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...Internet access device, the Treo works well enough, given the current slow data transmission speeds of Asian cellular networks. The monochrome screen isn't vivid, but Treo's display will improve when a color screen version becomes available in late summer. Where the device really shines is as a phone. All the normal functions such as caller ID and the ability to automatically capture incoming numbers are there. The Treo also solves a common mobile phone irritant. You can look up a number during a call, a function absent from conventional mobiles. Dialing is a snap. Just type...
...think that Americans, inflamed by television, are moving in the opposite direction - toward haragei and away from intelligent argument about anything. Television detests an open mind. An open mind is bad theater. What television wants is passion, vivid characters defined only by the positions that they hold, the ideas that they enact: heroes and villains, politics as extreme fighting. Television's idea of good civics is people screaming at each other from opposite sides of an issue for the entertainment of a nation of groundlings. And television's bottom-feeding, bottom-lining imperatives (a noisy swordplay of issues...
...control I had felt on the skis (out of hours of pounding and snow-eating) and the excitement of working out on the actual Olympic course at Lake Placid (even though I was as far from Olympic glory as I was from being an astronaut) were much more vivid in my memory than the nasty, discouraging, humiliating, painful part of the trip, and by the time my ass stopped hurting I was ready for more...
...Chavez (admittedly a borderline case, never a full-time career columnist) is a different matter. She is, I would argue, a vivid warning to other columnists: Don't try to cross the line...
...EMERSON QUARTET Shostakovich String Quartets (DGG). Shostakovich turned Stalin's Great Terror into art in his 15 string quartets, a laceratingly vivid document interpreted here by America's greatest quartet...