Word: statics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Things were relatively static in the Ivy Fantasy Hoops standings this weekend, the sixth of the Ancient Eight season...
...doesn't take much to see why. This summer I could have paid 10 bucks to watch Superman Returns for three hours. Or I could have paid 15 bucks to be Superman whenever I wanted. It isn't just the thrill of playing dress-up either; Superman Returns is static, always saddled with the same ending. But WoW, like the real world, changes with every choice I make. Fighting with two swords instead of one gives me a better shot at beating down an opposing mage, while spending hours wending through a haunted manse might win me a coveted staff...
...manages to escape his own tale's bullet-riddled climax. That, we can only hope, is fodder for another book. Church says there's a second in the works: in Inspector O, the author has crafted a complex character with rough charm to spare, and in eternally static North Korea, he has a setting that will fascinate readers for sequels to come...
...bars from the Vitamin Shoppe, $14.66. 12) For your boyfriend: a pair of earrings from Zinnia (for when he forgets to buy you a gift), $6.99. 13) Make your own model kit for molecular bio (marshmallows and toothpicks from CVS), $2.50. 14) For your friend at Yale: a Harvard static sticker from the Coop, $4.98. 15) For that person you forget about until last minute: 15 copies of Spare Change Times...
...course, this isn’t to say that people can’t have multi-faceted personalities and changing moods. After all, the constantly changing profiles might just be a reflection of those less static characteristics. And for the celebrity extremists of our generation, the periodic reinvention of the self may, apart from garnering them the attention they crave, just come as a natural requirement of their “jobs” if they hope to stay relevant and interesting to the prying masses...