Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suddenly hotter than ever. Sony and Nintendo have lowered prices on their current machines to just $99. And as retailers race to supply customers with Sega's Dreamcast, industry leader Sony will be unveiling more details on its PlayStation II in Tokyo. Within two months, Nintendo, whose portable Game Boy has tripled in sales this year, will reveal blueprints for its next game console, code-named Dolphin. Even mighty Microsoft is said to be toying with the idea of designing its own console--more like a gaming PC for the living room that would run Windows. Says Christian Svensson, editor...
Hamlet's old man may have set the standard for stage parents when he swore his son to a career of revenge, and screwed up the boy's life royally. Until recently, the definition of a stage parent was he or she who attempted to satisfy personal ambitions by directing the course of one's progeny, usually toward hell. Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall was driven mad by his father's desire to play vicarious baseball. For Gypsy Rose Lee's obsessed mother, everything was coming up roses "for you and for me," but mostly...
...shabby for someone whose first post-graduation job was working as towel boy in a German...
...definitely got my foot in the door at Microsoft," he writes in an e-mail message. "I'm pretty sure it wasn't having a one-day towel boy item on my resume that aroused Steve Ballmer's interest...
...boy, was he. Murphy said Linden "certainly will get a series," which is like telling a starving man he can have a bite. Linden can't be very happy being like Chris Rock, begging for just...