needn't go far. He should turn to C-SPAN. From the thievery of the House Post Office, to the gratuitous sexual overtones of the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, C-SPAN is a virtual moral dunghill. What sort of an influence must such depravity have on the viewer...