Entertainment

In this lovely land of corrugated cartons and plastic bags, we want our entertainment packaged neatly ... an attractive label on the outside, a complete and accurate detailing of contents ... no loose ends, no odd parts, nothing left out.

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RIOT, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

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There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.

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Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer 'waste' time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

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Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.

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Multimedia As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on

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Why not say it I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering... for me... And I loved it.

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