Word: peeped
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...Woody and Buzz Lightyear, our animated Don Quixote and Pancho Sanza (the fun is figuring out who exactly is more deluded), you have the returning Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head (now officially married), Slinky Dog, the incontinent Hamm, the still neurotic Rex and the ever-prone-to-PDA Bo Peep. The sequel adds a few new ones--most notably, Barbie (Mattel realized they lost a major marketing chance when they refused to let Pixar use their infamously-proportioned doll in the first film). Also in the fray are Wayne Knight's villainous Al McWhiggen, a proprieter of a nearby...
PLAYING GODFATHER Being an upstanding citizen is honorable but dull. And it won't get you very far in Mob Rule, a new world-building game from Simon & Schuster Interactive ($40). Players create corrupt 1930s towns full of gambling dens, slaughterhouses and peep shows. When you're not bribing the police or hiring gangsters, you must keep your tenants happy with new restaurants and more subway stops. Who knew a thug's life was so complicated...
Increasingly that means looking as well as listening. For nearly four decades, SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) scientists have scoured the skies with their big radio antennas without getting so much as a convincing peep, though there have been some tantalizing false alarms. Not only can suspect signals be elusively faint, they are also hard to separate from the universe's hodgepodge of natural noises. Given that, many scientists have begun wondering about entirely different kinds of extraterrestrial smoke signals, especially lasers. Says Harvard physicist Paul Horowitz, a veteran of many SETI radio searches: "Lasers are an interesting alternative...
...July 26]. The concern is not the beautiful naked people embracing but the fact that they are doing so in public as entertainment. Civilized people make passionate love, but they do it in a bedroom, not in front of a movie camera. Let's not go any further into peep show-ism. JOHN KENRICK ELLIS Sierra Madre, Calif...
...show claimed I raised my hand sheepishly to acknowledge the lackluster shout-out, but honestly I have no memory of such action. Though I knew to be prepared for my fifteen minutes, I had failed miserably at the task, and let them pass me by with barely a peep...