Word: sons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lord's boss, Rudy Giuliani, would no doubt agree. He was in his first term when he found his son Andrew, then 7, playing Sim City. Andrew had placed police stations on every street corner. The crime rate was zero. Giuliani Sr. watched, fascinated, and began making suggestions on taxation, zoning and so forth. Finally, Andrew wheeled around. "Dad," he told the mayor of New York, "this is my city...
Perhaps we'd better prepare for the coming of the god-game generation: children who have tasted such power and know little of defeat. Sid Meier spent his childhood reconstructing the fall of Rome with legions of toy soldiers. Now his eight-year-old son conducts the same campaigns in Civilization, to much greater effect. "Nothing is impossible to him," says Meier. "I suppose once you've led the Roman Empire, you don't really have a sense of limitations...
Until the mid-80s, Morell was a street photographer in the tradition of Robert Frank. He strolled through cities, hoping to capture the accidental compositions of the metropolis, chance photogenic oddities. With the birth of his son, Morell discovered the wonders of the domestic interior, the strangeness of objects--there was "a huge landscape of...things" to be investigated. Like a Columbus of the kitchen floor, Morell began to photograph cooking eggs, refrigerators, building blocks and realized that "you don't have to go to Tibet to find a great picture...
...best way to combat segregation. Verrett pursues equality with an almost reckless passion, while Grant still hopes to effect change through official channels. This same sort of tension is played out convincingly between Travis and his father, whose concern for Travis' safety makes him a constant check on his son's determined idealism...
...story's repeated usage through timehas caused the plot to appear overly trite: Amorally corrupt American man deserts his innocent,trusting Japanese geisha-wife who waits faithfullyfor three years despite numerous signs of beingforsaken. The man then returns with his newAmerican wife expecting the Japanese wife to giveup their son...