Word: microsecond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rated children's TV series in Japan, appealing to both girls and boys. Then came an unpleasant surprise. In December 1997, about 700 children had sudden and simultaneous seizures while watching the show. The specific episode involved a bomb attack on Pikachu and its pals. In a microsecond, animated flashes interacted with frenetically changing colors as Pikachu blinked out its lightning bolts across the screen. Apparently such combinations of light can induce seizures in some children. While the government investigated, the show shut down for four months, and the producers revised their animation strategies...
Rimes has taken that popcorn-kernel-in-the-throat catch, married it to old-fashioned yodeling and become a crossover star. On the hit single Blue and on an Eddy Arnold duet of the venerable Cattle Call, her voice breaks with startling ease and, in a microsecond, pole-vaults from barroom belter in the low register to choir girl in the high. If there were no feeling behind it, this double-jointed vocalizing would be only a freak talent. But Rimes either knows the heartsickness behind country songs or can fake it brilliantly. There is a hint of girlishness...