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Bursts of celebratory gunfire went up as dawn broke in Baghdad, where news of Saddam Hussein's execution reached people as they awoke.? After the echoes of the shots faded, people went to their televisions and waited for the images to come.? Everyone was certain the Iraqi government would air...
Giving someone a shiny silver frame used to be a good way to avoid hunting down a real present. Not anymore. Thanks to the falling price of liquid-crystal display (LCD) screens and the fact that everybody has a digital camera, electronic-photo frames are popular gifts this year, ones...
The biggest difference among the frames I tested was in picture quality. Better LCD screens have vibrant colors and deep black levels; poorer ones display washed-out colors, and charcoal gray instead of black. In this regard, the Philips 9-in. 9FF2M4 frame ($250) stood out.
But now, when the frustration of admiring-but not touching-everything from a 17th century rocking horse or Javanese shadow puppets through to vintage Playstations and Pokémon shoes gets too much, there are giant magnetic-doodle screens, fiber-optics and a wooden wave machine to play with. And...
Of course Hollywood has become less bashful about painting movie screens red in recent decades, but does this violence necessarily make for better films? Not really. Few filmmakers this season have shown a real mastery of violence as an aesthetic technique.