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...DREAMS (Musicmasters). If tone, swing and dexterity are the prime criteria for jazz clarinet playing, color Kenny Davern a virtuoso. Hot (Royal Garden Blues) or cool (My Melancholy Baby), Davern gives a dazzling performance that shows why he's such a standout among the post-Goodman generation...
...than it's possible." Others are skeptical that optics can compete with electronic computers. Says Bernard Soffer, senior scientist at Hughes Aircraft Research: "Optical computers would have to be ten to 100 times better than electronic ones to justify retooling." Even enthusiasts are guarded. Says optical-computing pioneer Joseph Goodman, a Stanford electrical- engineerin g professor who was once Huang's teacher: "The first commercial general-purpose optical computer will appear between the year 2000 and infinity, and it may be closer to infinity...
...instance, when Ellen Goodman and I met with her to discuss a possible fellow-ship for women who have reached prominence and success but must leave their jobs for ethical or other reasons, Wilson listened attentively and asked us to think about how it might involve undergraduate women...
...wine cellar); "We lie together, Pan and Ceres, the god of the woods and the goddess of grain" (afterglow). Half the novel is about her ill-fated passion; the rest is her resume. Leila did the '60s ("I produced happenings with Yoko Ono") and civil rights ("Mississippi with Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney"). She sounds a little like the pathological liar on Saturday Night Live: Yeah, that's it, I dated Martin Luther King, that's the ticket...
Woody goes after that sound in two ways. First, by using a wide open mouthpiece and a very hard reed -- a Rico Royale No. 5 -- which provides a lot of volume but requires cast-iron lips to play. (Benny Goodman once borrowed Woody's clarinet for a sit-in and had to shave the reed down with a kitchen knife before he could get a toot out of it.) Second, by playing an Albert System clarinet -- an antiquated, wide-bore instrument based on a virtually obsolete fingering method. Why the Albert System? "Because all the guys I liked played...