Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With all this new power, the medium might seem to have a lot of potential, but few game developers last week showed any sign that they were interested in exploring it. The games on display--even on the new systems--were depressingly unoriginal. Most boiled down to a couple of thugs (male or female) slugging and kicking it out, or to various vehicles racing through a maze of one sort or another, avoiding obstacles and obliterating anything that moves. A typical title in this genre: a 3DO game called Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller...
...would recoil at the eggs slowly frying, or rather poaching, in oil on top of a clay stove in Velazquez's An Old Woman Cooking Eggs. But what an amazing act of skill the picture itself is, done in 1618 by a 19-year-old boy who wanted to display his total control over surface texture, form and light, from the transparency of the oil in which the eggs swim to the knife's curved shadow on a bowl to the marvelous fugue of circles and ellipses, melon and cooking vessels, that fills the lower third of the canvas...
...Republican Party's nomination for President of the United States, and as such he has faced many protests by pro-life members of his party. At Friday's speech, members of two official student organizations, the Harvard Republican Club and the Harvard-Radcliffe Alliance for Life, attempted to display banners expressing their opposition to Specter's views. These banners were not offensive in tone; they read "Lincoln's Party Will Never Abandon the Unborn" and "America Votes Pro-Life '94-'96." They were hung silently and without disruption in front of the protesters' own seats. They were hung in such...
Several paintings by local artist Blondel Joseph, who was born in northern Haiti, were on display in the Lyman Common Room at Agassiz House, along with other paintings, including depictions of the refugee camps at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...
...McNamara to admit his failures is a display of intellectual honesty unmatched by any other senior policy maker of the time. McNamara's courage in assuming this burden has gone largely unnoticed before those who can never forgive him for prosecuting the war and those who see his confession as one more betrayal of the heroic sacrifice of our nation's veterans and war dead...