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BRINGING UP DIGITAL BABY It cries, it fidgets, it coos, and it does doo-doo. But this is no ordinary baby. It's a virtual tot that crawls around on your computer screen after you install the PC CD-ROM called Babyz by Mindscape ($30). And why not? If we can practice our nurturing skills feeding Tamagotchis, tickling Furbies and ordering our pet robots around, surely we can "adopt" a virtual baby or two. After naming your bundle of software joy, you can pop it into the changing room for a bath and dress it in impossibly cute bunny suits...
...instance, the Boston dialect is commonly thought to be in immediate danger of disappearing, but the traditional linguistic features associated with it have been replaced by new distinctive characteristics. A Bostonian might not say "cah" any more - for car - but they will say potato puff for tater tot. Sprinkles will be jimmies. And they'll use terms like "triple-decker" and "grinder," which don't really appear outside of the region. Vaux says he could probably identify where a person is from, by asking under ten questions regarding such idiosyncracies in language. He explains that one of the main reasons...
...Gershwin's rhymes and wordplays are magnificent; a sampling of memorable ones might include the description of Wintergreen as "the ruler of our Government/the one who taught what love meant' and the description of the First Baby as a "Dictator-tot." As Lisa Olmos notes in the program booklet, "Of Thee I Sing/ is a florid testament of Ira's skill at "letting the melody fit the rhyme...
...started inventing when he was just a tot," said Anne-Marie C. Amparo, director of the Lemelson-MIT program, which gives the award...
...from anything that's too deeply felt. The title track is cuddly, though, and already a hit single. A few of her songs, including the pleasantly modern ballad E-Mail My Heart, indeed deliver a sugar high, and may well win over the very same crowd that goes for tot-pop acts like the Spice Girls and Brandy. But ultimately not enough of this album excites, involves or surprises. Like youth itself, the pleasures of this debut are fleeting...