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...strict definition of virtual reality. Only a few make use of the computer helmet that guides your wraparound view and allows you to "move" objects in cyberspace. Most are only virtually virtual: variations on arcade games or tweakings of Disney's Star Tours ride, which craftily gyrate a pod in time with jolting screen images. But all the systems have a common goal: to give you a new-horizons, touchy-feely, out-of-mind experience. Virtual reality? Perhaps. Virtual theatricality? For sure...
...Pacific Ocean. And to keep him refreshed, you'd probably run him through an automatic car wash. And then, like an animal tamer who uses love instead of a whip, you'd get your adorable orca to leap over a high jetty so he could be reunited with his pod. You'd go that far for a friend. Where there's a whale, there...
...France by writer-director Tran Anh Hung, 30, and a cast of refugees; both tell bold stories of a child's coming of age. And Abel Ferrara's Hollywood horror movie Body Snatchers, saved from the slag heap of Warner Bros. rejects, revives the old parable of the Pod People with a frame-by-frame savvy that used to be unique...
...Take pilot whales, for example. While most guys living with relatives will leave home to find a mate, thus avoiding the genetic pitfalls of inbreeding, male pilot whales have found a reproductive strategy that better suits their oceangoing life-style. An analysis of the DNA of whale families, called pods, published in the journal Science, suggests that these young males wait until their pod collides with another, then mate with females they bump into. Afterward, though, they return to their original pod to protect the offspring of female relatives. While their return does little to assure the survival...
Frasier (reading a goodbye letter from Lilith): "Dear Frasier: Life in the Eco Pod is wonderful. Gogie and I are happier than we've ever been. Please start divorce proceedings. Our marriage is . . ." (He is overcome...