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...attack. The loss devastated Didion so completely that she entered a state of temporary insanity: She literally believed that she could bring her husband back to her. The Year of Magical Thinking is the story of her slow acceptance of what had happened, her journey from madness to the duller, deeper pain of mourning. To watch one of our most acute, acerbic social observers turn her attention to the collapse of her own psyche is to witness an act of consummate personal and artistic bravery...
...picture-quality test. What more could you ask for? How about built in red-eye removal? Print from a memory card and any shot with red-eye will be fixed on the fly. It really works. HP also boasts some other internal technologies. One is SmartFocus, which sharpens up duller images; another is Adaptive Lighting. A hallmark of HP's imaging products, this mainly lightens faces that have been darkened by light flooding in from behind. Some people call that a "fill flash...
...surround sound is made for five speakers, we only have two ears. Sound from each of the five speakers ricochets off every surface in a room, reaching our ears at different times. Our brains analyze it all to discern where the sound is coming from. (Sound from behind is duller, because it has to pass through the skin flaps of our ears.) The headphones come with processors that analyze incoming sound tracks and transform them into two-channel tracks. This replicates the behavior of sound coming from five speakers and a subwoofer that would bounce around a room before landing...
...Indiana Senator and former Governor might not carry his conservative home state but could help in neighboring Ohio, a key swing state with 20 Electoral College votes. The boyish-looking moderate is not a fireball, though. A Kerry-Bayh ticket could be dull and duller...
...utter a simple sentence, but his orotundities also serve to reinforce the notion that the Senator from Massachusetts is a patrician stiff, too smug to speak in a manner decipherable by ordinary Americans. In fairness, John Kerry has been as sick as a dog these past few weeks and duller than he might ordinarily be--but there was a real sense last week that Kerry, assuming victory, had lapsed into flabby aristocratic entitlement, a persona he inhabits when not in mortal combat...