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...Moloch (the semiotic god whose worship entailed human sacrifice, usually of the first-born); and the great minds of Ginsberg’s generation, kicked around by the machine age, looking for “jazz or sex or soup,” are sacrificed to the great American dynamo...
...arcade game inspired by pairing the fictional ape King Kong with the muscular, muttering Popeye cartoon character. Expectations were so low for Donkey Kong (and by extension Miyamoto) that it was initially tested in just two bars in Seattle. Donkey Kong's surprise success turned the doodler into a dynamo as he spooled off characters such as Super Mario and Luigi to play on Nintendo's series of game consoles, including the GameCube and handheld Nintendo...
...four young heroes gave kids from 6 to 16 someone to identify with. Disney marketed the film smartly, playing up the Christian aspects to religious groups and playing them down to everyone else. Now Prince Caspian (directed, like the first film, by Andrew Adamson) should be a box-office dynamo...
...transcended the ages. He compiled Japan's most influential and long-lasting anthology of poems: the Hyakunin Isshu (one hundred people, one poem each), also known as the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. For more than seven centuries, these poems have resonated with countless readers. They have also acted as a dynamo of cultural creation - driving later poets to reach for the poetic gold standard they established and propelling generations of visual artists to set down in myriad mediums the arresting images they contain. The poems have penetrated the culture so deeply that some Japanese still play a centuries-old card game...
...erased the Crimson lead at 1:05 remaining in the period to leave the score, again, tied.Caldwell knocked in an unassisted goal to go up in the 4th, 6-5, but Widbin matched him sending the game to the final five a locked contest. After the Caldwell-Muldoon scoring dynamo connected twice, there was little left to do in the two minutes remaining. After Gibbons eeked out a final goal, the score went into the books, 8-7.“A lot of their goals came from a bunch of different things,” La Fiura said...