Word: grails
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...real demographic grail for any game publisher is, of course, girls. And although females have historically been largely impervious to the charms of video gaming, Nintendo has made inroads even there, with products so offbeat that they barely qualify as games at all. In Nintendogs, the object is to raise and train a cute puppy. Electroplankton can only be described as a game about farming tiny singing microbes (surely every woman's dream?). In Animal Crossing, you take up residence in a tiny cartoon town where you plant flowers and go fishing and design shirts. You can visit other players...
...harmonica. Fortunately for the hearing-impaired, there is always some kind of slapstick comedy playing at a volume between blaring and deafening. Secondly, trying to navigate your way through the human minefield to the bathroom located in the back of the bus is more difficult than finding the Holy Grail. When the personal lights go out and guys start stretching out under seats, across aisles or anywhere else they can escape their small cramped seats, things get interesting. At this time, the random painful screeching and incomprehensible cursing begins as overlooked players lying on the floor are frequently stepped...
...best seller" [March 27], on how The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown's court testimony in the copyright case against him could be read as a blockbuster how-to: When I read his book, I enjoyed it greatly - but its close relation to Holy Blood, Holy Grail became increasingly obvious. The name of Brown's character Teabing is an anagram of the last name of Michael Baigent, one of the authors of Grail. A sixth step to a best seller? Frits Sollewijn Gelpke Vorstenbosch, the Netherlands All Wet In "around the corner" [march 20], your forum of thinkers...
CLEARED. DAN BROWN, 41, author of The Da Vinci Code, of copyright infringement; by London's High Court. Authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh had claimed that Brown had copied the "central theme" of their nonfiction book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. Both books propose that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a child and that their bloodline lives on today...
...falsify[ing] the figure of Christ" on its way to becoming one of the best-selling (40 million copies) adult novels in history; of allegations that he lifted a theme--that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a child--from another book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail; in a verdict by Britain's High Court that clears the way for next month's release of the film version of the book, starring Tom Hanks; in London. Brown, who acknowledged reading Blood during his research, called the charge "utterly without merit...