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...REAR-PROJECTION LCD Three separate LCD chips?red, green and blue?are aimed at a mirror that projects them onto the screen, like regular TV tubes. PRO: Handles all the extra lines of HDTV. CON: Not as thin as flat-panel LCD or plasma TVs. Black areas of the screen look gray. HOT BRAND: Sony...
...when the cathode-ray tube was cutting edge, an average TV cost about $1,000, according to Semenza. Adjusted for inflation, that's $6,700 today?comparable to the most advanced flat-screen TVs. The advent of the flat TV is seen by an electronics industry accustomed to razor-thin margins as a chance to reap some fat profits from a new technology. Japan's Sharp Corp. announced this month that sales of LCD TVs contributed to pushing up profits 40% in the first half of this fiscal year...
...what's cinematic about the musical." The dazzling set (in Schumacher's opening, a dusty, monochrome opera house is restored to its glistening prime by a tidal wave of color) and the driving Lloyd Webber score threaten to steal the show away from its stars. Rossum is a virginal, thin-voiced Christine, and Butler, despite a silky falsetto, hasn't got the range or kick for the big sing. There's a climactic moment on the opera house's snowy roof after the Phantom has eavesdropped on Christine and Raoul. He rages, the orchestra whips up a storm, and Schumacher...
...like, he plays up the tension, pitting his intimidating bravado against his obvious insecurity. It’s the same tension that kept characters like Sal Paradise and Holden Caulfield interesting to us when we were sixteen, and Eminem is compelling for the same reasons. Certainly, the joke runs thin sometimes, and his inability to strike a balance between unabashed silliness (“Ass Like That”) and heavy handed seriousness (“Mosh”) is frustrating. But his flow is only getting better, his rhymes more intricately wound and although his beats are often still...
Though few people here understand the psychological trauma of rejection, the long-term effects of Thin Envelope Syndrome are greater than one might imagine. We must make an effort to be sympathetic to Yalies, who have the unenviable task of starting out college as a disappointment to friends, to family and to themselves. There are probably even a few Harvard students who would find it difficult to thrive after such an inauspicious beginning to their college career. And while the stigma is lifelong, Thin Envelope Syndrome is just that: the beginning...