Prank phone calls and other practical jokes have long been a form of entertainment on radio and television.
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Pooled information, often in the form of personal opinions and reviews, is a freely traded currency, a form of entertainment in itself.
Mary Neubauer, a spokeswoman for the Iowa Lottery, a member of the Powerball coalition, said the game is merely a form of entertainment.
It is a staple for communicating with friends all over the world but it is also a form of entertainment with the many game applications that it offers.
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And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations none of which I know how to work information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.
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"Films are a good form of entertainment during a recession because you can sit back and -- sad or happy -- you lose where you are and you go into the movie, " she said.
Or perhaps, to people so brutalized by their own degradation, the cruelty may even have seemed a form of gruesome entertainment.
Make no mistake about it, when we look back 10 years from now, Steve Jobs will be seen as a pioneer in helping to turn the video game industry into a mainstream form of entertainment.
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The blackface minstrel act was a very popular form of entertainment in 19th-century America.
While the World Baseball Classic was a consistent topic of conversation and nightly form of entertainment for several of the conference attendees, one of the panels offered valid suggestions for improvement.
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In 18th- and 19th-century Europe, operas were a popular form of large-scale, mass-market entertainment.
No other form of entertainment persuades viewers to tune in so reliably at a specific time, nor to watch a show live rather than recording and skipping the adverts.
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At the Sunken Overlook, the 10th Avenue traffic below doubles as the entertainment: wooden benches form a mini-amphitheatre where viewers experience a voyeuristic slice of hectic street life through a four-sectioned window.
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