Word: reared
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...Yaz’s sake, cry me a river! Buy a 50-plus dollar ticket and park your rear in the bleachers like the next...
...quite incomprehensible as well: a number of green poles topped with hexagonal lights cover the stage. It is unclear what these are supposed to represent (trees? stars? streetlights? fairy stop signs?); their chief function seems to be to clutter the stage. The branchlike or possibly rootlike structure at the rear right of the stage, as well as the green chicken-wire arranged around the exits, are equally puzzling. They do contribute a sense of the outdoors and pastoral life that would be associated with the shepherd Strephon, but since they are constantly on stage, including during the scenes that take...
...allow them to go after other product categories dominated by Japanese makers. American tech companies are working behind the scenes: Corning makes glass for the displays, and Texas Instruments has created a low-price, flat-screen alternative to the biggest plasma-TV sets with its DLP (digital light processing) rear-projection technology. "Just when you think innovation is dead, this shows you that it's very much alive," says Kevin Landis, chief investment officer for Firsthand Funds, an investment firm based in San Jose, Calif...
...Consumer Reports published its first ranking of flat-panel televisions in March, in response to thousands of letters from readers begging for a little guidance, says Gerard Catapano, who supervised the magazine's test. While there were some standouts in each category--conventional TVs, plasma, LCD and rear-projection--there was no clear winner. Each technology has its inherent drawbacks. The best picture-tube and rear-projection televisions, for example, can weigh more than 200 lbs. Plasma sets (named for the pixels of gas in the screen that are turned into plasma by an electrical charge) can sometimes experience "burn...
Three years ago next week, I began this column, with the intent of focusing a gilded rear-view mirror on classic pop culture. And one of my favorite excuses for a story is to celebrate somebody?s 100th birthday...