Word: avatars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...puppeteer's rig to control other people's Rasters on other people's screens, all over the U.S. I can see them -- the wide-angle view from their set-top boxes is piped to a window on my screen. But they can't see me -- just Raster, my avatar, my body in the Metaverse...
...pawing through one of these racks when I sense another avatar, something big and shaggy, sidling up next to me. It mumbles something; I ignore it. A magisterial throat-clearing noise rumbles in the subwoofer, crackles in the surround speakers, punches through cleanly on the center channel above the screen. I turn and look: it's a heavy-set creature wearing a T shirt emblazoned with a logo HACKERS 1111. It has very long scythe-like claws, which it uses to grip a hot-pink cylinder. It's much better drawn than Raster; almost Disney- quality...
...BEANS OF EGYPT, MAINE: This week production begins on the movie version of Carolyn Chute's novel about incest and squalor in trailer-park Maine. It stars avatar-of-hip Kelly Lynch...
...male attitudes and expectations. The cessation of hostilities has allowed for the emergence of admirably modern men with a progressive vision of human relations and a talent for the realization of possibilities. In a highly unscientific survey of friends, Neil L. Rudenstine narrowly beat out Bill Clinton as an avatar of this new male sensibility...
These are our main concerns, and we hope that the new, pizza-peddling avatar of Tommy's will take them to heart. The new management should remain open at least until 2 a.m. and should keep the java flowing...