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SHOT IN THE DARK Lost in a morass of camcorder specs? Sony's 1998 HandyCam models ($599-$1,399) still offer old standbys like SteadyShot and wireless TV playback, but the standout is the new NightShot feature. Heat-sensitive infrared sensors let you shoot in a pitch-black room, although the washed-out images aren't exactly ready for prime time...
...Comdex, the computer industry's annual Las Vegas hoedown, Wild BILL GATES was feeling the groove at the Harley-Davidson Club on the Strip, dancing with the commoners until the wee hours. To see for yourself, go to ZDNet's PC Week Online zdnet.com/pcweek for a video playback of the Microsoft chairman's floor technique. All in all, it was a fine way to undercut a nasty spate of bad p.r.--if this decade's Darth Vader can cut loose like a heedless frat boy, he can't be all bad, right? Especially with that...
...Mavica ($599; 800-342-5721) lets users transfer digital picture files on cheap floppy disks, making it vastly simpler to shuttle images between the camera and a computer. When it hits stores this summer, Mavica will boast a suite of other features: a zoom lens, a small preview and playback screen and four picture-tinting options. In a nicely anachronistic touch, the camera can sepia-tone any image at the push of a button, using 20th century technology to create an image that looks as if it's from the 1890s...
Virtually every Indian film is a musical. The songs, lip-synched by the actors but sung by "playback artists" who are also stars, dominate the pop charts. This is pop opera, dealing with emotions so convulsive they must be sung and danced, in a solemn, giddy style that critic Peter Rainer calls "Busby Beserkeley." Production numbers, like the eight or nine in God Is My Witness, are simply a declaration of passion by other means...
...lecture and hears from his professor that the course in question is exciting. Much independent thought will be demanded. He is urged to think about the subject, reflect on what he reads, and develop a habit of skepticism. The first quiz, in the student's eyes, calls for the playback of a large number of discrete facts. The message some students hear is that reflection or original thought is for the birds, and memorization will get the 'A.'" Possible student responses to such dissonance "include alienation, cynicism about the academic enterprise, a determination to play the academic game with shrewdness...