Word: tended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep blowing. The results are good; the volume of air, known as forced vital capacity (FVC), expelled by my lungs measures 5.16 liters per sec., 109% of what is predicted for a man my age, weight and height. Pulmonary capacity goes down with age, which is why older people tend to get out of breath faster than the young. A typical 30-year-old man of my height and weight would have an FVC of 5.63. Even two years makes a difference; at 50, my number would have been...
Music was particularly hard. People's opinions tend to be based on when they grew up: as Wallace was pushing Sinatra, I was pushing Dylan. Also on where they grew up: I'm from New Orleans, and Pearlstine, whose deities include Miles Davis and Duke Ellington, is convinced that's the only reason Louis Armstrong made the list...
...wish I had found more that was genuinely new, but for the most part, the $5 billion-a-year 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...
...accident that we tend to locate the defining artistic moments of recent decades in TV and other popular media, whereas in earlier decades we found them in, say, literature or painting. This stems from the other convulsion the century had in store for the arts in addition to World War I. (Oddly, it wasn't World War II. That conflict's primary impact came from the waves of European artists who fled Nazism for the U.S., enriching the country's homegrown arts and shifting the center of gravity in such fields as painting and classical music...
First-Team All Americans tend to be hard to replace...