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Decking the halls may not be so frustrating this year with Litewire, a new lighting product that banishes those infernal nests of tangled Christmas lights. The energy-efficient illuminated wire comes in three colors and lengths, and it's flexible and cool to the touch. From $11.99 to $19.99 at amazon.com...
...they can stand it. Don Cheadle's performance notwithstanding, Hotel Rwanda ultimately fell back on the Schindler's-List template of one-good-man-against-the-world Hollywood uplift. April was unsparing, without being gratuitous, in showing how horrific yet casual the violence was, and Idris Elba (The Wire) was stunning as a Rwandan officer who came to see the light too late to save his mixed-ethnicity family. Equally important, this movie explored the important -- if sometimes impossible -- process of reconciliation and justice in present-day Rwanda. I doubt I could bear watching this movie a second time...
...Pioneer Elite VSX-72TXV Receiver (pioneerelectronics.com; $1,200): This mammoth audio-video surround-sound receiver takes all different types of video, from DVDs, VCRs, cable boxes - you name it-and routes them through one wire to your high-definition TV. It's compatible with XM satellite radio's new "Connect and Play" technology: you plug in the special XM antenna and, as long as you've got a subscription, you get all of the XM stations listed right on the receiver's display, and on the TV. In fact, this receiver has so many bells and whistles, it's easy...
...Coalition also created a six-foot tall papier-maché AIDS ribbon, which they put in front of the Science Center. While making the paper maché ribbon, Basilico said he thought of HAC’s main display, an AIDS ribbon made of red Christmas lights and chicken wire that is still hanging in front of Grays Hall in Harvard Yard. At night, the three-story ribbon, which took six hours to create, is easily the most conspicuous object in the Yard. “I just hope that it starts generating dialogue,” said J. Claire...
...narrative and non-linear,” Lin said of the work, which partially involves her own nostalgia for the campus. “People say, ‘How do you read this?’ Any way you want.”Another work, a suspended wire sculpture portraying ocean-floor topography, combines her interest in landscapes and “peripheral perceptions.”She said she intends her works to “point out what we don’t see, what we don’t realize.” The wire portrays...