Word: sharpness
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Whenever Spirit finally starts to travel, it will have no shortage of targets. The vehicle's nine cameras have been drinking in images of the surrounding terrain and beaming them back to Earth in brilliantly sharp resolution, sometimes even in 3-D. Every day six teams of J.P.L. scientists gather in a large, classroom-like office to study the pictures on several 6-ft.-wide projection screens, smaller laptop-size screens and flat electronic slates. What they have found has intrigued and in some cases mystified them...
TIVO OR NOT TIVO? Sharp will soon ship its own wireless Aquos LCD TV, but it's the newly announced Open Aquos that has the most promising feature: a basic-function video recorder (and removable hard drive). It won't replace a TiVo, but the 15-in. or 20-in. models can pause live TV or save news, soaps or talk shows hours--or days--after they have aired...
...sharp contrast to Weinstein's brutish antics, Sundance founder Robert Redford's influence over the indie world is portrayed as Zen-like, though the actor's enigmatic, elusive nature keeps him mostly in shadows throughout the book. (Unlike Weinstein, Redford refused to talk to Biskind.) Still, Redford emerges long enough to double-cross his former protege, Steven Soderbergh, whose sex, lies, and videotape was shown in Park City in 1989, by plucking the movie Quiz Show out from under him. Redford sabotages his own efforts to launch a Sundance Cinemas chain by hooking up with a financially unstable partner...
...many older Americans the desire to continue learning and growing intellectually still burns bright--some are even earning degrees after long and productive careers. And they're happily cracking open their nest eggs for a condo tucked inside the ivory tower. "People retiring these days want to stay sharp, and this kind of connection with a college is enormously attractive," says David Schless, president of the American Seniors Housing Association...
...titles of every other book Hume wrote; don’t just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of “contemporary decadence,” like Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...