Word: cubes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John le Carré, 51, on his hesitation at having his books made into movies: "No writer wants to see his ox turned into a bouillon cube...
...Crimson Sports Cube raced to a 23-2 trouncing of the WHR 8 sports department Saturday at Briggs Athletic Center...
This most visible aspect of the computer revolution, the video game, is its least significant. But even if the buzz and clang of the arcades is largely a teen-age fad, doomed to go the way of Rubik's Cube and the Hula Hoop, it is nonetheless a remarkable phenomenon. About 20 corporations are selling some 250 different game cassettes for roughly $2 billion this year. According to some estimates, more than half of all the personal computers bought for home use are devoted mainly to games...
...home in Woodstock, Ga., that allows different kinds of computers to communicate with one another. So far, its sales have reached $1 million. Jeff Gold of Saratoga, Calif, was only 15 when he created a program in his bedroom that solved the puzzle of Rubik's Cube. A thousand copies were sold before Gold, now 16, came up with a second winner: a program to prevent the theft of other programs. Gold is making $2,000 a week from the proceeds of both creations, and he recently bought himself a new $18,000 Datsun Turbo 280-ZX sports...
...wholly modernist idiom. Hodgkin does to the Indian miniature what Matisse did to Islamic decoration; the source is not simply quoted but transformed. The miniaturist's precision of edge and line is replaced by a fuzzy, affable kind of formal system-nursery-toy versions, almost, of the sphere, cube and cylinder, those intimidating Platonic solids of programmatic modernism. His pigment, however, has an extraordinary range of effect. His work sports in the transparency, density and sweet pastiness that only oil paint can give. Surfeited by color, twinkling with fields of dots (like enlarged details of a Seurat, betokening light...