Word: vcr
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...shoots; nearby, behind safety glass, is one of the original balsa-wood Rosebud sleds from Citizen Kane. "There's also this couch," says Capshaw, "which is Steven Central. He has a bunch of scripts to read, and tapes--casting reels, dailies, bits of animation--that he pops into the VCR. But if one of the kids asks him to build a castle, he's immediately down on the floor, building that castle. The kid runs away, Steven crawls back on the couch and gets back to business...
Sadly, adoption is often not an option; past menopause, it's more difficult than learning how to program a VCR. And 9 out of 10 reasons for having a child have always been selfish--from having an extra farmhand, to all my friends are having kids, to I'm bored with wine tours of Provence. The older the parents, the more serious the decision. What an older mother loses to lower back pain, she gains in serenity and perspective. Only the most determined women, like the Italian mother who gave birth at 62 after her only son was killed...
...need a new VCR to take advantage of your new digital TV, so expect to shell out $500 or so for one of those. Then again, by the time that analog signs off the airwaves, DVD and DVD-R discs will have put the VCR next to the eight-track on the dust bin of tech history, so that's not much of a problem...
...microchips in these devices often depend on electronic calendars and clocks. If you were a VCR and you suddenly thought it was 1900, you might overload just from the resulting identity crisis...
...September 1995, a combination VCR and TV disappeared from the Greenough common room. Later in the year, a bass guitar, jewelry and other personal items were stolen from dorm rooms...