Word: cube
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...Hungarian Horror Our Numbers column [Jan. 30] included an item on a California student who set a new record for solving the Rubik's Cube puzzle: only 11.13 sec. The cube became wildly popular in the early 1980s. Here's an excerpt from our first report on the phenomenon [March...
...Buvos Kocka means Magic Cube, but outside Hungary it is better known as Rubik's Cube, after its inventor, Erno Rubik. THE DEVICE IS ALSO SOMETIMES CALLED THE HUNGARIAN HORROR, SINCE IT CAN INDUCE TEMPORARY DEMENTIA IN OTHERWISE BALANCED CITIZENS ... It looks innocuous enough?a brightly colored plastic widget that could have been designed by Mondrian. It was developed in 1974 by Rubik, then 37, an architecture professor, to give his students greater experience in dealing with three-dimensional objects. It has six sides, each with a different bright color ... The aim of the game is to scramble the colors...
...runaway popularity of the “gangsta rap” aesthetic in the 1990s conferred star status on Cube and enabled him to make the transition from recording studios in South Central to film studios in Hollywood. His first major role was in Singleton’s “Boyz,” and the commercial and critical success of that film proved that Cube was a bankable actor. Perhaps seeking to capitalize upon his initial success, Cube’s more recent projects have been increasingly mainstream (read: spineless...
...result is that Cube is now “safe” enough to stand in for Forrest Gump. I suppose his cinematic development is indicative of a certain type of progress: who could have imagined that a poor black kid from the wrong side of the tracks would make it so big? But this progress comes with a terrible price...
...that Cube is the living embodiment of the American dream, who will remind us of the American nightmare...