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...evening's interview. "Most people aren't really entertained. What they need is they need to watch TV. Entertainment is almost a luxury item." As the day wears on, Seinfeld returns to the subject, this time even more adamantly: "Television is like a flyer somebody sticks on your windshield. Who gives a damn what's on it? It's iridescent wallpaper. Sometimes I think people just like the light on their faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: It's All About Timing | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...forgotten the body language of adult affection. When a doctor speaks to her kindly, she can express her gratitude only by clumsily hugging his face. But she's great at crying: in one scene, her tears squirt perfectly down both cheeks, like the soap mechanism on windshield wipers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MAD ABOUT HER | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...heads-up display projects driving instructions and E-mail notices directly onto the windshield. When the driver says, "Read E-mail," the car reads the messages aloud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Dec. 1, 1997 | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...years ago, Yale weekend was an adventure. With no bus ticket, I jumped on the Undergradute Council bus and sat on a fold-out seat next to the bus driver, strapped in by a two-piece harness, with my face about two inches from the enormous windshield. The next day, our team was heroic in the true sense of the word. Our men of Harvard came back from behind to win 22-21, and living vicariously through them, I rushed the field, driven in part by my blood-alcohol-level, but driven nonetheless. I was back on the same...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Caught Up in Making History | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...today's art market, million-dollar prices are as common as bugs on a bayou pickup's windshield. You need eight figures to make news, and even then it may not work. The early results of the fall auction season--which began last week and will continue through this week--confirm this: one big bang, and not much else. The bang was afforded by the collection of works by Picasso (plus some by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and other American artists) put together over 50 years, on a fairly modest budget, by Victor and Sally Ganz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUCTIONEERS' SLUGFEST | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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