Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...digitally created (the final Gungan battle) or enhanced (by extending the standing sets, built only 6 ft. or 7 ft. high, into palaces and Senate chambers). "A typical summer movie has maybe 2,000 shots, with, say, 250 effects shots," says Knoll. Titanic had about 500. "This one is backward. Of the 2,200 shots, only about 250 shots are not effects shots." There is just one sequence totally untouched by the digitalizers. Hint: watch for the vent...
Gretzky's career is a bit curious in that he did it backward. You're supposed to rise from obscurity, slowly dominate the sport, overcome adversity and go out on top, like that basketball guy. By the time Gretzky was 10, though, he was featured in a half-hour television special. At 18, his fame was part of the reason the National Hockey League absorbed the upstart World Hockey Association, where Gretzky was playing for the Edmonton Oilers. He had won four Stanley Cup championships with the Oilers by the time he was 27. He married actress Janet Jones...
...considering I don't know how to skate. So I scheduled a lesson at a local ice-skating rink with a guy who coached the Israeli Olympic figure-skating team, which seemed impressive until I really thought about it. Still, in half an hour, he taught me to skate backward, scuff up the ice in front of the goal, bang on the goal pipes with my stick and blame my equipment when I got scored...
Sound too idealistic? Not to Ali Erakat, an 11-year-old trooper in Operation Kestrel with a baseball cap turned backward on his head and braces on his teeth. This assertive young man happens to be the son of Sa'eb Erakat, the tough-talking Palestinian peace negotiator. Asked how he felt about meeting and working with Israeli kids, the younger Erakat replied, "I feel happy if they feel happy. None of us want the birds to be in danger. