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DIED. HAROLD NICHOLAS, 79, acrobatic tap dancer who with his older brother Fayard helped break the color barrier in Hollywood musicals; in New York City. Early in their career, the brothers' dizzying footwork and preternatural elegance was displayed onscreen, though never in the same scenes as their white counterparts. In 1948, however, their virtuosity landed them alongside Gene Kelly in The Pirate. The brothers awed such dance-world luminaries as Fred Astaire and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who called the Nicholas brothers "the most amazing dancers I've ever seen in my life--ever." They were honored by the Kennedy Center...
...only feature I really enjoyed on WebTV was the interactive programming, which lets you do things like play Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune onscreen during the show. You can also enter live polls on Judge Judy and get real-time stats for players as you watch ball games on NBC. AOLTV promises similar interactivity but won't have much at launch...
...everyone else, the best option is to wait until both services offer better interactive features or cable Net access to speed up Web surfing. High-definition TV could make onscreen text more legible. Meanwhile, I'm going to start planning next week's Survivor party--from the comfort of my home...
...information from the real world is overridden; your bioport provides all the sensory stimuli you need. Technically, it's just a question of getting the right hookups. If there's anything we already know from playing games, it's that our brains eagerly adapt our physical responses to the onscreen action. Next time your six-year-old plays Pokemon on his Game Boy or your teenagers blast away at their pals on Quake, watch what happens to their breathing and blink rate. One steadily increases; the other drops away to almost nothing. Their bodies are getting ready to fight...
...Tony: True. And I guess there was nothing politically correct about Shaft's pummeling that corner drug dealer. Usually, in movies, you have to see a baddie being really evil onscreen in order to justify a good whupping. But here you're simply told that this guy is a drug dealer and that he's using a 12-year-old to run his errands, and then the next thing Shaft is gleefully beating him into a bloody mess...