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...breakthrough came after she met alto saxophonist Steve Coleman, the guru of a group of young musicians in Brooklyn who were trying to find new ways of playing. Coleman got his followers interested in African music, in unusual harmonies and novel forms of organization. "From Steve Coleman," Wilson says, "I learned to tear a piece of music apart and get away from standard approaches. I learned about cycles of rhythm, being able to hear cues in the rhythms instead of chords. And I learned to hear the layering of rhythms. Before that, I had been only studying chords and standard...
...master of cinematic suspense once cited the master of literary suspense, Edgar Allan Poe, as his guru: "I can't help comparing what I've tried to put in my films with what Edgar Allan Poe put in his tales: a completely believable story told to the readers with such a spellbinding logic that you get the impression that the same thing could happen to you tomorrow." In The Man Who Knew Too Much, the murder coincides with a cymbal clash during a night at the symphony; in Rear Window Jimmy Stewart suspects that a murder has taken place across...
...very this minute. It's the exercise cum meditation for the new millennium, one that doesn't so much pump you up as bliss you out. In the U.S., yoga now straddles the continent?from Hollywood, where $20 million-a-picture actors queue for a session with their guru du jour, to Washington, where, in the gym of the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and 15 others faithfully take their class each Tuesday morning...
...cute little device as a kind of "Trojan Dog," selling all kinds of online goods and services to you once you'd become sentimentally attached to the blasted thing. This was based on conversations with Takeshi Yazawa, Sony's Vice President of Entertainment Robots, and an AIBO guru. Yazawa talked in very vague terms about his pup's long term future as an entertainment and information platform; you might take him in the car with you and ask for directions, he said, or have him take pictures of the family with the nose camera and send them to Grandma wirelessly...
...improves upon the novel in two bizarrely funny sequences: Candy's worshipful encounter with drunk Welsh poet McPhisto (Richard Burton), leading to a more-than-peculiar basement menage a quatre involving her Mexican gardener (a "Pepper"-era Ringo Starr doing an incredibly awful accent); and her "lesson" with a guru (Marlon Brando) whose accent keeps changing from East Indian to New Yawk in mid-sentence. Henry and director Christian Marquand's work on the rest of the movie isn't nearly as successful, or true to Southern's style (the gaudy trailer included on the DVD edition of the movie...