Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Flight sims and air-combat games like LucasArts' new Shadows of the Empire: Battle for Hoth, shown above, use force feedback to the fullest. Gamers can feel the resistance as planes pull out of dives, the recoil from missile and machine-gun fire and, for those less fortunate, the shattering impact of an unexpected crash...
...rich are different; they kill with epigrams. In the Pascal mansion just before Thanksgiving dinner, Mother (Genevieve Bujold) says, "I'm going to go baste the turkey and hide the kitchen knives." When daughter Jackie-O (Parker Posey) is asked what a gun is doing in the house, she shrugs: "Just being gunlike. Gun-esque. Gun-onic...
...MacLeod play, is a place of infinite possibilities and their fatal consequences. If two isolated children are attracted to each other, they'll satisfy their urge by any means necessary. If a fellow (Freddie Prinze Jr.) wants to have sex with his brother's fiance, he will. If a gun shows up in the first reel, it will surely go off in the last. Is this tragic? Not for the Pascals. Just trag-esque. Trag-onic...
...There's no smoking gun as far as the law goes," she says. "But you watch hour after hour of this, and it becomes apparent that this is really disgusting. It's just disheartening to watch...
...stitch together a moral politics by introducing legislation that resonates with a variety of groups. They appeal to the middle class with promises of tax credits for school-related spending, to the lower class with promises of inner-city development packages, to soccer moms with promises of child-proof gun locks. The other social institutions ought to move now, before the next wave of polling data comes in, and the parties get it together...