Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of the games I saw offered some kind of Net tie-in. Many are specifically meant to be played online, and "massively multiplayer" entertainments are all the rage. One of the best, Warbirds, allows you to pilot a World War II fighter plane in a squadron. The game can be downloaded for free at imagicgames.com and costs $2 an hour to play online...
...technologies meant new audiences--and new relationships between artists and audiences. Movies were the century's first mass medium after print. But although millions of viewers could have the same experience at the movies, they experienced it a few hundred at a time, in individual theaters. Radio was the first entertainment medium to enable a mass audience to have the same experience instantaneously and simultaneously. Even more than movies, radio gave audiences an intensely communal feeling, a sense of being part of something national, as well as a special intimacy with its stars...
...make art was to achieve a tyrannous freedom from self-explanation. The artist's work was mediumistic ("Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do what it wants"), solipsistic even. To Picasso, the idea that painting did itself through him meant that it wasn't subject to cultural etiquette. None of the other fathers of Modernism felt it so strongly--not Matisse, not Mondrian, certainly not Braque...
Pochoda held just a three seed entering the tournament, which meant the road to the finals ran through top-seeded Princeton freshman Julia Beaver. It took five games for Pochoda to put the freshman in her place, as she went on to win 9-1, 7-9, 9-7, 6-9, 9-6 in a hotly contested veteran versus rookie matchup...
...highly anticipated regional finals rematch between the Crimson and the Tribe was not meant to be. In the upset of the tournament, the Techsters stunned the Crimson...