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Grownups, as a rule, don't get it. Which may be why the video-game craze has been seen by most adults -- including the captains of the entertainment industry -- as a dead end. For 20 years they have watched the advent of Pong and Pac-man, the rise and fall of Atari, the arrival of the Japanese, and have dismissed videogaming as a temporary detour far removed from the mainstream of modern American culture -- which is to say, movies and prime-time television...
...decades spanning the New Democrats, "Wall Street," the Disco Craze, the Summer of Love, the Kennedy Assassination, the Silent Generation, World War II, the Big Band Era, the Great Depression, the Roaring Twenties, World War I and T.S. Eliot, Boston has grooved...
...Linda Webb, a Weight Watchers spokeswoman: "The problem in the 1980s was that exercise was ! seen as a chore, beyond the norm. Now we recognize that all we have to do is normal things like walking, but just do it a little faster. It's the difference between a craze and common sense...
...misunderstand. There is still a nuclear problem. There are environmental problems. But there is a difference between a problem and panic. The next time you find yourself in the midst of some national hysteria, remember the tulip craze that swept Holland three centuries ago, an orgy of panicked financial speculation in which land and houses and gold were all traded for . . . tulips. At the mania's peak, a single Semper Augustus tulip could fetch 20 town houses...
...washed beach; the other, buildings burning in a hellish conflagration. This pairing could represent anything from an ecological warning to a meditation on the fleeting nature of happiness. Either way, it shows New Order is willing to raise issues that go a lot deeper than the next dance-club craze. The sustained, chillingly solitary note that ends the album is mitigated by Sumner's impassioned exhortation to feel. After years of mining the bleak landscape of alienation, New Order seems to have discovered the value of its own humanity...