Word: watching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Number of people who logged on to watch the first live Internet birth last week...
...this is a casino, open all day, with high-low dice games, blackjack and bingo. Laid-off workers crowd the tables, spending their last renminbi on a few rolls of the dice. The casino is run by an overweight Hong Konger who wears expensive jeans and a heavy gold watch but doesn't want to give his real name. Neither do his two formidable-looking bodyguards. "I had to put in a lot of money to get this," he says, watching the flow of chips across the dice table, "mostly to pay off the local officials. And they will probably...
...aesthetic question, Is pro wrestling fun to watch? The answer is: Not really. It can evince the rude, flimflam energy of its carnival origins, but as a form of pulp culture, wrestling has far less imagination than a decent horror movie or comic book. If you're desperate for mock terror on Monday nights, stick with Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
...Monday nights, the two rival wrestling organizations--the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling--have shows on at the same time, the former on the USA Network, the latter on TNT. In the past year, the shows' combined Nielsen ratings have risen some 50%, and together they are watched in more than 6 million households. Larry King's audience is about a fifth that size. Taking all telecasts into account, about 34 million people watch wrestling each week...
...signify "desperate marketing tool." Now they gently allude to Generation X, which also means "desperate marketing tool." And even though the skateboard faithful loathe the mainstream hype, they have grudgingly accepted the event. It is, after all, the only venue where skateboarders, banned from their towns' streets, can watch their heroes sign autographs on ABC's Wide World of Sports (ABC, like ESPN, is owned by Disney). "Now when I tell people I'm a professional skateboarder, they don't say, 'There's no such thing.' Instead they say, 'Oh, are you in the X-Games?'" says Tony Hawk...