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...player has some nice improvements over Apple's. The large volume buttons are a plus; with the iPod, it's often easier to tear off your headphones than to turn down a song. The home button comes in handy when you're stuck deep in your music library, and pop-up menus improve navigation. Dell also scores points for compatibility. The DJ will play all the MP3s and Windows Media files in your music collection - even protected files from the new Napster - and you can also access the Musicmatch music store, which has a huge selection of 99? songs that...
...fellow pretentious intellectual types at Harvard, who read all the news that’s fit to print on a daily basis but rarely deign to catch the evening news, I appreciate what mega-conglomerate news can provide for people like me—a dose of reality, American pop-culture style. It keeps me in touch...
...Still, the Madonna analogy limps. For one thing, Mui really could sing. Her sultry alto voice wrapped itself like a python around Canto-pop ballads, giving them a power, precision and, often, a desperation that never begged for pity. She sang of a strong woman's isolation-above, apart, alone. She was not the Madonna of Chinese music, but its Garbo...
...Most Hong Kong thrushes are sweet vixens. Mui was different. Her large eyes, beaky nose and small, lurid gash of a mouth gave rise to another sobriquet: the Ugly Queen of Pop. That's a harsh way of saying that Mui was a throwback to chanteuse Bai Guang and other Shanghai "sour beauties" of the pre-Mao era. The sour beauty sang of love as a burden that made the sufferer superior. Mui was that survivor: battered but proud...
...DIED. ANITA MUI, 40, flamboyant actress and Canto-pop diva, known as the Asian Madonna; of lung dysfunction caused by cervical cancer; in Hong Kong. (See Appreciation, page...