Word: cuteness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe. Desktop rock could be this year's GameBoy -- or next year's hula hoop. As Gabriel warns, "In the end it's only as good as the content." But the form is in its infant stage, and all babies look cute. The best thing is that right now, it's all promise, no threat. So keep your fingers crossed -- until you pick up that mouse. Interactive rock could be on a roll...
...reality video-game arcade. The joint has acres of casino space -- but the slots and blackjack tables are, astoundingly, quite separate from and mostly concealed by the Disneyesque fun and games. The bells and whistles are more prominent and accessible than the casino itself, and are not merely a cute, quick way to divert people as they proceed into the fleecing pen. The MGM Grand has gone further: it spent hundreds of millions of | dollars extra to build an adjacent but entirely separate amusement park, cramming seven rides (three involving fake rivers) and eight "themed areas" onto 33 acres, less...
Today's corollaries are no more subtle. Police shouldn't torture men suspected of terrorism, because they might not have done it. Soldiers should not rape girls, because they might be as cute as Bambi. Corporate lawyers (Hollywood's new villain, here and in The Firm and The Pelican Brief) should not railroad a man with AIDS, because he might be Tom Hanks...
...Darlene, writer and director Todd Kessler '94 creates a world of odd characters and situations, centered around the owners and clients of two New York dating agencies. With snappy dialogue and solid performances from the two leads, Darlene overcomes some weakness of plot to provide a cute, enjoyable show that capitalizes on the humor of modern life and love...
Regular readers of this column and of Sassy may have noticed that the new issue of the latter, which hit the newsstands yesterday, picks Heavenly for the "Cute Band Alert" box. Assuming you read FM the day it came out, it's safe to say you "read it here first." And (making the same assumption) you might remember that the word of the week this week is "zine," which is a contraction of "fanzine," which was coined sometime in the 70s from "fan" plus "magazine"; the missing "maga" (yes, I'm making this up) stands for "mega," since fanzines...