Now we watch in horrified fascination as a speaker plods through every word on slide after slide with 20 lines or more of text on them.
Still, beneath the pop-provocateur veneer, Sachs has always maintained a childlike awe of the golden age of industrial might and technology, most recently in his fascination with space exploration.
The fascination in Britain with Mr. Amis's life and opinions is, however, insatiable and unceasing.
The flirtation turned in a morbid fascination by the time their legal departments had cleared "recession" for prime time.
But I ended up caught in a strange fascination with the bowler.
The fascination in Australia with the auction process was electrifying - not least for me given I was one of those being offered up for bidding!
"In the 1930s, two things happened to arouse fascination of people in the West, " he says.
The city and Korea in general has a fascination with technology and design and is constantly positioning itself on the cutting edge of both.
It adds to the fascination, in a gossipy sort of way, that Philippe Sollers, a novelist and longtime editor of Tel Quel, a learned and esoteric review, has been identified as the real-life model for Jim.
Not just the workings of cities, but of things in general were a lasting fascination to her.
Ford is a writer of personal fascination to many in the literary world.
She has a legion of die-hard fans who have sort of seen to it that she stays current just by their interest in her, their complete fascination with her.
The calm and orderly beauty, the exquisite rooms (formal yet lived in), exert a hushed fascination.
While no evidence has been found of the Essex lion public fascination with big cats in Britain looks set to continue.
In spare moments he indulged his fascination with physics by hurling boomerangs around campus, all the while jotting down formulas to describe their motion.
But his main fascination with Scotland lies in its misty past.
In 1976, Miyamoto, then age twenty-four, was a recent art-college graduate, with a degree in industrial design and an enduring fascination with the Japanese comic strips called manga.
The Grimms grew up in the febrile atmosphere of German Romanticism, which involved intense nationalism and, in support of that, a fascination with the supposedly deep, pre-rational culture of the German peasantry, the Volk.
In an honest, moving and simple memoir which shows self-knowledge without self-indulgence, Ms Laber describes her background as the daughter of a self-made Russian-Jewish entrepreneur in New York who discouraged her fascination with Russian culture.
The show's fascination lies not only in its neatly focused history of British photography, but also in its ability to capture the peculiar essence of an English seaside town complete with fish and chip shops and crowded piers.
This ancient fascination with courtly power has in no way been diminished by monarchy's decline in modern times.
"It would not be stretching a point to suggest that the Global Village...was essentially born with the worldwide apprehension of, and fascination with, the events in Java that began in the summer of 1883, " he writes (italics in original).
Aside from the fact that many of us in the startup community share a general fascination for businesses shifting paradigms, there is a very real reason why an entrepreneur, particularly a first-timer, should care about this online course catalog.
The northernmost city in the Caribbean has been the subject of fascination for centuries with good reason.
Since then, I have kept in touch with these scholars, watching with fascination as their field slowly gained credibility.
Ms. Stephens dates her fascination with hair to her childhood in Kennewick, Wash.
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His fascination with Irish history was reflected in his book The Green Flag, published in 1972, initially in three volumes.
When I talk about people who are tearing up the charts in their 20s and 30s, I get fascination and curiosity.
But Ms. Habegger said no, Mr. Hanson's fascination more involves the natural world in general and how feathers fit into that scheme.
There will be no lead story on ESPN or in major newspapers or a Tebow-esque fascination about the Pac 12-Big Ten collaboration.
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