live, adj. = "(of entertainment) thrilling"

[Dan Goncharoff]

I remember "filmed before a live studio audience". Yes, it's redundant.
DanG

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> I can't swear to it, but didn't we also used to hear "recorded live before a studio audience"?
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> --Charlie
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> At 12/29/2010 01:17 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>>Does "live" customarily include the notion the you're seeing them in "real
>>time" at the very instant the person/ robot/ cyborg activates the switch?
>>My life experience sez no.
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> In the good old days (or in reruns of them), one might hear
> "broadcast live before a studio audience."
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> Joel
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