Yesterday, from his home in Pensacola, Fla., Jones said he had watched only one Olympic boxing match since 1988.
The forces behind "Perfect Couples" (beginning Thursday on NBC) seem to have watched only the first half of the movies to which they are alluding.
And when her son thought his data proved his point, Ms. Galinsky challenged the television sample, noting that he had watched only shows aimed at boys.
He sees teammates who treat him with equal parts reverence and respect, with some admitting to being so captivated by his skills that at times they have watched only him at practice.
He, of course, had watched only the first inning, because the television networks and Major League Baseball (seemingly a wholly owned subsidiary of the networks) have scheduled virtually all post-season games to end hours after any schoolchild's bedtime.
He had watched only about half the show on the couch in the living room when the falling crane crashed through the wall of his roommate's bedroom, Mr. Vigent recalled.
In a recent telephone interview, she conceded that she had watched only "a little bit" of Sharapova's spectacular Wimbledon breakout, a sort of inverse story to her own.
At the end of the study, the perceptions generated by those who had watched only the clips were found to match those of students taught by those self-same professors for a full semester.Now, Dr Ambady and her colleague, Nicholas Rule, have taken things a step further.
It was like coming late to classical music and feeling a newly raging passion for its styles, and for the most extreme transformations of that style (in music, say, Pierre Boulez or Elliott Carter; in movies, Cassavetes and Greaves, whose films I've watched only in the last decade, but obsessively).
