Word: hards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often that the worlds of literature and hard-core, pulse-pounding, rocket-launching action gaming meet, but they're about to. Yesterday, after a months-long campaign of hints and rumors, Electronic Arts announced its intention to publish a new horror-themed computer game built around technology developed for Quake III and designed by one of Quake's original architects. The game will be based on Lewis Carroll's classic children's book "Alice in Wonderland." Will it take gaming to a new level - or drag a literary classic down...
...will be known as American McGee's Alice, after the game's creator - is huge, and that's exactly what Electronic Arts hoped for. The announcement was preceded by 13 weeks of more or less cryptic hints - music boxes, the sound of children laughing, portentous poems. Even now, little hard information has been released. The game's official site carries an image of a Cheshire Cat with an earring, a skeletal neck, and a more sinister smile than Carroll probably originally envisioned. It also features scraps of verse along fairly predictable lines...
...trees a week or two earlier this year - and recently took out ads in 11 magazines to reinforce the message. The state of Maine will post weekly foliage updates beginning September 15. In Vermont, state officials smugly point out that the drought hasn't hit their state as hard, especially in the northern half. Meanwhile, Rhode Island, suffering through its worst summer for rain in recorded history, has given up on promoting leaves and instead would like you to know that there are plenty of other pleasant things to do in the Ocean State. Fall branch tour, anyone...
...Delay running the House, no President could launch a war on poverty. It was all Clinton could do to beat back the 1995-96 G.O.P. tide, and the Rainbow members are grateful for it--but Bradley never acknowledged that, and the omission undermined his credibility. Problem is, it's hard for Bradley to draw stark contrasts with Gore, who was cheered wildly by the Rainbow on Saturday. Bradley said he wouldn't try to reverse welfare reform but would look for ways to "improve" the bill. That's what Clinton and Gore have already done. And Bradley's argument that...
...community services for the state, "and no program I've seen has done as much for race relations as this one has. We didn't go into this with that goal--but these relationships develop based on people, not color. People get to know people, and then it's hard to hate a friend...