Word: watching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just bought a DVD player and can't wait to watch favorite flicks like E.T. and Gremlins, better not disconnect your dusty old VCR. Although there are nearly half a million DVD machines in U.S. homes, STEVEN SPIELBERG is keeping his entire film library--including pictures produced by his company Amblin--off the format. Some DVD boosters think Spielberg is resisting because he favors a sonics alternative made by Digital Theater Systems, a company he partly owns, which has not been embraced by major hardware manufacturers. The director's spokesman says he's merely waiting for millions more consumers...
...Other universities'] feedback from thestudents is that they have enough to do withoutwatching TV," the study says, citing data fromMIT, Brandeis, Tufts and Babson. Those that dopause to watch, according to the study, fearprocrastination since, "cable made it too easy[for TV] to be a distraction...
Still, Louis C. Bevilacqua '98 says he and hisroommates watch cable often--"whenever I'm not atclass or playing sports...
...probably watch it too much," says RunaIslam '00. "And it's too expensive...
...conference will kick off tonight with a Keynote speech by Professor Akira Iriye, after which conference goers can watch the film "A Taxing Woman Returns" while eating green tea ice-cream...