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...sound rule of travel, and of intellectual delight, to go where the others are not. Therefore, plunge back into books--not texts read in pixels off the screen, but read, rather, with their sweet weight of thought held in the hand. Go where others are not--to wonderful unread writers like Seneca or Plutarch, for example, whom I read during our blackout. They understood certain essentials that we have misplaced...
...only two single-screen theaters surviving in Boston, the Brattle has been financially struggling through most of its 52 years of existence. But it has been able to conquer many hearts among the Cantabrigians, by showing a wide variety of immortal movies, as well as new, daring ones...
...theater, first bought by ambitious members of the Harvard dramatic society, started showing repertory movies in the ’50s, and while legendary films have landed on its screen (from “Casablanca” to “Jaws” through “The Godfather” and “Lolita”), its mission has always been one to show more than just mainstream Hollywood movies. How long may it be until that audience doesn’t have the Brattle Theater as choice for entertainment any more...
...Design-wise, the VX9800 is quite a departure for LG. Instead of a straight clamshell design, it's a candy bar that opens into a little palmtop, complete with QWERTY keyboard, a spacious 2.5-in. screen and two good-sized speakers. Good-sized for a cell phone, that...
...iPod. Even though it costs the same ($299) as its immediate predecessor, which Apple introduced only 15 months ago, the new iPod has more memory (30 GB as opposed to 20 GB), and it's thinner (0.43 in., as opposed to 0.6 in.). Plus, it plays video. The screen is just 2.5 in. diagonally, but because it's extremely bright and very sharp, it looks bigger than it is. It's the kind of thing you could definitely imagine being unable to live without...