Word: mario
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...video-game industry, which convenes this week in Los Angeles for the giant Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), has been waiting nearly three years for this game. It stars a familiar character--a stumpy, mustachioed plumber named Mario--but it runs on a new machine so powerful, so blisteringly fast, so graphically rich that it could be single-handedly running out of lives...
They are. Hours after Super Mario 64 arrived in Seattle, TIME correspondent David S. Jackson took it and several other games for a test run. Playing Mario 64, he reports, is like jumping inside the movie Toy Story. The plot line, something about a princess and a bad guy named Bowser, is, as always, almost irrelevant. What matters is that the Silicon Graphics chip-fueled Nintendo 64 puts the fastest, smoothest game action yet attainable via joystick at the service of equally virtuoso motion. Mario runs, flies, swims, dodges and flips his way past a bewildering welter of walls, ramps...
Many admirers referred to those qualities last week, but Mario Cuomo's son Andrew probably captured them best when he recalled a visit to Los Angeles in March 1993, when Brown and Cuomo were delivering an aid package to the city. Outside a sporting-goods shop staffed by former gang members, Cuomo and Brown played basketball with the ex-gangsters for the benefit of the TV cameras. "The gang people were big," said Cuomo. "This was not going to be much of a contest. So Ron took the ball, and with the cameras rolling, he set up at half court...
...Buchanan has that know-how. In the TIME/CNN Election Monitor, he's the G.O.P. candidate with the largest share of supporters, 31%, in the $20,000-to-$35,000 income range. The same group comprises just 21% of Dole's backers, 19% of Alexander's and 14% of Forbes'. Mario Abruzzini, 37, is a bricklayer in Concord, California, who likes Buchanan because he's concerned about immigration but also because he bares his fangs at the business elite. "People need to be aware of how some of these corporations are treating their employees," he says...
...more personal note, the Cuban-American Undergraduate Students Association extends its sympathy and sincerest condolences to the families of Armando Alejandre, Mario de la Pena, Carlos Costa and Pablo Morales. --The Executive Board of the Cuban-American Undergraduate Students Association. Carlos A. Zumpano '96, President Elana Oberstein '97, Vice-President Sharon Lisitzky '97, Treasurer Ray Rasco '98, Secretary Mario Garcia-Serra '98 Joaquin Azino '98 Rudy Fernandez...