Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...given their computers nicknames. Jose Ramirez, shy and bespectacled, struggled to fit in with his classmates before the arrival of laptops. Since then he's become something of a sage. On this afternoon, he's floating among the different groups in the classroom, peering at the work on their screens, shooting down technical troubles. "It's more fun for me now with my classmates, for sure," he says, nodding. At the front of the room, the students take turns projecting reports from their laptops onto a large white screen. A shaft of sunlight streaming through the windows makes the reports...
...From when I wake up until like 7 o'clock I'm handling numerous amounts of business calls. Nighttime hours is more creative work. Throughout all of that I'm trying to weave my way solid through the big-screen arena...
...evil goblins to win the Race for Atlantis. It may be just an optical illusion, but the new attraction at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace is a real breakthrough, the first ride to marry the computer-generated gyrations of a state-of-the-art motion simulator with the immersive wide-screen splendor of an IMAX film. For $9.50, racers wearing 3-D headsets are enveloped in fog and 14,000 watts of digital sound for 6 min. of stomach-churning visceral reality that puts to shame its crosstown rival, Star Trek: The Experience. Even the gods would be impressed...
...great game shows of bygone days remain fixed in our subconscious. The obnoxious blare of a strike on "Family Feud," the whammies dancing across the screen in "Press Your Luck," the frenetic gesticulations of contests on the "$25,000 Pyramid:" all are permanently imprinted in the minds of many in our generation. Possibly Harvard's "Game Show Guru," Mandel N. Ilagan '99 admits that his first memories of television came in the form of game shows...
...mark of a good game show," he says, "is one where you're yelling at the screen. There's some sort of play-along, and that's what sets game shows apart from other shows. Nice bells, buzzers and lights are also essential. It's the stereotype of a game show, but that's really what draws people to it. Plus the game itself. There has to be suspense and risk: the element of gambling...