Mr. Lang said homeowners often converted extra bedrooms to home offices or entertainment centers, examples of what he called "the genius Americans have in finding new uses for a room".
You could have one desktop for work and one for entertainment, for example.
Entertainment, for example, represents about half of the searches on MSN, according to Mr. Silverman.
Co-ordinated coverage of sport, the weather and entertainment, for example, would be beneficial too.
They can be used for art installations and entertainment: for example, mapping underground ancient Rome for the BBC.
Successful city centres can offer a mixed experience in a way most shopping malls can't, for at their best they mix entertainment (for example, decent restaurants), top-end sales (boutiques, antique shops), and services (hair salons).
The bonds issued by Harrah's Entertainment, for example, were trading at 16.5 cents on the dollar, indicating investors' belief that the company was drawing closer to a potential default.
As for the "vast wasteland" debate, at times it feels as if the balance has shifted so far toward a reflexive cynicism (about torture as entertainment, for example) that it's difficult even to talk about the subject — at least, without getting called a Margaret Dumont.
Ms. Cusack, who has done her share of voice-overs for children's entertainment (for example, she was Jessie the cowgirl's voice in "Toy Story 2") said in a telephone interview from Chicago that an enticing reason to work on "Peep" was its focus on "the essentials".
Most music outfits are owned by entertainment giants (example: Vivendi's Universal Music Group), so comparisons are hard.
