Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sales. There are more than 15 million U.S. homes with both personal computers and school-age children; that figure is expected to double by 1998. "More and more parents see computers as something essential for their children's education," says Jean Cho, a manager of learning programs for software giant Microsoft...
...just three films, Dean took America along with him. He walked into Hollywood and with East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant created a trilogy of youthful alienation. Then, at 24, he crashed his Porsche Spyder 550 on a California highway and died. That was nearly 40 years ago, and it marked the birth of Saint Jimmy, Punk Martyr. His life and death have inspired films (September 30, 1955), plays (Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean) and dozens of songs. Visits to Dean's Fairmount gravesite have become as much a part of celebrity...
...game of the week, allowing fans to become part of a countrywide community again. In Seattle, whose domed stadium had been closed for a month when ceiling tiles fell into the stands, the town burghers came to the radical conclusion that baseball is an outdoor game; they requisitioned a giant can opener and removed the dome entirely -- and with the mood upon them, they replaced the Kingdome's fake turf with natural grass. Some concession stands even tried putting real meat in hot dogs, but the fans rebelled. The experiment was curtailed...
...Rosalie overshadows the direction and even the music with stunningly ugly and capricious costumes. At a press conference she explained that since no one has seen a god or a giant or a dragon, she had to create them from her imagination. In fact the sources are painfully clear. Some influences are evidently classical -- warriors all wear plastic breastplates. Unfortunately they suggest Jean-Paul Gaultier's Paris more readily than ancient Athens. More striking are the costumes containing Oriental references. They make the wearers appear larger -- read fatter -- than they are, a particular pity with a fit and youthful-looking...
...those who attended the original Woodstock, it was possible to imagine that they were present at history's largest convergence of the privileged few, the hip minority. Of course, they saw it as the birth of Woodstock Nation, a giant step toward the hipping of the world at large...