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...only downside I found was that at 2 lbs., the Digital8 is bigger than most digital cameras, which can weigh half as much and are half as large, as in the case of Canon's ZR Mini-DV Camcorder ($900). And while Digital8 has better resolution and color saturation than Hi8, it requires twice as much tape: a 60-min. Hi8 tape will record only 30 min. of digital video...
...digital tapes are much easier to edit on a PC; an analog tape first must be converted to digital, which is cumbersome. Perhaps the best news is this: for the next year, Sony is expected to have the only Digital8s on the market. That may well put pressure on Canon, Sharp, JVC and Panasonic to drop the prices of their standard digital cameras. Let's just hope they do it by Father...
...Hippocratic oath keeps it simple, reminding physicians that first, they must do no harm. No one in medical history violated that canon with more murderous zeal than Germany's Dr. Mengele...
...challenges the limits of such a canon by examining lesbian desire. Each section of the story begins with an ignorant question posed by a heterosexual, such as "Why Do You Sleep With Girls?" and "Which One of You Is the Man?" The narrator's complex and playfully oblique answers assert the legitimacy of her love though they never really tell us a story--veering instead towards commentary and description. I see the lack of substantial plot in Winterson's writing less as a flaw in her abilities as raconteur and more as her attempt to defy the genre of short...
...kind of self-dare, I decided to immerse myself in the male-weepie canon, even though this meant viewing certain films I had been avoiding for decades, like Brian's Song, Bang the Drum Slowly and The Great Santini. I also read Death of a Salesman and sought out a recording of the old Harry Chapin song Cat's in the Cradle. Certain themes obviously undergird these works: dying fathers, dying athletes, dead fathers, dead athletes. These are romances, to be sure, but instead of the overblown, tear-jerking gestures of male-female romances, the car crashes and death caves...