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...electronic-games industry is playing follow the leader. Shoot-'em-ups are modeled on Quake and Tomb Raider. Battle-strategy games behave like Warcraft. Flight simulators tend to resemble Microsoft's. To be sure, this year's new games are faster, smoother and compatible with accelerator cards that deliver superior 3-D effects. They also tend to require Olympian amounts of RAM. SimCity 3000, will need a minimum of 32 MB, though the payoff is splendidly rendered, 3-D, skyscraper-bejeweled cities that one can zoom in on, right down to the level of joggers on the sidewalks, and redesign...
Photography not only provided this century with two of the things it likes best--greater realism and superior fantasies--but also showed how deeply entwined they can be. Circa 1900, ambitious photographers aspired to pictures that resembled paintings. Then came modernism, which taught them to rethink the characteristics of their own medium. Sharp focus, accidental arrangements and the just-the-facts stuff that cameras provide became a new path to the supreme fictions of art. Of the pleasures cameras give us, the transfiguration of plain reality is the most indispensable. It implies that the world is more than it seems...
...later indicted by a grand jury in Cambridge on the five original counts and an additional count of indecent assault and battery which refers to the sexual nature of the offense with which he has been charged. Elster's case is now in the pre-trial stages in the Superior Court. The next court date is scheduled for September...
...papers filed with the Middlesex County Superior Court in June 1997, Awerbuch-Friedlander claims she was denied appointment to "tenure-track" positions because of her gender...
After his retirement, Myhrum and his familyspent a year cruising the Intercoastal Waterwayfrom New York to Mexico. He and his wife stillspend five months a year on the boat, and spendtheir summers in a house near Lake Superior...