Sentences with phrase «as old television»

and not as overwhelming as old television sets used to be, people tend to leave them as they are.

Not exact matches

The 4 - year - old company emerged as the successor to News Corporation and deals mostly with film and television.

The 34 - second teaser ad finds Legrand at a quiet dive bar where an old television plays snippets from an earlier Dos Equis ad featuring Goldsmith's «Most Interesting Man,» as a bartender asks, «Think anyone will ever be as interesting as him?»

Product placement is almost as old as television itself.

As at present constituted, radio, film, and television, are burdened to excess with authoritarian characteristics, the characteristics of the monologue, which they have inherited from older methods of production — and that is no accident.

As Heisel points out, the media, especially television, provide companionship to the elderly, particularly those living alone or simply feeling lonely as a result of old age's inevitable losseAs Heisel points out, the media, especially television, provide companionship to the elderly, particularly those living alone or simply feeling lonely as a result of old age's inevitable losseas a result of old age's inevitable losses.

In the U.S., people over 60 view more television than do members of any other age group, including children; older people, various researchers have shown, list television viewing as their favorite leisuretime activity.

Genesis also affirms the fundamental value of each human life, our essential equality as human beings, and our interrelatedness with nature, rather than television «s view that young, white, unmarried males are somehow given a position of power considerably «above» females, older people, and minorities.

Unfortunately these will probably date the book and may prove off - putting to older readers or those (perhaps fortunately) unfamiliar with television programmes such as Project Runway and Pimp My Ride.

The 43 - year - old, who still services as an associate minister since embarking on a television and radio career, told The Mirror she was once asked for a picture as a service was about to commence.

It has been noted already that religious television viewing increases significantly with age and that older viewers demonstrate an increased interest in serious content on television, especially news and public - affairs programming, as compensation for losses of more social sources of information and engagement.

While some attention has been drawn to the Christian critique of sex and violence in television programming, the critique must also include other dehumanizing aspects such as consumerism, limited access for such groups as minorities and older people and the continuing exploitation of children and youth.

Podolski was quoted in the Guardian as saying: «I am a full - blooded player, a street player and I love competition,» the 29 - year - old told RTL television.

And fair Janeane, Sabes's 20 - year - old wife, to whom he signaled through your living room television as if she were sitting right there beside you, for goodness» sake, patting his tummy expectantly in the process of pitching the Kansas City Royals — Motherhood's Team — back into the Show Me World Series.

The 35 - year - old held talks with Rangers boss Harry Redknapp earlier this week following his return from Brazil, where he had been working as a television pundit on the World Cup.

As a ten year old striker, fed up with the failing's of Scottish teams (I am too young to remember Celtic's European triumph), Ian Wright reached outside the television and showed me the way towards a life dedicated to Arsenal.

As the television pundit Gary Neville pointed out after watching his old team - mate mark his own goals milestone, Cristiano Ronaldo dearly wants to be No1 in the world.

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As children get older, what they want causes parents even more anxiety: more television time to absorb popular culture's cavalier attitudes about sex and violence, more computer time to talk with who - knows - who, more freedom to go places without parents, and eventually freedom to date and drive and all the activities that will drive me to distraction.

Parents hope the programmes, which typically consist of brief dialogue and picture sequences, will boost the learning ability of children as young as eight months old, even though the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that youngsters not watch television until two years of age.

Only, as it turns out, people who are sticking it to the man rely on the tools at hand, their cell phones, in particular Blackberries (what I've called «mundane tools» in a piece on political activism), as well as on, well, good old mass media, especially television.

As Stringer was partying in Chelsea, for instance, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn was wooing her LGBT supporters at the old Boom Boom Room atop the Standard Hotel, along with Project Runway's Tim Gunn, Bravo television exec Andy Cohen and designer Isaac Mizrahi, the Wall Street Journal reported at the time.

Since then there has been another round of redevelopment: the vacant rows of terraced houses in Langworthy have been redeveloped for young professionals and the old Salford Docks on the ship canal are the core of the massive Salford Quays redevelopment, which as well as the Lowry Centre includes the new MediaCity which has become the home of BBC «s sport and children «s television departments since 2011.

The only regulation that Kyle could point to is an EPA rule requiring exporters to notify the agency before sending out cathode ray tubes, such as the ones contained in many older television sets.

Although the FCC succeeded in selling the right to use the old television spectrum in an auction last year (it raked in $ 20 billion, twice as much as it expected), it ultimately refused to sell a D block license because it had not been offered enough money by any of D block's suitors, Boyd says.

Leave it to the truly soulless medium of television to bring the zombie archetype full circle with CBS's Babylon Fields, an hour - long series the network describes as a «sardonic, apocalyptic American comedy - drama where the dead are rising and as a result, lives are regained, families restored, and old wounds reopened.»

Just as open - source applications are built out of separately authored modules, the Web makes it possible for one person to dream up a catchy slogan while another tracks down some old television footage.

