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...known simply as "PC by Sony," but the $3,000 desktop unit, set to hit the shelves later this summer, is emphatically being presented by the Japanese behemoth as anything but a traditional computer. Instead Sony is positioning the sleek gray box as the first step on the road to digital "home media stations," machines that will combine video, stereo and Internet access. That may be a visionary strategy--or a clever way to lower expectations for a product that drew mixed reviews at last week's PC Expo in New York City. Herewith, a look at the features Sony...
...Paul Gray...
...give these already robust female figures a sculptural air: you feel the gale blowing their aprons into spinnakers. Homer had to have been looking at the Parthenon marbles in the British Museum, with their fluent drapery rippling across limbs and torso. Sometimes these shawled women, silhouetted against the scudding gray, have the presence of Greek mourners. At Cullercoats he found a basic image: man (or woman) against the sea, the self in the enormous, indifferent context of nature...
...Florida and the Adirondacks. Its steep, sea-gnawed granite ledges became the emblematic landscape of his finest work. No artist since Turner had painted the sea with such lyric concentration, from the beaming blue transparency of the Caribbean, captured in masterly watercolors, to the sullen beat and topple of gray combers driven by an Atlantic gale on the Maine rocks. Cannon Rock, 1895, with its high horizon line and broad V of incoming waves framed by dark rocks, exactly captures the sensation of standing on an exposed promontory with the sea coming straight at you, like a wall...
...Paul Gray...