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...upper Broadway in New York City. The Sunday-morning faithful--a few hundred strong--have come to hear the Journey's laid-back pastor, Nelson Searcy, give them the word. The word made film. Searcy, 32, who in jeans and a goatee looks like a way less Mephistophelian Charlie Sheen, is about to deliver the last of the church's eight-part God on Film series. The topic? "Catwoman: Discovering My True Identity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Gospel According To Spider-Man | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

...around in a virtual space in much the same way that they do in the real world. Suddenly, pebbly surfaces cast pebbly shadows. Air ripples from the heat of a broken steam pipe. There is a crispness to details, a weight and solidity to objects and figures, a lifelike sheen to surfaces in Doom 3 that is unlike anything we've seen before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Games: The Age of Doom | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

...Kunming, Yunnan The neatly dressed husband and wife are in their 50s and comfortingly average looking. Their once-smooth dark skin is now veined and burnished to a proud sheen, reflecting the decades of hard work they have put into raising a family, earning their salaries and, now, battling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Secret Plague | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

...physics models, the "normal mapping" (whatever that is) - but id has created a virtual environment that's more compelling and immersive and realistic than really seems possible. Get up close to one of the demons and look at his skin: it gleams with a dull, matte, scaly sheen that's disturbingly lifelike. Warning: staring at demon skin up close may result in you being gutted like a fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A First Look at Doom 3 | 7/15/2004 | See Source »

...approach to democracy: keeping her locked up, while also shuttering her party's branch offices. As a result, the NLD has sent no delegates to the convention, reinforcing the impression that the conference is little more than a political show, clumsily designed to give the government a much-needed sheen of respectability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Maneuvers | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

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