Word: cd
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...philes are also suckers. Not just in the way all fans get suckered into buying product tie-ins. (Although, in that way too: a $55 X-Files CD-ROM game was just released, and, of course, the sound track is already out.) We're suckered by Carter's inanities--lapses of story and logic that you might expect from a guy who used to write about surfing. In the various Web chat rooms, we grandly contort ourselves to make it all make sense, to press hard continuity into the moist irregularities he offers up every week. His rare moments...
...clad in an untucked purple shirt, jeans and Fila sneakers. He has played in the U.S. before, but this month he is embarking on his first sizable Stateside tour, one of the most extensive by any Cuban performer since the embargo began in 1962. Valdes has a new solo CD to promote, Bele Bele en la Habana (Blue Note), an album of virtuosity and intellect and sorcery that could just turn out to be the attention-grabbing Kind of Blue of Cuban jazz...
...sign Cuban performers, the American companies sometimes step in as Stateside distributors. In other cases, the musicians are signed by the American companies' foreign subsidiaries--Valdes, for example, is technically signed to EMI Canada, making it possible for EMI's Blue Note label in the U.S. to release his CD...
...rewards may only be realized when linked to the responsibilities of academic achievement, a program that is run lightly in harness. Gelernter's worst fears will certainly be realized if school districts make room for computers by throwing out library books and exchanging print-reference material for stacks of CD-ROMS. This is not an unlikely future, but it is one I would just as soon avoid. BURGESS NEEDLE, Librarian Safford Engineering/Technology Magnet Middle School Tucson, Ariz...
About a billion of those magnetic word tiles already decorate refrigerators and file cabinets. This week the makers of Magnetic Poetry kits leap onto your PC. A $30 ElectroMagnetic Poetry CD-ROM sends word chips skimming the background of your choice (our favorite: the Fruit Loops). Just click and drag the words you want onto a palette, and voila...