Word: carousels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FROM THE WARM, EVERY-NIGHT reality of bed, the wild adventuring can go anywhere: to the fun of a long, jingly poem about a snooty cat, to the soaring fantasy of a ride through the night sky on carousel horses come alive, to the lovingly mapped realism of a Midwestern farm through a season of hay growing. A sampling of this season's best journeys for young readers and listeners...
...Vietnamese into groups of about 60 to be loaded aboard the helicopters that were landing on the roof and in the courtyard. During daylight, officers set off colored smoke bombs to help helicopter pilots locate the embassy. After dark, Herrington rigged up a different system. He found an old carousel slide projector, mounted it on the roof of one building, and had all the embassy's Ford cars parked around the landing zone with their headlights on. Whenever he heard helicopter rotors overhead, Herrington switched on the projector, flooding the landing zone with light...
...best piece in the show, both horribly vivid and weirdly distanced, is the room-size Carousel, 1988. Four motor-driven arms swing on a pivot. From each hangs what appears to be the flayed carcass of a deer or a wolf. (They are, in fact, hard plastic-foam molds.) These casually suspended mock bodies are covered in graphite paint, and they drag on the floor, producing an unremittingly irksome scraping noise and leaving a silvery circular trail behind them, round and round. You don't feel empathy with the dead animals--the molds are too blank to evoke much more...
...break it," he said. With both movies on hold, he returned to the main menu -- a revolving carousel offering shopping, games, sports, news, movies. He entered a computer-generated shopping mall, complete with a white stucco Crate & Barrel store and the curved glass facade of Sharper Image. He visited a Post Office shop that offered next-day stamp delivery and three-hour package pickup. He popped into the Warner Bros. Studio Store, where he ordered a pair of $10 raspberry-colored baseball caps. He visited the video-game area and played interactive gin rummy with the Willards...
...Click on a selection, and the network responds almost immediately. It feels "alive" -- almost too much so. Whatever category you select starts promoting itself immediately, pitching a product or showing a movie trailer. But if you don't like what you see, you can always move on. Hitting the "carousel" button, for example, takes you back to the main menu. There's also a handy "skip forward 10 minutes" button, which turned out to be perfect for finding Elle MacPherson's nude scenes in Sirens -- without having to sit through the movie...