Now paranoid parents would be more likely to suffer misty-eyed nostalgia over the era when gaming involved constant and varied use of the young mind's imagination, as opposed to today's games which typically offer the user images where once there was only the mind's eye.

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Indians, once fixed in the American mind's eye as bands of howling savages bent on doing no good to John Wayne, are nowadays more often seen as the devoted children of Mother Earth, determined to preserve the planet for future generations.

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's mind's eye, it would be the fearful apparition of the Netherlands' Neelie Kroes, the EU Commissioner for Competition.

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Think Bozeman, Montana, and your mind's eye pictures Forbes 400 moguls hopping out of Gulfstreams and jumping into waiting Range Rovers at the Yellowstone Jet Center.

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