Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good time to be in the market for computer-based video-editing gear; you can find plenty of devices for under $300. I tried the Matrox Marvel G200-TV ($299), and I highly recommend it for the home videomaker. It's a Swiss Army Knife kind of thing, with a video and graphics accelerator (which makes everything from spreadsheets to games look better on your monitor), 2-D and 3-D accelerator, and even a TV tuner (you can watch television on your PC if you attach your cable). Best of all, it has a chip that quickly compresses video...
...need at least a Pentium-level PC running at 166 megahertz, plus a sound card, a CD-ROM drive and 2 gigabytes of free space. Storage is especially critical because the Marvel chews up 90 megabytes for each minute of video. Another hurdle: to install the Marvel card, you have to open the computer case, an experience I relish as much as home brain surgery. Truthfully, though, setup was pretty painless. I was in and out in less than 10 minutes...
Musically, one might criticize the Cardigans for their lack of originality. Admittedly, it does seem somewhat faddish and even artificial for them to embrace the trendy electronica sound after every other band and their mothers have already dressed up as techno gear-heads. Dusky distortions on tracks like "Marvel Hill" sound a lot like vintage Portishead and the guitar-driven "Starter" disturbingly suggests an even catchier Aimee Mann impersonation...
...McNally's best, most moving and personal works. His updating of the Christ story is witty but not patronizing, as sober and cleansing as a dip in baptismal water. Joe Mantello's production--a bare stage, apostles clad in identical white shirts and khakis--is a marvel of spare inventiveness. And the hushed audience reaction at the climax testifies to an artistic success that will outlast the howling...
...Violin and Basso Continuo by Jean-Marie Leclair, which she performed with Cunningham and Moll. Huggett and Cunningham have performed together as part of a chamber group, the Trio Sonnerie, and it showed in the lively interplay between the two musicians. Huggett's clear, sharp playing was a marvel, and both Cunningham and Moll, who provided a solid background to Huggett's soaring violin, ably supported...