Word: ah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LATRELL SPREWELL Gets mad cash, great game and more applause than Ewing. Ah, New York culture...
...Ah, consumer electronics. Are there any two words in any language that go better together? I think not (especially if you exclude "tongue sandwich"). That's why last week found me happy as a Teletubby on tequila, at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The big news there was that virtually every audio-video manufacturer is selling, or about to sell, an affordable DVD, or "digital versatile disc," player, which will play music as well as movies with a vividness and clarity far greater than that of VCRs playing videotape...
...would do things differently is in the management of egos. I would say the Prime Minister has to devote equal time not only to the tasks of security and peacemaking and economic reform, all of which I did to my utmost, but to the maintenance, shall we say, of, ah, personal relationships...
...think that Steve Martin wrote it [Picasso at the Lapin Agile] with 20/20 hindsight, of course, looking back on the 20th century. One of the most poignant lines of the play is "Ah, the 20th century, the works of artists and musicians dominated the works of politicians," and that's not necessarily true at all, I don't think that's true at all, but it is very interesting, the lines are definitely crossing, scientists and musicians are becoming as important to culture as the people who shape history, the military, and politicians...
...Ah, games! I play a lot of them on my computer, and my current favorite is Age of Empires: the Rise of Rome (Microsoft; $24.95). The original game is more than a year old, but the "expansion pack" that was released a few months ago is shamefully addictive. It's a strategy game: you start out in the Stone Age, and if you manage your resources correctly--building armies, collecting wood, harvesting food--you can progress all the way to ancient Roman times. Just the right amount of strategy and terrific graphics of stuff blowing...