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...changes in temperature and humidity to immerse its visitors--and, it hopes, drum up recruits--in harrowing and heroic battlescapes ranging from the icy mountains of Korea to the sweltering jungles of Vietnam. Colonial Williamsburg is looking at supplementing the costumed re-creations that made it an early pioneer in that approach with Palm Pilots that visitors can point at various landmarks to get video presentations...
...Dark Side UNCOVERED: Decades before the graphic novel became trendy, a few Japanese cartoonists were turning out gekiga (dramatic pictures), darkly realistic comic strips that appeared in lowbrow magazines in 1960s Japan. It was a prosperous time for the nation, but viewed through the gimlet eye of gekiga pioneer Yoshihiro Tatsumi, industrialization brought not wealth but alienation and cultural confusion. Nearly 40 years after initial publication, Tatsumi's bizarre, tabloid-inspired manga remains relevant?and this fall, non-Japanese readers will be able to sample the best of it when Abandon the Old in Tokyo, a collection of Tatsumi...
...four features. His deadpan comic sense gives his work a retro-European feel that suits the collection. Tenenbaums, his most agreeable offering, boasts a stellar cast and the emotional edginess of a real-life domestic epic. Among the extras is a revealing documentary portrait of Anderson by cinema verité pioneer Albert Maysles...
...Pink Floyd still machine-tools the kind of head-shop Muzak that they helped pioneer during the first shocks of the '60s psychedelic movement ... The Dark Side of the Moon has sold 61/2 million copies in the U.S. since its release, has been on the charts for 299 weeks and recently rose from the nether regions to occupy a respectable place in the middle ground. This late burst of activity is directly traceable to the surprise success of the new Pink Floyd album, The Wall ... Spacy and seductive and full of high-tech sound stunts, The Wall has a kind...
Here's the situation: You're in a strange city, you've ditched the rental car, and you want to walk around town, check out museums, restaurants and maybe do some shopping. The catch is, you hate looking like a tourist with a giant paper map. Pioneer's AVIC-S1 is one of the first GPS navigators with a "pedestrian" setting. In addition to telling you what interstate exit to take, it plots a path for you along boulevards and side streets, keeping in mind that your walking pace may only be two or three miles per hour...