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...there with Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Tony Bennett; "one of our four or five most awe-inspiring and most popular mainstream vocalists" is the way Will Friedwald sums it up in his kinetic and knowledgeable essays accompanying the set. Along with that considerable distinction, Cole was also a superb keyboard man, mightily influenced by the great Earl Hines and able to hold his own against -- if not precisely surpass -- his mentor and the likes of Art Tatum. When he became a pop superstar, he gradually shed the bass and guitar that had been the foundation of his trio sound...
...editing on a VCR calls for extraordinary patience and split-second timing. That's where the computers come in. With an automated editing machine -- like Videonics' $599 DirectED PLUS -- instructions for making cuts can be punched into a keyboard as the footage rolls by on a TV screen. The computer remembers the markings, and when the tape is played again, the machine automatically splices together the chosen sequences. Computers can also be used to generate titles, graphics and fancy scene shifts -- like the "tumble," in which one image seems to turn over to reveal another...
...before his death in 1982, the legendary pianist Glenn Gould decided to experiment with the idea of becoming a conductor. Since he had abdicated the concert stage 18 years earlier, he & quietly rented a hall and hired some members of the Toronto Symphony. Though most famous for his electric keyboard interpretations of Bach, Gould chose for his orchestral debut Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, which he took at a glacially languorous tempo. When it was over, he blurted onto the tape an accurate verdict: "Gorgeous! Magnificent! Heartbreaking!" Along with that performance, the newly released album contains Gould's superb piano transcriptions...
...advantage. More than 80% of all personal computers use the company's DOS, while an additional 3% use OS/2. One rival, Go Corp., charges that Microsoft swiped its idea for a software system that operates computers through a stylus capable of writing on the screen rather than through a keyboard. Microsoft (along with Hewlett-Packard) is also the target of a suit filed by Apple charging the company with illegally copying the "look and feel" of its Macintosh graphics software...
...exactly do they do this? Well, they master recording-studio technology. (Cole: "It's hard to reproduce a guitar sound without being able | to play a guitar, but you can do just about anything else with a keyboard and a computer.") Then they hit the streets to find their stars. "We just go out and look," Cole insists. "We look in churches, clubs, restaurants. You see somebody walking down the street humming to themselves. You walk closely so you see how they sound. Then you ask them. You see someone who has the right look. You stop them...