Word: objectional
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This game (for PC; $54.99) was five years in the making, and every minute appears to have been well spent. The graphics and physics of how objects move in Half-Life 2's world are by far the most realistic ever to grace a computer screen. As you wander the streets of City 17, the alien-controlled police state your character Gordon Freeman is attempting to subvert, you have to rub your eyes to realize you're not actually visiting an East European capital. And check out the mayhem you can cause with Gordon's gravity gun, which sucks...
...stand, Taniguchi has built six floors of galleries with an atrium in the middle to provide both light and easy navigation. On the existing floor space, he has retained and expanded the much-beloved sculpture garden, but encased it in glass, he says, "like one would a precious object." It still serves as the museum's beating heart and the centerpiece of the entire block?Taniguchi compares the museum to New York itself, calling the sculpture garden MOMA's own Central Park. Thereafter, he says, the interplay of spaces involved attempting to "connect the two cores"?the sculpture garden...
...Older crocks will be reminded of the Cinerama adventures of their misspent youths, but this time the process is perfect--no annoying jiggles where the three screens of the old technology never quite matched. There are times when you'll pull back in your seat to avoid some onrushing object. Other times you'll feel your stomach descending toward your ankles. Frequently you'll be grateful for Tom Hanks' cranky, reassuring aplomb as the train's fussy conductor...
Despite all the intel showing heavy movement within the buildings, Object Lion was not defended. But in the street behind it, a mammoth propane tank lay on its side; wire ran from it to a nearby house. A squad was detailed, and went in only to come scurrying straight back out. The presence of gas cans and a car battery suggested that the propane tank and probably the house were rigged to blow...
...building, a car, a fire hydrant, a rock, a small dog, etc. You pull out your cell phone and text-message the sticker’s code to the phone number provided and then receive a short phrase of poetic or historical explanation that reveals the importance of the object. Then you place a few arrows of your own, and suddenly you’re part of a global community of people linked to each other through the expression of their love for a place...