At the same time " Survivor " all but transformed CBS, long considered the stodgiest network, into, of all things, a haven for young-adult viewers.
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Arnault's strategy is geared toward licensing a house profitably in the age of publicity : garnering attention by pairing the most subversive designers he could find with two of the stodgiest labels in fashion.
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The look of interactive computer games has come to that stodgiest of television formats, the quiz show, and with it has come an unexpected mirror of the anxiety felt by many Americans over computer technology.
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Thomas Hardy's stodgiest novel becomes an energetic two hours of cinema in " Jude, " a virtuoso acting showcase for British up-and-comers Kate Winslet and Christopher Eccleston _ and a first-rate illustration of how to restage classical literature without getting stuffy about it.
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Moscow's rich cultural scene, which found ways to express itself even in the stodgiest of Soviet times, is bursting with cross-cultural experiments these days . Few are quite as audacious as the Almeida Theatre Company's production of Anton Chekhov's " Ivanov, " starring Fiennes in the title role.
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In a season in which the most we can expect from comedians in prime time are dreadful sitcoms ( from Drew Carey, Jeff Foxworthy and others ad nauseam ), Dana Carvey has performed a minor TV miracle : He has actually made 9 : 30 on Tuesday night exciting, on the stodgiest and most stuck-up of networks.
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If there were any doubts that the Internet is reshaping the economy in fundamental and far-reaching ways, they were dispelled this year, as dot-com stocks drove Wall Street, as the stodgiest of corporations embraced the power of the Web and as technology-driven enhancements in business efficiency startled Alan Greenspan and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve.
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But Baker is a man for whom words are oxygen, a man who could take the stodgiest Senate hearing and turn it into a poetic parable, a man who has spent so many hours of his life hunched over the typewriter that even in repose his long, elegant fingers twitch nearly constantly, forever pressing out a line or checking his spelling.
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Just consider Wall Street's $ 26 billion valuation of VerticalNet Inc . about 11 months ago . ( Compare that to Sears, Roebuck & AMP; Co .'s market capitalization of $ 12 billion and Lockheed Martin Corp .'s $ 14 billion, and it's easy to understand why the stodgiest of old-economy executives ran screaming to the Web .)
