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...beavering away on their own powerful new video-game console, the Xbox. Partly because Microsoft is the new kid on this particular block, its approach to publicity--it's dropping $500 million this year on Xbox advertising--is a little different. The staff here can't wait to thrust a green-and-black Xbox into your hands, show off dozens of cool games--and loudly taunt the game spooks up the road. "Let's face it, Nintendo's system is for kids," says Robbie Bach, Xbox's gruff-voiced team leader. "We're for sophisticated gamers. I don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Of Seattle | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...gold record (his 21st). And in his duet with Sinatra, he teaches Young Blue Eyes a thing or two about the ease of musical and movie-star mastery. "Well, Did You Evah," an old Cole Porter tune dusted off for the occasion, is a clever thrust-and-parry duet, and Crosby effortlessly gets in the best jabs. In one bridge he ends the phrase "baba au rhum" with his trademark "bu-bu-bu-bu-bum." When Sinatra sing-snarls, "Don't dig that kind a croonin', chum," Crosby speaks his response with a withering vagueness, "You must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Book on Bing Crosby | 5/17/2001 | See Source »

...When I asked if he'd done much exploring yet, he gave me a look like a domestic pet suddenly thrust into the middle of a jungle. Not yet, he said. What would I recommend? I mentioned what was then the hottest title for the Sega Dreamcast, Crazy Taxi. "Dream, Cast and Crazy Taxi, eh?" said Regis. "Well, I'll have to check them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the Gates of Gaming's Babylon | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

...other, free from other distractions. The Catch-Up Car Confabulation is really just a 21st century showing of care and love—troubled relationships always feature silent car rides. Once the door opens, the spell is lost. Like a phone ending a much-need nap, the occupants are thrust back into the loud realities of the non-car world, and the Car Confabulation is terminated until the next ride...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Confronting Car Confabulation | 5/2/2001 | See Source »

...thrust of the conference was to talk openly about conservative ideas that conference participants worry are not vocalized on college campuses nationwide...

Author: By Dana M. Scardigli, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Horowitz Promotes Right-Wing Ideals At Local Conference For Conservatives | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

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