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...equal clarity to the foreground and the far horizon. Blu-ray gives a 3-D impression, as if the figures in a scene were in your room; you could almost walk among and touch them. The sensation is the same with old black-and-white films like The Third Man, where the Vienna streets gleam with an almost erotic palpability. Any movie that looks good in another format - Sleeping Beauty, Raging Bull, Chungking Express, The Passion of the Christ - will look better on Blu-ray. Different, deeper, better. Realer...
...ToDVDs are fine. We thought so before Blu-ray and still do. They were a big advance over videocassettes in clarity and durability; whereas a cassette, like a vinyl record or an eight-track, deteriorated simply by being played, DVDs don't erode with age. The Searchers, The Third Man, The Dark Knight and WALL?E all look terrific on DVD. As terrific as on Blu-ray? Not quite. But what are we, eye doctors...
...Princeton’s offense has been a two-man show that posed problems for Harvard and the other Ivies this season. Sophomore guard Dan Mavraides and freshman guard Douglas Davis have been dominating outside the arc, with Mavraides leading the league by shooting .548 from three-point territory in Ivy games...
...beginning of his trial this past week leave much to be desired in terms of legal procedure, it is comforting that the tribunal prosecuting Duch in Phnom Penh has been organized with the support of the United Nations. Though it might be difficult to determine proper punishment for a man who killed and ordered the deaths of so many fellow citizens, we are glad to see that the death penalty will not be an option. Fortunately, in the system that will try Duch and other former Khmer Rouge officials, criminals will be brought to justice with the humanity...
...found a hole in the wall establishment simply named “Pizza.” Simple is good, right? Wrong.Twenty minutes into the wait for our food, we looked on as a crowd of scantily clad women enthusiastically exited a tiny bathroom; one of them approached a man behind the counter, who pulled out a letter from inside his shirt and gave it to the smiling female. Suspecting that “Pizza” actually stood for something else, Tim and I hastily reconsidered ordering “hero” sandwiches.After surviving the night in Ithaca...