Sentences with phrase «of old television»

For example, if a 5 - year - old television was destroyed, the insurance would pay an amount equal to the depreciated value of the old television.

But how effective will these companies be in collecting e-waste in outlying rural areas, where electronic appliance purchase subsidies under the economic stimulus package are creating a huge turnover (and pile up) of old television sets are other electronic products.

Zabrina Parks, who helped Scott with the effort, said she thought of the old television cartoon «Tennessee Tuxedo» and his walrus friend and offered the name «Chumley,» not knowing yet the sex of the mammal.

To this day that memory has an eerie aura for me very reminiscent of an old television show hosted by Walter Cronkite called You Are There!

It speaks of final breaks from the past (the writer of an old television show Walter reveres and partly credits for his survival in Vietnam is cocooned in an ancient iron lung) and of the hopelessness of the future in the old guard's illiterate, mute, criminal, and insolent offspring.

Reminded me of an old television series called, «You Are There».

DEC Acting Commissioner Basil Seggos said in a statement Monday that DEC will provide funds to help municipalities deal with a glut of old televisions and computer monitors.

This is the manifestation of the older television show in your face but immortalized in some great animation.

You may not know him by name, but if you've seen Richard Linklater's Slacker, you probably remember artist Kal Spelletich from his memorable scene as a TV obsessive — not a television watcher but a collector of old televisions, which he places...

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When I was 5 years old, I remember waiting five weeks to get a copy of 40 Funky Hits on cassette after ordering it from a television ad.

Back in the old days of television programming — say, 15 years ago — most standup specials like Black's ran for a limited time on one of the three main cable channels that aired comedy (HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central) before being shuffled off to the archives.

Television networks ran a photo said to have been taken shortly after the crash that showed overturned restaurant tables in the city's old town on one of the first sunny weekend afternoons this spring.

And there's a good chance that the device, which offers old - school gaming for today's televisions, like Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, will be hard to find, based on early pre-orders.

Within the white void of «The Construct,» Morpheus shows him the truth on an old - fashioned television.

Out of respect to the families of the victims and the survivors, and to prevent him from sending any coded signals to his supporters, the 37 - year - old extremist's testimony will not be broadcast on television like the rest of the proceedings, justice authorities have ruled.

In 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted the American Time Use Survey, which found watching television is still Americans» top leisure activity, accounting for the way people age 15 and older spend just over half their available free time — or 2.7 hours — each day.

EASTWOOD: When I did the Rawhide series in the 60s and late 50s we had a lot of wonderful directors, old time film directors that had not been doing that well so they would do television and our television show would come on.

Smith often compares his company to CNN, and in many ways Vice has become the equivalent for many younger viewers who no longer watch traditional television, especially when it uses stale old formats like panels of aging white men debating politics.

By the postwar period, people in advanced societies had long since shed the old, laborious ways to embrace a sedentary duo of desk work and television watching, hopping into private automobiles to shuttle between the two.

«These are tiny, modern - day versions of the old bunny ears that people have used to watch over-the-air television since time immemorial,» quipped one writer recently.

I am able to buy my customers through the companies 38 year old media company through television and radio infomercials to online marketing and more which brings in thousands of customers and contacts every week.

Television images suggested that the surviving tank cars on the Lac - Mégantic train were of the older design.

Wolff's other books include, TELEVISION IS THE NEW TELEVISION, a look at the war between old media and new; AUTUMN OF THE MOGULS, about the men who transformed the modern media business; and BURN RATE, his now - classic memoir of the early internet yearOF THE MOGULS, about the men who transformed the modern media business; and BURN RATE, his now - classic memoir of the early internet yearof the early internet years.

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.

All these new forms of media are constantly forming new connections both with each other and with older media like printing, radio, film, television, telephone, teletype, radar and so on.

While I no longer believe the earth is just 6,000 years old, I still live in the tension of unanswered questions about the universe, and death, and brains, and Neanderthals, and whatever Neil deGrasse Tyson's got to say on public television about the earth getting burned up by the sun or our species going extinct after an asteroid hits.

Like McWethy, Martin belongs to an older generation of reporters who imagined that television would provide them with a way to reach tens of millions of people with stories that shed real and necessary light on the actions of their government.

Among his writings are the following: Christian Apologetics in a World Community (InterVarsity Press 1983); Let the Earth Rejoice: A Biblical Theology of Holistic Mission (Crossway 1983); Christian Art in Asia, (Rodop Amsterdam 1979, distributed by Humanities Press); Themes in Old Testament Theology, (InterVarsity Press 1979); Daniel in the Television Den: A Christian Approach to American Culture (Western Baptist Press 1975; and Rouault: A Vision of Suffering and Salvation (Eerdmans 1971).

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 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.

This means that television is itself becoming a kind of religion, shaping the faith and values of many people in the nation, and providing an alternate worldview to the old reality, and to the old religious view based on that reality, for millions of viewers.

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.

This beast of a man, paid to bulldoze over linemen week after week on national television, sat on my office couch in tears over his seven - year - old son.

And the households of religious television viewers are often made up of older or single persons.

Think of the coronations in the United Kingdom, where the civil head of state is crowned in Westminster Abbey by the Archbishop of Canterbury attended by all the prelates of the church, in a centuries - old religious ceremony replete with choirs, trumpet fanfares and processionals, seen and heard worldwide by millions on radio and television.

For the rest of us, who are too small or too clumsy or too old to play and have to watch from the stands or before television screens, it is not unlike a Latin high mass performed by professionals for the edification and instruction of those deemed by the Heavenly Commissioner unworthy to participate personally.

There are several ways in which religious programs on television may be effective in building the membership of local churches: One is by the addition of new members, the other is by the reactivation of old ones.

His television program, «The Old Time Gospel Hour,» is an edited version of one of the morning services from the church.

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.

Television fulfills a more important role in the lives of older people than it does in the lives of younger people.

Tutored in the skills of shoplifting by his older sister; taught to roll a tight joint of marijuana by his mother's boyfriend; hyperactive, acne - scarred, a Saturday - night drunk, 11 - year - old Raleigh isn't equipped for adapting to a 50 - year - old foster parent couple who are members of the Jehovah's Witnesses and whose idea of indulgence is to permit him to select one 30 - minute period a night for watching television in their living room.

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.

«The future of the media industry will require a long - term program of reform to increase competition and dismantle protections that continue to skew investment away from innovative technology and towards old business models,» said Australian Subscription Television and Radio chief executive Andrew Maiden.

I was 11 or 12 years old; I was watching a lot of Julia Child on television, she was making this soup and it looked like fun.

But all who are old enough to watch television or read Little Red Ridinghood know there can be no suspense in a chase unless the pursued is in some danger of being caught.

The NBA uses The Old Playground for one of its television ads, but to Hornsby the song is about more than basketball.

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.

But 20 - year - old Noah Ngeny of Kenya was running at a record pace — his 3:43.40 that night is now the second - fastest mile in history — so El Guerrouj, in running to beat Ngeny, inadvertently broke the mark before a live television audience back in Morocco.

If you are 21 years old, you have been witness to the emergence of USA Today, ESPN and all those other college football - and basketball - saturated networks, picture - in - picture television, widespread use of satellite dishes, published injury reports, ATMs, the Internet, Jeff Sagarin and Danny Sheridan.

The hands that made him fit belonged to 81 - year - old Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, the Belair Stud trainer, who spent the last days before the race shuffling back and forth between one end of Barn A and his living quarters at nearby Olympia Fields Country Club — sandwiching between trips a flood of radio and television appearances and more than one breakfast and luncheon press conference with newsmen on hand from California, New York, Florida and all stations along the way.