Word: staticity
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...hard to feel like a new, adventurous person when you find yourself spending a good deal of time riding airport conveyor belts to the next terminal, and the next. And to me that’s what traveling on a regimented holiday feels like—terminal, static, stuck. Life seems to go on hold as soon as you go on holiday, your mouth ajar, thumb perpetually stuck in the travel guide...
...original manga," says director Hideaki Anno. The result is a campy movie marked by performances that are so over-the-top you expect the actors to wink at the camera after every line. The special effects also reveal the movie's limited budget. Fight scenes are strangely static, and computer-generated visuals are unpolished. Despite a charming performance from Sato, much of the film seems devoted to giving people a chance to ogle her in an array of fetching costumes?and in all fairness, she does an excellent job of being oglable...
...June 22, marks the latest departure for a band whose ability to evoke classic idioms of American pop music, from country to punk, is matched only by its determination to defy them. Wilco's previous album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, a collection of well-sculpted melodies buried in layers of static, radio noise and percussion, so bewildered executives at the band's record label, Reprise, that they refused to release it. In response, Wilco left Reprise, bought the rights to the album and released it eight months later on the independent label Nonesuch--a saga chronicled in Sam Jones' 2002 documentary...
...chief General John Abizaid, appearing via videophone from Qatar, admitted that he was worried about the political fallout back home from the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal. Hearing this, George W. Bush peered back at Abizaid, who oversees two continuing wars in Asia, and told him to ignore the static. "You worry about getting the job done," Bush said. "You let me worry about the politics and the things back here...
...original Sims sold more than 34 million copies and is by far the most successful computer game of all time. In that first version, players controlled the lives of miniature 3-D suburbanites. They were as willful and idiosyncratic as real children, yet as ageless--and ultimately static--as sitcom families. In this sequel, which is about a hundred times as detailed and animated, creator Will Wright has added the dimension of time. Your Sims grow from mewling infants to wizened crones in the space of an average 25 hours of game play, Wright says. The sudden arrival of birthday...