Word: sugar
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sugar water you are asked to swallow is this: that the games industry, now a $10 billion business, bigger than Hollywood, will never grow up. No matter how mainstream the potential audience gets, they will always want to play wizards, shoot zombies, skateboard, wrestle. Female characters are fine, but they must wear bikinis and have figures unlike any woman who isn't nine inches tall and made out of plastic. Games are good if they have the loudest bangs, the coolest aliens and the most gore. Not everyone in the industry has their head buried in the sandbox like this...
...produce a show and finds the locals are less simple than he expects. "Luis" stars character actor Luis Guzman ("Boogie Nights") as the owner of an East Harlem donut shop; prime-time could use a few more working-class sitcoms (is a donut shop owner blue collar or powdered-sugar collar?) and it seems to have a strong voice...
APPLE PIE. A symbol of motherhood, but you probably have no time to make one. Purchase a pie, put it in the oven till authentically burnt at the edges, then sprinkle on sugar for that "homemade" look...
...from the old loading dock, where shipments of sugar were once brought into the factory by a rail link, Stubbins plans to build a “winter garden” surrounded in glass, that will fuse the building’s traditional brick outline with the aesthetic of its new function...
...They’re still scraping the sugar off the walls,” a receptionist says...