Word: charioteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your mission from the gods, should you choose to accept it, is to fly a hurtling chariot past crashing boulders and evil goblins to win the Race for Atlantis. It may be just an optical illusion, but the new attraction at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace is a real breakthrough, the first ride to marry the computer-generated gyrations of a state-of-the-art motion simulator with the immersive wide-screen splendor of an IMAX film. For $9.50, racers wearing 3-D headsets are enveloped in fog and 14,000 watts of digital sound for 6 min. of stomach-churning...
...true reason for that empire's fall--which, it could be argued, was not decadence, Christianity or post-orgy bulimia but rampant sports mania. At the height of the empire, the stadium was the centerpiece of every Roman town, dwarfing mere housing and temples. Loyalty to the chariot-racing leagues, with their colorful banners, eclipsed all political passions. When the barbarians attacked the gates of the Roman city of Hippo, no one much noticed because the groans of the dying soldiers on the wall were almost drowned out by the roar from the stadium...
...have been put into orbit [NOTEBOOK, May 5] reminds me that according to Jewish tradition, the Prophet Elijah is already there. Just think, it took the Celestis firm and a 20th century rocket to accomplish what Elijah did thousands of years ago with a whirlwind and an old-fashioned chariot. WILBUR F. ENSEY Meadowlands, Minn...
...models are in the showrooms--not cars, but jets for VIPs and CEOs. Business is booming in the $2 billion executive-aircraft industry. The newest chariot, rolled out last week, is Bombardier's Global Express, which will compete with Gulfstream V and Citation X. Fly one to your next downsizing...
...Lord is there, in a version that transcends even Jones' rapturous solo. Steal Away and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot are played with a kind of hushed delicacy, much as written, although Haden says there were "a couple of times we looked at each other and said, 'Forgive us, Lord, for that flatted 13th.'" They blow away all the encrusted sanctimony from We Shall Overcome, rediscovering the splendor of its pride, and find a perfect ecumenical grace in Danny Boy. "Initially I was a little apprehensive about the format," Jones admits. "We were unsure as to how people would accept spirituals...