Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...literacy, promoting such solidly challenging fare as Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon along with such worthy popular entertainments as Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone. Her book-club selections are instant megasellers, even when, like The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton, they have fallen into virtual obscurity. The result for publishers has been happy confusion. The lucky books are rushed back to the presses for multiple, emergency printings, and publicists are running in circles trying to play the new game. "Authors of books on subjects like libertarianism phone me up and say, 'Get me on Oprah!'" reports...
...week before, Kaplan gave a virtual MCAT," Zinaman says. The practice exam simulated every aspect of the real thing, she says, with the exception of fingerprinting the test-takers...
...Star Wars, it's just, to us, it's just like going on a holodeck. We've been training on a holodeck...[and] now it's time to stop. The game's over. It's time to put into practice what we've learned. We take off the virtual-reality helmet...go back out of the holodeck to reality to be with, you know, the other members on the craft in the heavens...
...streaming video software, users have been able to watch real-time versions of such 20-min. shorts as Chaplin's The Rink and Keaton's The Boat, a different one airing about every six weeks. Despite its small, 2-in. by 2.5-in. viewing window (elegantly set within a virtual Art Deco theater), the site's array of low-tech physical humor and grainy black-and-white images has garnered more than 100,000 hits from over 70 countries in just two months...
...through this semester, in the face of dropping numbers and the virtual paralysis of the peer counselors, the administration shifted their policy slightly. Peer counseling groups can now initiate contact with a proctor group's peer counseling representative, but the peer reps still have no obligation to do outreaches and are only provided with the barest outlines of a job description...