Word: imax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Race for Atlantis. It may be just an optical illusion, but the new attraction at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace is a real breakthrough, the first ride to marry the computer-generated gyrations of a state-of-the-art motion simulator with the immersive wide-screen splendor of an IMAX film. For $9.50, racers wearing 3-D headsets are enveloped in fog and 14,000 watts of digital sound for 6 min. of stomach-churning visceral reality that puts to shame its crosstown rival, Star Trek: The Experience. Even the gods would be impressed...
Climbing continued after May 10. An American, Ed Viesturs, who was making a movie for IMAX, reported passing the bodies of his friends Fischer and Hall. One other death, a South African whose colleagues let him climb past his turnaround time, brought the fatalities for the season to 12. If that number is compared with the 84 people who summitted, Krakauer observes dryly, "1996 was actually a safer-than-average year...
...didn't really lose it until we were delivered to an IMAX theater to watch a tourist movie on the Canyon. Here we had one of the great natural wonders of the world, the story of which began billions of years ago, and all that these intrepid filmmakers could think to portray were four 19th century cowboys navigating the Canyon's rapids...
...without a doubt the only person in the theater who laughed out loud on hearing these lines. The Sony IMAX in New York was full to capacity with eager Star Wars watchers, even though it was past midnight on Sunday, and I would say that a healthy number of them stared at me bewildered for some time after my outburst. Of course, the confused spectators had not been privy to a discussion I had with my best friend earlier in the week, one which made these lines extremely funny...
Museums: Name your favorite subject and the city's got a top-notch museum about it. The Boston Museum of Science has hands-on exhibits, a planetarium with laser light shows and an Imax theater. The Computer Museum showcases the latest in technology, also mostly hands-on. And for the kid in you, check out the Children's Museum, site of some amusing house formal dances...