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...used to capture voice clips or, eventually, even to record simultaneously a digital version of your film picture. For now, APS picture quality is roughly the same as 35-mm film. And like 35 mm, APS is available in different film speeds to match varying light conditions or snare fast-action shots. (As a rule, the slower the film speed, the sharper the resolution.) A note to travelers: APS film can be hard to find outside the U.S. and Japan, so stock up before leaving on that trip to foreign shores...
...Lady, Your Roof Brings Me Down" is the album's second single, but its obvious take on Bowie's cabaret-inflected songs on (you guessed it) Hunky Dory fails because it's precisely that--too obvious. Not even Sheryl Crow playing accordion saves the skittering strings and shuffling snare from being unengaging and pedestrian. The last two tracks, "Mockingbird Girl" and "Opposite Octave Reaction," are fuzzed-out noise rockers--cleverly produced, but utterly uncompelling...
...team's all-time leader in steals--with 104 more than any other Harvard player--leaped high in the air to snare a Mountain Hawk pass at the top of the key on Harvard's end of the floor. She began the break and dished a pass to the right block where fellow senior Alison Seanor had one defender between her and an easy deuce...
...Dvorak, the score provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the orchestra's varied colors. Especially striking was the percussion ensemble of the second movement, consisting of triangle, tom-tom, snare drum, cymbal, wood block, gong and chimes. After an initial statement, the ensemble returned to a perfectly executed dynamic rise and fall. In the third movement, the flute performed the solo melody effectively with a sort of rubato, freely suspended over the rest of the orchestra...
...another, 'working in its traditional, coordinated, flawless, non-competitive, polyphonic, friction-free way--so that sights can be raised; crescent moons can become full; tides can swell; and all our tubs can paddle off together, to the happy isles, where there will never be Jabberwocks or even Snarks to snare or bedevil...