Word: acing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chen's theme, from his first film, Yellow Earth (1984), has been the indoctrination of children--and, often, their misuse by those who should care for them (read: the state). But he has never illustrated it as voluptuously as here. He and ace cinematographer Christopher Doyle bathe Gong Li in warm reds, giving her a fever of frustrated love, and surround Cheung with cold grays to reflect the ice of his resentment. As the slick gigolo and avenging angel of the Pang family, Cheung radiates the intensity of a lover scorned and scarred for life. In a performance that dares...
...like Casper and Jumanji. There's better detail, much better lighting, better muscle tone and movement in the animals. When a dinosaur transfers weight from his left side to his right, the whole movement of fat and sinew is smoother, more physiologically correct." Adds Industrial Light & Magic computer-graphics ace Dennis Muren: "We built the instrument for the first movie; on this one we're learning how to play it better. There are more animals [nine species here to five in the first film] and more effects shots [85 to 52]." For the effects team, Spielberg was a canny guide...
...that's when Harvard coach Jenny Allard called in her ace...
After dropping the first two games 10-2 and 22-4, Harvard called on its ace, senior southpaw Frank Hogan, to lead the program to its biggest victory in recent history. The Crimson's lone First Team All-Ivy selection last season would not disappoint his teammates...
...soon as someone would say, 'Let's do this so we can go to heaven,' someone else would say, 'No, no, no, no. Let's do it because we should do good.' It got to the point where I began to think that heaven was too much like an ace in the hole, that it was sort of like cheating. I almost felt guilty thinking too much of heaven...