Word: tigers
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...your shots slicing into the rough? Don't worry--even Tiger Woods, who missed his first cut in seven years last week, can always use help with his game. A TIME guide for the fairways, with early gift ideas for Father's Day, plus tips for women from one who has found her swing. --By Sean Gregory
Take the old Xbox's flagship golf game, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005. Put it side by side with the 2006 version, currently a work in progress. The grass in the old version looks like a green carpet; in the new version, each blade of grass is animated individually and sways to its own rhythm. In the old version, trees make crude, round, blobby shadows; in the new version, each individual leaf has its corresponding individually rendered leaf shadow. The play of light on the water hazards is not readily distinguishable from a filmed image. The fidelity is disconcerting...
...last quarter Microsoft missed its earnings estimates by a whisker. Open-source gadflies like Linux and Firefox are chipping away at its market share in small but irritating ways. Google is making scary noises and hiring away its talent. Apple is winning rave reviews for its new operating system Tiger, which incorporates features that Microsoft was planning for the next version of Windows--which won't be out till 2006. Microsoft isn't going out of business anytime soon, but if it were going to hit a home run, now would be a really great time...
...being who focuses vast, little understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. Almost inevitably, this focus produces pathological symptoms of nervous stress and unreality." Plausible, perhaps, but there are lots of folks who are monomaniacal in other "trivial" spheres and who come out psychically intact. Tiger Woods was raised from infancy to be a great golfer and is not just intact but graceful and charming. The ranks of great golfers, swimmers and Dominican shortstops are not more noticeably skewed to the deranged than the general population...
...Mills won an Oscar for his supporting role as a mute in David Lean's 1970 film Ryan's Daughter. Lean also directed him in Great Expectations and Hobson's Choice. The nimble, enduring Mills, who appeared in more than 100 movies, made four with his daughter Hayley, including Tiger Bay and The Chalk Garden...