That may be in dispute — a sizable portion of the enormous crowd left early, perhaps turned off by an extended pop-gospel version of Sarah McLachlan's "Angel" — but he was brilliant in the act of claiming squatter's rights.
Then as you fall asleep, they adjust again, perhaps turning off completely.
Perhaps turning off the inner-critic is what's needed most.
The tone of the campaign turned off, and perhaps turned away, many voters.
Fridges need not run constantly to keep their contents fresh, for example; clever ones might perhaps turn themselves off during peak demand periods.Yet bill-payers will probably find it creepy to hand outsiders control of their appliances.
When (or perhaps if) "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" opens on March 15, it will be a day of emotion and fulfillment for that long-delayed musical's cast, creative team and producers, and also for Jackie Mason.
As it turns out, once the sperm cells within one of those grains fertilizes an egg, other pollen grains stay away, perhaps because the plants turn off the signal attracting the packets to that cell.
Then again, perhaps the correspondent should turn off the spell-check on his word processor.
Perhaps it's time to turn off the television reality shows, cancel the subscription to celebrity gossip magazines, and take a few moments out of the day to be conscious of the effect our attention -- positive and negative -- has on the people around us.
This was, perhaps, a nod to "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," the mega-musical that Taymor directed, and from which she was ousted, amid soaring costs, technical glitches, and cast injuries.
