Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visit invented universes whose inhabitants create their own stories by exploring territory, making alliances, seeking treasure and so on. But the Net has advanced the form considerably since the halcyon days of Dungeons & Dragons, the original game played by dateless dweebs in rec rooms across America on Saturday nights. Today's fantasy worlds are designed by software gurus, are presented on the Web and swarm with tens of thousands of players. The result is virtual societies like Ultima Online, which in two years amassed 125,000 players so fervent that pieces of exclusive real estate on the Ultima site--think...
Life was so much simpler for '60s pop stars. When Carole King went on tour, she packed a poncho and jumped on a bus. Today singers won't hit the road without consulting pyrotechnic experts and an army of stylists. When WHITNEY HOUSTON kicks off her tour June 22, she'll bring trunk loads of costumes created for her by Italian designers Dolce and Gabbana. For each song, there is a fashion: gowns for ballads and edgy sportswear for up-tempo numbers. Alas, Whitney sings no zydeco...
With my father and me, it was World War III (All-Nukes) much of the time, yet even in more serene relationships, everything gets overblown. Children strain to get their arms around their father's thighs. Too thick, too strong. Today my boys can beat me in arm wrestling without half trying. My daughter can outrun me in a race; no sweat. But they do not savor these victories. I am the father who should not be conquered. One afternoon when I was 14, my father, once a powerful and muscular swimmer, ran out of breath as we swam...
...Theatre is plush, and the crowd seems plump with well-being. Alum Jerome Vered, 41, an HBO researcher, feels fortunate that he hasn't faced "a real curveball, like a spouse or child dying." Tamara Remy, 24, a new Harvard Law grad, holds pink flowers and high hopes. "Just today we were wondering if there's a President among us," she says of her class...
...been testing the robot for the past few weeks, and though it's an excellent tool for Stein harassment, it can't compete with my daughters in the clearing-the-dinner-table department. Indeed, while Cye's offspring may grow up to be butlers and bartenders, today's robot is best used as an educational toy. You control it via your 133-MHz-or-faster PC. A small radio antenna plugs into the PC's communications port and, with the help of Cye's Map-N-Zap software, beams instructions to the robot. Before heading out on an excursion...