Word: automaton
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...course on French cinema. It began with an enrollment of 120, soon split into two sections ("realism" and "new wave"), and then ramified into seminar-topics ("auteur" theory, structural cinema, cinema of cruelty...). The course became something of a machine, what Gilles Deleuze would have called a "spiritual automaton" that engulfed its students and teachers. It quickly happened that for practical reasons my department asked me to keep working in film and, despite a commitment to the work of the great writers of the Renaissance, to put cinema close to the center of my pedagogical mission...
...flesh. He's attracting good crowds--150 to 250 people--who mainly want to make sure that he's not as kooky as that other multimillionaire who once ran for President. His seriousness and earnestness tell them that, while his occasional sheepish grins reveal that he's not an automaton either. He has the courage of his awkwardness. In Council Bluffs, Chris Bridgeford, who owns his own construction business, listened to Forbes and said, "I was hoping to hear something more solid...
...above that the scientists sitting in an Anchorage, Alaska, control room started to get seriously worried. Until then the robot known as Dante II had successfully negotiated a steep, muddy descent and ambled unconcernedly through hot steam and poisonous gases. But even a 10-ft.-tall, 1,700-lb. automaton has its limits, and multiton chunks of rock moving at high speed were beyond Dante's. "That big one," said Carnegie Mellon University robotics expert John Bares, pointing nervously at a video screen after a rockslide, "would've wiped...
...sheltered that as an adult, he can scarcely decide what to eat or which clothes to put on in the morning. But a daughter usually travels with the family and gets a taste of other cultures. Grown up, these women do not want to settle for a corporate automaton as a husband...
...Daly's updated nightmare, the Butch Lee role is played by Lithuanian Sarunas Marciulionis, an N.B.A. star who plays for the Golden State Warriors. Daly sees Marciulionis sinking three-pointers like an automaton from 30 ft., with Lithuanian center Arvidas Sarbonis playing for one night like Bill Russell in his prime...