Word: smarting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game machine on your TV almost seems as amusing and entertaining as renting a movie or watching a ball game. The 3-D effects are what game pros call immersive, that is, real enough to make you forget the 4-ft. space between you and your TV. Nintendo's smart-chip technology, blended with terrific software, has created a virtual world so compelling that the plastic game box moves from novelty to full-fledged revelation...
Microsoft's initial stab at an online service last fall met with mostly mixed reviews from critics and consumers alike. This year it's back with a smart Web-based service that mixes the highest technology on the Internet with well-thought-out content. The result is a service that, even with a 28.8-kbps modem, looks well worth paying for. This fall the network offers over 20 "shows" that include Michael Kinsley's Slate magazine, an online auto-shopping service and a terrific electronic travel agent. (Microsoft...
...wonderful "artificial world" CD-ROM. The game--if that's the right word--puts players at the helm of a budding society, just crawling out of hunt-and-gather mode. Building your tribe into an empire proves to be a pretty addictive sensation, though it takes a mix of smart planning and tactical warfare to win the game. ($50; Spectrum Holobyte/Microprose...
...Players are on a professional level [at Michigan]," Kirshner recalled. By contrast, he mourned, the Crimson players are "so slow--and smart...
...four years Bill Clinton learned that it is not enough to be smart or charming or plump with vision. His triumph on Tuesday night, for all the records it broke, was a victory for studied modesty; for a willingness to swallow his pride to preserve his power, embrace his enemies to steal their ideas and march into history as the first two-term Democrat since F.D.R., not with great leaps forward but one baby step at a time...