Word: dumbfoundment
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Every so often we're dumbfounded by the newest thing to come along: the iPod, the TiVo, even, once upon a time, the VCR and the Walkman. The Slingbox definitely does its part to dumbfound. It's not a DVD player, or a cable box, or a video recorder like TiVo. It's a little manager, shaped like a brick of gold bullion, that takes video sources like cable TV, TiVo and DVD, and sends the signal to your PC. What's crazy is that it doesn't matter if your PC is in the next room or in Singapore...
...gold star, then, to Jane and Louise Wilson, to those who dumbfound. Not just to those who make old ladies faint and the complacent squirm, but to those who remind us that making sense of art is not always enough, that sometimes you just have to love it first. Two of the Wilsons' video installations, "Crawl Space" and "Stasi City," are showing at the MIT's List Visual Arts Center through April 9, in a rare U.S. appearance and a lucky one for Boston. To find more of the Wilsons' work now showing in this country you have to travel...
This is why The Coop's prices continue to dumbfound us, and why the store will continue to thrive in Cambridge, along with student angst and complacency. Thank you, the manager says, herding you toward the door, and would you please form a line in front of the register...
Harvard's poor start cost it the game, as the Bruins steamrolled to a commanding 32-19 lead. Brown's freshman forward Donna Yaffe dominated the first 10 minutes of play, popping in 12 points, and continued to dumbfound the Crimson five with her game-high 30 points...
Harvard's poor start cost it the game, as the Bruins steamrolled to a commanding 32-19 lead. Brown's freshman forward Donna Yaffe dominated the first 10 minutes of play, popping in 12 points, and continued to dumbfound the Crimson five with her game-high 30 points...