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...thought back to last season when we had a rocky beginning,” sophomore Tricia Tubridy said. “The B.U. loss was a really tough loss for us and that was the kind of loss that we felt last year. It was a wake-up call because no one wanted to feel that way again. We were determined to prove to ourselves that we weren’t going to slide...
...PHILIPS 13PR11M Not all 13-in. televisions are created equal. This Philips model comes in three colors (silver, white and metallic blue), and its QuadraSurf remote lets you group your favorite channels together by genre and flip through them with a single button. It also has a built-in wake-up timer, so you can kiss your clock radio good-bye. www.usa.philips.com...
Still, two major electronic movements in recent memory have served as wake-up calls to America: the current trendiness of rave culture, led by superstar DJs and corporate entities, and 1997’s “electronica” craze. The latter saw a flurry of sensationalist stories in music magazines that envisioned the rock paradigm being overtaken by a legion of keyboard-wielding techno-freaks, in some kind of premillennial musical cyborg invasion. The truth was that artists like Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers themselves represented a rock-happy crossover breed, integrating elements from rave culture in order...
...unexplained, from left to right and out of shot. Back again, and now the frame is filled by a Chinese man who fishes out the case with an umbrella, stands it by the pond and walks away. Is this a case full of Hsiao-kang's fantasies, or a wake-up call to Shiang-chyi to pack her bags and return to Taipei? As patient as a century, Tsai's canvas in What Time deserves its own gallery...
...scale few Asian filmmakers have attempted, China's first disaster picture, Crash Landing, assumes a Bruckheimeresque bravura. Modeled loosely on the 1970 disaster epic Airport, this reworking and its often realistic digital effects suggest China's sense of cinema as solid commercial entertainment has arrived. The film is a wake-up call to the country's domestic industry and should set alarm bells ringing in the rest of the world...