Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though, VR entertainment is starting to bloom where movies did nearly a century ago: in the arcades. A penny in the slot once offered streetwise strollers a peek at Fatima's dance; now $4 to $30 gets you a sleigh ride on a space ship (in Cybergate) or a fretful stroll through a computerized Acropolis (in Dactyl Nightmare, by Virtuality). And why not the arcades? Video games are a $5.3 billion business in the U.S., about as large as the theatrical movie market...
...sAiled the stout ship nansy hans...
...Among the demands are the retirement of army commander Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, an end to human-rights abuses and the disarming of the "attaches," a ganglike auxiliary police force that has terrorized citizens. At week's end a U.S. Coast Guard cutter fired warning shots at a merchant ship that refused to change course...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. $5 for students. "Until the Ship Sails" at 7 p.m. The precursor of the Greek "New Wave," this film demonstrates the unique features of both the modern Greek cinema and the extremely individualist director/actor Aliexis Damianos, who won for this film the best director prize at the Hyeres Film Festival. Reception...
Apparently, just minutes before, the tugboat MV Mauvilla had had an encounter with the same bridge. Pushing a tow of six barges strapped together, the ship had taken a wrong turn on the Mobile river and strayed into the bayou. In the fog and darkness, however, the barges became unlashed and began drifting. According to expert speculation last week, they may have hit the bridge, which was too low to let them pass. Someone on the tugboat radioed the Coast Guard for help. By then, however, the Sunset Limited roared into sight -- and plunged straight into disaster. The bridge gave...