Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pokemania, a multimedia and interactive barrage like no other before it, with children mesmerized into cataloging a menagerie of multiplicative monsters, with trading cards linked to games linked to television shows linked to toys linked to websites linked to candy linked back to where you started--a pestilential Ponzi scheme (see foldout graphic). Smelling profits, America's conglomerates have pokeyed up to cash in. Hasbro paid $325 million to market the toys. The WB network (owned by Time Warner, the parent company of this magazine) swept up exclusive rights to the top-rated animated TV series. Warner released the Pokemon...
...imports the bats from Batman, the jack-o'-lantern from Nightmare Before Christmas and, as Ichabod Crane, Johnny Depp from Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood. Instead of the bright Halloween hues of the Disney version, Burton gives his film a swankly, dankly desaturated color scheme. And just to make sure he doesn't go soft, he hires Andrew Kevin Walker, author of the sleazorific Se7en and 8mm, to write the screenplay. No one will fall asleep in this Sleepy Hollow. It revs up the gore...
...Create a new scheme if you wish or just change the current one. To change colors click on the color box below the word foreground (your text color) or below background (self explanatory...
...Little did Sidlecki know that he had the perfect match for his offense. The speed and quick decision-making that Walland honed in high school was just the prototype to fit the Yale scheme...
...While Sidlecki has not installed a run-and-shoot offense per se, it is a scheme that relies upon the quarterback to really read the defense and, in the coach's words, "take what the defense gives...