Word: virtually
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...since at least Hill Street Blues. Only recently, thanks to the growth of niche cable channels, has there been room for shows like thirtysomething (Bravo), the talky, baby boom-relationship drama, or Roc (TV Land), the gritty comedy about urban African Americans. A&E and Bravo offer a virtual graduate seminar in quirky drama, from Twin Peaks to L.A. Law to Northern Exposure...
Faced with a virtual cipher at the center of his tale, Irving works energetically to create distractions around the edges. He has some good fun ridiculing Wallingford's employer, calling the all-news outfit "Disaster International" and the "calamity channel," and he does a lively riff on the marathon coverage that followed John F. Kennedy Jr.'s fatal plane crash in the summer of 1999. After a while, though, all this mockery of the excesses of TV news begins to seem a fish-in-the-barrel (or a carp-in-the-teacup) sort of enterprise...
...Erin Brockovich was an aberration. Roberts typically fronts airy romantic comedies or treacly melodramas that might go direct to video if she weren't in them. And still they are hits. People go to see Roberts despite her films, happy to pay for the privilege of being in her virtual presence. They want what she's got--what, seemingly, she is. No matter what this critic may say about her next film, America's Sweethearts, you can bet the plexes will be full...
...Washington, the successful ex-children tend to come unmoored from reality, and to lead a "preponderantly virtual life-simulated life, fabricated life" in which concern about image engulfs everything else...
...fertilized by her brother's sperm. Jeanine used the brother's sperm to ensure an heir to an estimated $2 million inheritance. A boy, Benoît-David, was born on May 14 after fertility treatment in California. The egg donor, an American woman, also bore a child, a virtual twin girl named Marie-Cécile, conceived using Jeanine's brother Robert's sperm. The story caused widespread controversy...