Word: carpets
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Take the old Xbox's flagship golf game, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005. Put it side by side with the 2006 version, currently a work in progress. The grass in the old version looks like a green carpet; in the new version, each blade of grass is animated individually and sways to its own rhythm. In the old version, trees make crude, round, blobby shadows; in the new version, each individual leaf has its corresponding individually rendered leaf shadow. The play of light on the water hazards is not readily distinguishable from a filmed image. The fidelity is disconcerting...
...itchy feeling is an acknowledgment that the U.S. is the unquestioned superpower both in politics and movies. The festival enjoys and exploits the Hollywood stars whose glamorous renown brings so much free publicity. The slow march of a Tom Cruise or Clint Eastwood up the Grand Palais' famous red carpet, to the click of paparazzi cameras and the shouts of thousands of fans, is cinema's equivalent of a Broadway ticker-tape parade...
...Michael Jackson's defense team] is expected to call a number of famous people to the stand. Joan and Melissa Rivers will work the red carpet in front of the courthouse. Paris Hilton will be there--not because she's involved in the case. She just likes to be seen." --JIMMY KIMMEL...
Moura wakes up at 5 a.m. five days a week to commute to his first job, where he works on his feet all day assembling parts for carpet displays and lamp fixtures...
...over during the National League play-offs for Rookie Left Fielder Vince Coleman, stealer of 110 bases, who was gobbled up by an accidentally loosed automatic tarpaulin. Dusty Rhodes and Gene Tenace may have been unlikely World Series heroes in their day, but fate never rolled out a green carpet for anyone before. "When I stepped into the batter's box," said Landrum, who observed his 31st birthday on the Series' second off day, "I looked at my feet and couldn't believe they were mine." On top of everything else, he is from Joplin...