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...these new classrooms are wired to the hilt withaudiovisual technology. Wall-mounted speakers,permanent video projectors and fully-automatedscreens make showing videos a simple process.Simple, that is, except for the fact that theinner walls of each classroom is made of glass.So, in spite of the high-tech, fully automaticblackout window shades, light from the hallwaycannot be blocked and provides enough glare torender the movie screen nearly unwatchable.Perhaps the architect momentarily forgot that hewas designing an academic building rather than adesign showcase. Also, the video projectors arepermanently fixed in each of the classrooms,prompting some TF's to complain that theeffectively...
...imagine the great master, sitting in his apartment in Craigie Circle here in Cambridge, standing up at a lectern as he always did, writing on a summer night with the moths at the window, then looking at his son Dmitri, whom he had saved from the Nazis in his own flight from wartime France, whose future he foresaw, whose childhood he shaped into a memory of joy. Then, blinded by tears at his own creation, the great Russian humanist rescues his Krug, since David's death is not to be borne...
...Pipe Cinch" eerily resembles a Soul Asylum acoustic number, but this aura is broken by "Cool Magnet," a pulsating anthem that could become the album's dark horse hit. Though not yet receiving radio airplay, it conveys the raw, hardcore emotion that is great for blasting out the car window while cruising down the highway at 80 miles per hour...
...pleasingly eerie mesh of quiet guitar riffs, chimes and the voice of B-Real clucking "Da da da daaa." "Prelude to a Come Up" features a strikingly solemn piano line that punctuates the lyrics, creating a softly mystical aura. And the album's best song, "From the Window of My Room," is exhilarating through its creepy blend of synthesized violins, electric keyboards and juiced-up bass beats...
...scramble for the same kinds of promotable stories that Dateline and 20/20 go after? "I would not like to see anything with the 60 Minutes name involved in the game of sweeps-week roulette," warns Hewitt. Will part-time stars like Rose and Rather turn out to be mere window dressing? And with only one of the four correspondents picked so far under 55 years of age (Mabrey is 42), CBS isn't exactly solving one rap against 60 Minutes: its older-skewing audience. In the cold, cruel Nielsen world, even a high-minded newsmagazine has to watch its back...