Word: hr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final week of coding, veteran designer Graeme Devine noticed that nerves were fraying. So he went to the local Toys "R" Us and cleaned them out of Nerf guns--$280 worth of the rubber-shot geek toys. What followed is still spoken of in hushed tones: an epic 3-hr. Nerf war. "It was good for the team," says Devine. "By shooting each other, we saved a possible blowup in the company...
KIDS Study says they consume 5.5 hr. of electronic media a day. Mom, TIME's a great stocking stuffer
WARM UP Expect your new speakers to take 12 hr. to 50 hr. to "burn in," or reach peak performance...
...main cavils about Mononoke are that it is too bloody (the battle scenes feature many decapitations and dis-armings) and that at 2 hr. 13 min., it is nearly an hour longer than most cartoon features. "We had to confront the issue of violence head on," Miyazaki says. "Children already know all too well the violence that resides inside them and the violence that pervades the world around them. If we wanted to speak out about this question, we had to incorporate realistic violence in the film. I also agree it's too long. If only I were more blessed...
Cobbling together a new TV program meant a steady grind of 18-hr. workdays as the Clark team hustled to meet Fox's demand to get the show on the air during the November ratings sweeps and before the scheduled Nov. 7 reappearance of Millionaire. Somewhere along the way, the grand prize was whittled down to $2 million...