Word: mortally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year of buildup, Mattel is rolling out a line of seven interactive products led by three Barbie programs. Analyst John Taylor of Arcadia Investment expects Barbie to be among the top software entertainment programs this Christmas. Unlike such shoot-'em-up, beat-'em-up boy toys as Doom and Mortal Kombat, the Barbie titles are notably pacific and based on creative play. "The demand will be many times higher than Mattel thinks it will be," predicts Gary Jacobson, a senior vice president at the brokerage Jefferies & Co., who has followed Mattel for a decade. "The orders [from retailers] are large...
...created the phenomenally popular shoot-'em-ups Doom and Doom II, Quake was released late last month and quickly shot to the top of the game charts. More intriguing, though, was last month's roll-out of Quake World, Quake's "networked" cousin, which can bring together in simultaneous mortal combat as many as eight players--players who may be sitting, like Grrrl, in adjoining cubicles, or on opposite sides of the world. The game stands at the vanguard of a new breed of software designed to combine the enduring fascination of interactive computer games with the explosive growth...
Eilenberg then turned, raised his fist in the air and screamed "Mortal Kombat" repeatedly until University Health Services officials arrived on the scene to transport him to McLean Hospital...
...constitutional monarch, while Diana would be the charismatic popular symbol. But largely because of the competitive rancor between the heir to the throne and his wife, public acceptance of the monarchy is considerably weaker today than it was even five years ago. While the institution is not in mortal peril, discussion of a republic has become both vigorous and respectable rather than a left-wing fringe topic. The best possible scenario now is a three-act drama: long, long life to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, who is exemplary; a brief reign for Charles, who might...
...tennis, kick boxing and "ultimate fighting"--filling in every month of the year and every hour of the day on espn and its clones. Not since the Crusades has it been possible for Western Man to spend so much time in the male-play realm of hoarse cheers and mortal competition...