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...takes a moment to realize what I am seeing: a monkey in a tree. To be specific, it is a black spider monkey (Ateles paniscus) swinging through the topmost branches of a ceiba tree in the rain forest in Suriname, the former Dutch Guyana, north of Brazil. Thick-furred, with a red face, the monkey moves by sprawling out and brachiating from branch to branch through the high forest canopy; its long, prehensile tail functions as an arm. It pauses and looks down with the cool expression of a teenager. A monkey in a tree...
...Institute. After careful consideration, he related, "we convinced ourselves that the image of meat should be a virile one, best expressed in red meat." At the time it was highly unusual, even distasteful, to portray uncooked meat in advertisements. Enthusiastically breaking the code, Burnett produced full-page ads depicting thick chops of raw red meat against a bright-red background. "Red against red was a trick," he explained, "but it was a natural thing to do. It just intensified the red concept and the virility and everything else we were trying to express. This was inherent drama in its purest...
...good: the songs on the second disk (1980-83) often feel as if they might have been perfect for 1984's Born in the U.S.A., but there is almost always something missing, a glaring or a tiny imperfection. Songs like "Roulette" and "Dollhouse" ring with energy, but are not thick enough to conceal infantile lyrics ("Roulette, that's the name/Roulette, that's the game now"); "I Want to Be with You" hooks the listener on the chorus, but repeats itself endlessly. As on the first disk, Springsteen teaches the listener something by revealing his musical influences more clearly than ever...
...even newer model, the Vaio 505FX, people looking for a great on-the-road machine should check out Toshiba's Portege 3010CT. The Portege weighs 2.9 lbs. and still packs a 10.4-in. active-matrix color screen, a 4.3-gigabyte hard disk and a 56K modem into its 3/4-in.-thick box. Both machines have 266-MHz Pentium chips and 90%-size keyboards, and both are in the $2,000 price range. The Sony is $100 cheaper, but I prefer the Toshiba because it has what I think of as a belly-button-style pointing device, as opposed to Sony...
...creature with a long thin snout like a crocodile, thick legs like tree trunks, huge curved claws like meat hooks..." --San Francisco Chronicle...