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...been five years since the spirituality-seeking Madonna, dressed in a sari and adorned with a tilaka marking on her forehead, sang a self-composed Sanskrit song at the MTV awards before a backdrop of Hindu god images?simultaneously raising the West's awareness of Hinduism and incurring the ire of the religion's faith police. Things Indian have only gotten trendier since. But as Madonna discovered, cashing in on Hinduism can be a mixed blessing...
When all the athletes were finally in place, standing in the spot where 2,162,000 liters of magic lake water had been drained in just three minutes, Bjork performed a song about mother earth while her dress morphed into a map of the world that stretched over the heads of the athletes. It was the largest printed photograph ever. Bjork was followed by Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, the woman widely credited with saving the Athens Games from their own inertia in 2000. Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who smiles even when she's not smiling, got Greek pride going again and welcomed...
...offers too few options for customization and costs too much compared with computer-based solutions, which are free except for the price of your computer. The most obvious problem is the clumsy interface, which appears on your TV screen and makes it impossible to see a list of songs you have marked as favorites or to quickly find a specific song you want to hear. Anyone who has created playlists on a computer will be disappointed to see that uMusic lets you make only one fixed playlist...
Here's how it works: first you load your CDs, one at a time, into the CD player. It takes about five minutes to rip each disc and convert tracks into MP3s. Then each time you play a song, you can either mark it as a favorite (using the "+" button on the remote) or give it a thumbs-down (with the "--" button). The uMusic system stores your preferences, then creates customized presets that play songs you have indicated you like, as well as tunes from your collection that have a similar mood, melody or genre. It makes these calculations using...
DIED. DAVID RAKSIN, 92, composer of scores for more than 100 Hollywood films and 300 TV shows who was best known for the haunting theme song of the 1944 film noir Laura; in Van Nuys, Calif...