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That pudgy little plumber is jingling all the way to the bank. Two months after its release, Nintendo 64, the 3-D-saturated game machine, and its marquee title, Mario 64, have vanished from the shelves, inspiring rampant supply-side panic among hordes of would-be Santas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARIO PLAYS HARD TO GET | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...DIED. MARIO SAVIO, 53, fiery, eloquent leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s whose success inspired similar protests nationwide; after suffering cardiac fibrillation; in Sebastopol, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 25, 1996 | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...centuries before the advent of Christianity (and inspired by God, traditionalists believe, centuries earlier). Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer once told author David Rosenberg, "I am still learning the art of writing from the book of Genesis." The words could have been uttered by Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky or Mario Puzo. Dozens died in Israel last month over boundaries Genesis set forth; yet the same tales appear, in somewhat altered form, in Islam's holy text, the Koran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENESIS RECONSIDERED | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...customers online. Even the mighty home-video-game industry, which should get a much needed kick in the pants this week with the release of the hotly anticipated Nintendo 64 machine, has seen its sales figures slacken dramatically in recent years as its target audience graduated from Mario Bros. to modems and PCs. The Net, says Glenn Crocker, vice president of engineering at software developer Chaco Communications, "gives us a cheap way to connect a national audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FUN AND GAMES IN CYBERSPACE | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

...keynote speaker--nonincendiary-- Brought twice as many kids as Molinari. Yes, Evan Bayh had babies in his coterie, But came off as a Democrat from Rotary. Though Jesse Jackson got to speak a lot, he And Mario, the party's Pavarotti, Got nonprime slots to call out all their tropes-- Competing with not Seinfeld but the soaps. Supporters now of Clinton, both declined To bash him for the welfare bill he signed. Then Hillary held forth with great aplomb: Apparently she's mainly Chelsea's mom. Her husband values every child he meets, Including those the bill puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE BIG FAMILY, STUPID | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

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