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...scale (a brief cutscene in which your caravan sets out from your hometown is all that gets things rolling), the world feels as instantly alive as in any full-fledged role playing game. The soundtrack comprises some of the most vivid medieval-themed music yet committed to the videogame medium, conjuring a distinctly Old World atmosphere. Each landscape is rife with textural and architectural detail that makes it seem like an actual site rather than a repetitive virtual board. These maps are overrun by baddies (in dungeons and remote locations) and by amusing communities (in friendly towns) in which you?...
...don’t think it’s a holdover from rock’s “voice of a generation” rhetoric either; a person’s CDs or MP3s are practically a bodily extension. If music—not just the physical medium, but the expressive content—can “belong” to a person, can be attached to a self, then it naturally follows that criticizing the artist is like criticizing its fans...
Compliance is not a characteristic normally associated with Davis, whose performances on film have often bristled against the constraints of the medium. But here her character's emotions are allowed the color and scope of the events that sweep Mrs. Bradshaw along, molding her but also being molded by her "lovely quick hands." The speech in which she passionately defends her compliance ("no is misery and lonely nights") is but one of a half-dozen moments when the seemingly sparrow-sized Davis holds the 300-seat theater in the palm of her hand. It's spellbinding stuff. No doubt some...
Within a year of taking their friend's advice, the couple had christened C&G Salsa. Their journey from kitchen to supermarket aisle has paid off handsomely. Crazy Charlie's Salsa--hot, medium and mild--is now in 87 Kroger stores in Indiana and Illinois. Charlie, a 27-year veteran of General Motors, is planning to retire in three years and devote all his energies...
...around 70%. Kutaragi's flamboyant management style has raised some eyebrows within the staid halls of Sony. Legend has it he once offered to settle a dispute over the PlayStation's design with an arm-wrestling match. But he has earned his swagger. If video games are the storytelling medium of the coming century, Kutaragi is their Gutenberg. --By Lev Grossman