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...still cringing from memories of your kid's Tamagotchi pet, then you would do well to steer clear of a disturbingly similar new noisemaker. Trendmaster's C-Watches ($20) sport an LCD screen with a cartoon character that speaks the time out loud and makes various inane comments throughout the day. Kids can choose from the flatulent Mr. Tooty, an air-headed Girly Girl or an ill-humored Hothead. Luckily, there's a kill switch for the sound effects...
...lecture lasted more than two hours, and dragged toward the end when Koch displayed the Wallace Stevens poem "Anecdote of the Jar" on an overhead projector to demonstrate some keys to reading poetry. Alarmingly, he turned Stevens' very sophisticated poem into a cartoon,delighting in the story of "this magic little jarwhich conquers Tennessee," and, while allowingthat more nuanced readings of the poem werepossible, he seemed so strongly by temperament toresist such readings that he effectively arguedagainst them. The key to enjoying this poem, heheld, lay in the music of its sounds and thesilliness of its story, and there...
...directperception, the simple truths honed fromcomplexity, so present in "Straits." Koch seemsvery much to want not only his poetry, butpoetry to be accessible to everyone, andalmost immediately accessible: in reducing his ownwork to homilies and jokes, Koch showed the sametemperament that allowed him to turn the Stevenspoem into a cartoon, sacrificing what hederisively referred to as "meaning" for what heseemed to consider counter to it, "pleasure...
...bottom of some kid's shoe (allowing unusual camera angles that will really excite the graphics techies.) These shots are "cool," but do make it seem like an Imax documentary on the "lives of an ant" has been artlessly spliced into a generic Disney "plebian saves princess" cartoon...
More luxury boxes for me, more crappy teal and/or purple teams with cartoon character logos for you. It's better for both of us. Trust...