Word: unfold
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...There is no popular need right now for multimedia. That's obvious," sighs Michael Joyce, the father of hypertext fiction--nonlinear storytelling in which plot lines unfold in different ways upon subsequent readings. Joyce, an associate professor of English at Vassar College, wrote the "classic" hypertext novel, afternoon, a story. The piece is told one screenful of text at a time; by clicking on adjectives and verbs, readers veer off in far-flung narrative directions. While this may sound like the same experience as following hypertext links around the World Wide Web, afternoon was written in 1987 and distributed...
...world as we know it? It could happen. Events of the past week have brought us to the brink of the ultimate summer blockbuster: a real-life Armageddon that might just be coming to a global economy near you. Here's how it could unfold...
MOSCOW: Russia's leaders ought to pray that things on Earth unfold as they do in space: Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov announced Friday that Russia had found the funds, via "certain extra-budgetary sources," to pay for its continued participation in the international space station project. (Russia has to cough up $240 million this year alone.) Translation: Nemtsov may be hinting at a cosmic bailout. "They?ve been talking to European countries about short-term financing in order to get the thing into space," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "Somebody will probably step into the breach with...
...just after I park myself on the steps of University Hall, staking out the tourists from the statue's right side, a strange scene begins to unfold: I spot a curious-looking old man on the approach. He's wearing a disheveled shirt and tie under a new-looking waterproof jacket, lugging a plastic bag full of garbage satchel-style over his shoulder and holding a half-dozen copies of the Gazette in his other hand. He's plodding steadily toward the statue and as he makes his way past it--get a load of this--he salutes...
...also learned not to confuse the drama of a close call with any sense of urgency. Too often, a young umpire will try to make a call before a play has developed, assuming a sequence of action that eventually fails to unfold. The runner may beat the throw, but will he touch the base? The fielder may coax the ball into his mitt, but will it stay there? The ball may beat the runner, but does...