Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...once, the movement on the screen feels real. Nudge the stick forward, Mario walks: clump-clump-clump. Press it a bit more, he leans forward and trots: clop-clop-clop-clop. Push it all the way, he runs faster and faster, tiny legs pumping in unison with his body, his rising speeds a seamless gradation of motion...
What's more, he goes wherever you point him. The Nintendo 64 shatters the convention of two-dimensional horizontal scrolling video games. No more bouncing off guardrails or dissolving in fuzzy pixels on the edge of the screen. Wherever you want to go--forward, backward, left, right or anywhere in between--the scene follows you in dazzling 3D. If you want to climb a wall or dive into the moat, you can. (The water is gorgeously rendered, and it's worth the plunge just to hear the dreamy New Age sound track that accompanies underwater excursion...
...first product to incorporate the technology is Fin-Fin, an animated dolphin/bird that bounces happily around your computer screen in response to whistles and hand signals. Due in stores this fall, the phantasmagoric Flipper was designed to make the electronic world more friendly for 6- to 12-year-old girls. Fin-Fin is a long way from a truly smart disk-based mammal--she can't swim out to the Internet and grab an image, for instance--but Fujitsu hopes she and her electronic cousins will help demystify (and sell) computers...
...leading man with enough juice to light up the big screen, or does he just play one on TV? A lot is riding on E.R. star GEORGE CLOONEY's first foray into the minefield of Hollywood romantic comedy. (One false move and he may be making From Dusk to Dawn vampire sequels from here to eternity.) One Fine Day, due out later this year, pairs the roguishly charming newcomer with that gleaming icon of glamour MICHELLE PFEIFFER. Clooney plays an Oscar Madison-like newspaper columnist and single father; Pfeiffer is an architect and single mother. They meet and immediately fall...
...whose front is pasted a photo of herself when young; she wears a necklace of memories: jars containing gilded mementos of prayer, marriage, long-gone sexual love. The repeated forms of oval frames, a sewing box and tabletops combine with the big curve of the screen behind the chair to give the piece a strong binding rhythm at odds with the poor shriveled figure. All is dust and mummification except for one touch of life: a real canary cheeping in its cage...