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...Lucas seems to want to make that word obsolete: Clones is by far the most ambitious movie to be shot and, in certain theaters, exhibited with digital technology. For a movie industry that has been slow to embrace digital filmmaking, Clones heralds a breakthrough that Lucas compares with the advent of sound and the arrival of color. The whizzes at Lucasfilm, Panavision and Sony blended their expertise to devise sophisticated lenses and cameras that enable digital images to replace traditional 35-mm film. The result is an astoundingly clear image that lends a hyperreal glamour to the gritty city...
...they said. “The streets are lined with lattes and you’ll even have two different incarnations of ‘Law and Order’ over there.” (These were the good old days of 2000, a full year before the advent of Law and Order: Criminal Intent in America and the proliferation of Starbucks in England changed their simplistic outlook forever.) Unconvinced by my parents and terrified by the English stereotype of vacuous, air-headed Yanks, I arrived at Freshman Week and was greeted by a member of the Crimson Key, chirpier...
...about age seven I realized, with much chagrin, that my skin tone did not fit in the usual “pale” to “caramel” range that most make-up lines feature in their ads. One would assume that with the advent of honey-hued Halle Berry in almost every Revlon ad, make-up companies would do a better job of advertising foundation and other make-up products in a wider variety of colors. But it seems that caramel is pretty much the only sweet to make it main stream…I suppose...
...With the advent of April showers, however, come the hoards of prospective students—actually, more prospective parents—looking for a wayward admissions tip and a map to 8 Gardner Street. Do you mean Garden Street, sir? No, no, the woman on the phone said Gardner Street. Can you please hurry? The tour starts at 3 p.m.; it’s 12:30 now and I don’t want to be late...
...expensive? Sure—so charge for cheap tickets, say $5 or so (and give the folks who still don’t want to go a chance to opt out). Springfest has been dry for years, but the council overlooked the opportunity to revisit the issue with the advent of Summers. Lee says the obstacle is the massive amount of surveillance required—an alcohol cage and other precautions. “UC reps who were around for that experience reassured us that this only created substantially more work for very little reward,” Lee wrote...