Other companies, such as Apple, Dell and Hewlett - Packard have similar programs, and Samsung is set to launch a free take - back program for all their electronic products, including old televisions, on October 1.

The home has the usual appurtenances of the writerly life, with crammed bookshelves and curios of achievement, but also the perquisites that a reliable perch on the best - seller lists can confer, such as the Panasonic wide - screen television, the office assistant on call in a nearby room, even the six - inch - thick slab of 150 - million - year - old Jurassic limestone in the garden, an impression of a dinosaur footprint on its underside, that occasionally serves as a writing desk.

A television documentary will follow Museum scientists as they help deduce the astonishing facial appearance of Britain's oldest complete skeleton, Cheddar Man.

But as best - selling author and television commentator Dr. Gail Saltz writes, «Seeing sex in only physical terms is an old - fashioned and ineffective approach that is based on a fundamental misunderstanding, like treating tuberculosis with breathing exercises, which we did before we knew that tuberculosis was caused by a bacterium.

«It doesn't matter your sexual preference, religion, anybody is allow to come and be on the site as long they are for the right reasons,» the 35 - year old television producer says.

If television and movies has taught as anything, it is that you are never too old to fall in love.

The program started in 1980 on radio then in 1983 on television as a 3 - minute block timer on Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation with a Ang Dating Daan (Tagalog for The Old Path) is a religious radio and television program in the Philippines produced by the Members of the Church of God

Top 10 Museums For Geeks ^ Top 10 Museums For Geeks ^ In a way, all museums are for geeks - because geeks love history, science, and the pursuit of About Freaks & Geeks (from Dreamworks Television's Series Description) The universal experience of teenagehood as lived by the regular old freaks and geeks

A native of Garden City, Long Island, NY, who was a mere four years old when he got his start in the film industry as a child model, Masterson subsequently moved to Los Angeles, where he made the leap to television with appearances in numerous commercials.

And though Reiner appeared to retire from directing following That Old Feeling, he still maintained a notable presence in film and television with roles in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven and it's two sequels, House M.D., Hot in Cleveland, and Parks and Rec.Carl Reiner is the father of directors Rob Reiner and Lucas Reiner; his wife Estelle has enjoyed a latter - day career as a night club singer and as a cameo performer in her son Rob's films (she's the lady who says, «I'll have what she's having!»

Later alternating between television and film with features such as Trapped and roles on such high - profile series as Spin City and Malcolm in the Middle, her part opposite Brittany Murphy in the 2003 comedy Uptown Girls found the precocious youngster playing well off of her older co-star.

Kathryn Givney was also a familiar presence on television; one of her best TV assignments was as a reclusive old woman who «kidnaps» housewife Donna Stone on a mid -»60s installment of The Donna Reed Show.

After appearing in television commercials beginning at 11 months old, flaxen - haired Panettiere was cast as a regular on One Life to Live at five.

As the»90s progressed, Foote worked frequently in television on such efforts as Lily Dale (1996), Old Man (1997), and Alone (also 1997As the»90s progressed, Foote worked frequently in television on such efforts as Lily Dale (1996), Old Man (1997), and Alone (also 1997as Lily Dale (1996), Old Man (1997), and Alone (also 1997).

The film was directed by and stars C.K. as a television writer whose teenage daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) begins dating a filmmaker (John Malkovich), who is much older than she is.

It is comparable to Louis the television series in that it makes fun of real life, steals some of his jokes, and is a realistic humor on getting older, only not nearly as funny.

Medium jumps are never an easy thing to do, whether it's today's commonplace practice of remaking an old television series as a film residing between homage and parody, or as in the case of The Muppet Movie, simply bringing characters who found popularity on TV to a cinema audience.

Critically acclaimed for his comedic television ventures along with an enormously successful list of film credits, Apatow has produced such films as: The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Superbad, Pineapple Express, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek, The Cable Guy; and television series: Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, The Larry Sanders Show and The Ben Stiller Show, among others.

No Country for Old Men (2007) won them the Oscar for Best Achievement in Directing, and Best Motion Picture of the Year, as well as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Film Award for best director.

The simple, erratic stagings of old Rankin - Bass television specials are but a distant memory now, as the sharp stop motion here is unflawed and easy to admire.

As the writer and director of the feature films Knocked Up and The 40 - Year - Old Virgin, the producer of the blockbuster comedies Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and the creator of the acclaimed television series «Freaks and Geeks» and «Undeclared,» Apatow has developed a reputation for stories that are equal measures sentimental and unrefined.

If one knows the first film, which openly doubted the need for reviving an old intellectual property (such as the television show upon which it was very loosely based) in the years or decades after it first appeared, this will come as no surprise.

Tapping these amiibo in Super Mario Maker adds a Big Mushroom power - up to your course, allowing Mario to grow big and bust blocks from any direction, as well as adding a retro visual filter to the game, reminiscent of older cathode ray tube televisions.