Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here's a happy scene: a dozen glamorous models wearing cherry-red smocks are cooing contentedly in a dim room, hunched over Virtual Boy, Nintendo's long-awaited, low-cost virtual-reality rig for Everyman. Or Everyboy. Or Everygirl. Whatever. The women are learning how to demonstrate it, fooling around with a prototype of a boxing video game. ("Face down in the goggles, please. That's it. Click here to throw a right, there to throw a left, and don't forget to duck!") But hurry. It's 7:30 a.m., and the wide glass doors are about to swing...
...maybe you'd like to play a little ball yourself. Virtual ball, that is, on a video-game machine more powerful than your desktop computer. Sega, Sony and Nintendo are all racing to get their next-generation video-game players to the U.S. in time to win the hearts and minds of American vidkids next Christmas. Sega and Sony have already introduced new 32-bit game players in Japan, and Nintendo last week gave analysts a sneak preview of what its 64-bit Ultra 64 will look like. The wait -- and the extra computer power -- seemed worth it; in action...
...sudden, it looks like a good deal." So is Newt Gingrich nanny to the nation? He will certainly get to conciliate and cajole, to deal and dole out, to demand and deliver -- with all the clout of a victorious revolutionary, with all the prestige of a virtual President...
...actual and virtual Presidents prepared for the week with different evocations of political power. Clinton spent the first few days in Arkansas on vacation. He did not seem like a man with many worries as he went duck hunting with four old friends in the east Arkansas lowlands. At a local restaurant he chatted up patrons and posed for pictures. Still, he was winsome and a little wistful, enthusiastic about his home state, reluctant about returning to Washington. Referring to birds he had seen earlier, sitting by the hundreds in fields along the road, he said, "I identify with those...
...matter how hard such programs are bashed by conservatives, it doesn't alter the fact that public broadcasting has produced a virtual treasure chest of documentaries dealing with the humanities, politics and the sciences. What Gingrich has forgotten in his unrelenting zeal to wipe out the "liberal media" is that more than a million children in his home state of Georgia actually learn reading and language skills through the programs broadcast by the Children's Television Workshop...