Word: crispers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arcade games were still found in places other than seedy bowling alleys, and "Pac-Man" had his own T.V. cartoon. Formerly cool Atari was being phased out, and an upstart company named Nintendo was emerging. Even better, they were manufacturing something dazzling and new: 8-bit home video games. Crisper graphics, better sound and enough games to make you dizzy with anticipation...
...Good Will Hunting is a lock, but without the year's most deserving competitors--Eve's Bayou, The Apostle and In the Company of Men--it's a win for style over substance. Titanic should sweep the Cinematography, Art Direction and Costume Design awards, even though L.A. Confidential had crisper photography and The Wings of the Dove had more dramatically loaded sartorials. No gripes with the Art Direction win though; you break that much porcelain and flood your set three times, an Oscar is the least of what you deserve...
...There's definitely room to improve our play," Hill said. "We didn't shoot so well against Lehigh, but by the time the Ivy season rolls around, I'm confident we'll be a lot crisper in our execution...
Woolsey made other improvements as well. He forced CIA analysts to write crisper intelligence reports for the White House. He oversaw plans for cutting almost 25% of the CIA's work force of more than 20,000 by the end of the decade, ahead of the schedule the Administration set for the reductions. "Jim Woolsey was a sincere and decent man who had an impossible task," says Angelo Codevilla, an intelligence expert with the Hoover Institution. "He was a much better director than the CIA was an agency...
...increasingly difficult to operate smaller, older conventional stores when there are other...fresher, crisper stores around," said F. Terry Vandewater, manager of public relations at the Stop and Shop Supermarket Company in Quincy, Mass. "And it was not feasible to improve this...