Word: beams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Springsteen still performs his full show (four hours, counting intermission) and has made no concessions to flash. There are video screens to beam images of the Boss and the E Street Band up to seats where the air may get thin, but Springsteen works hard to retain the feeling of one-on-one communion that has characterized his shows since the early days. Intimacy is lost incrementally as venues and audiences get larger, of course, and Boss fanatics of long standing will have to do a little adjusting to their dreams. Playing music on a ball field may never...
...drama, video production, computer games, fashion design, improved etiquette, community service and pedicure techniques. At traditional camps as well, kids are being allowed to select a few skills on which they'd like to concentrate during the day and to de-emphasize those they don't like. The laser-beam focus is fitting for the modern kid, contends Tina Krinsky, who with her husband runs Julian Krinsky Camps & Programs, based in the Philadelphia area. "For a child used to all kinds of technology, sitting by the lake just isn't enough anymore," she says. Her company offers a variety...
...podcasting satellite radio, for now, she says, "my iPod will do." Sprint, meanwhile, launched a radio network this month (see sidebar). And Motorola is testing a service called iRadio that will allow users to download MP3s and content from Internet stations to a cell phone and, from there, beam it to a car stereo. (Internet radio groups like Live365.com aim to charge fees for that...
This begins with wiring up Kent so that he thinks he is hearing a heaven-sent voice and ends with Hathaway gloriously hoist on his own laser beam. The path between those two points leads through farcical situations, but the Animal House spirit is not present in this academic grove. Real Genius, directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Neal Israel, Pat Proft and Peter Torokvei, is a smart, no-nonsense movie that may actually teach its prime audience a valuable lesson: the best retort to an intolerable situation is not necessarily a food fight. Better results, and more...
...misunderstand me—I love the song. Whenever I hear the lurching guitar progression and the aw-shucks lyrics (“Preppy girls never looked at me / Why should they? / I ain’t nobody, got nothing in my pocket,” etc.), I beam with old-school geek pride and want to get drunk off one beer and run across the Yard...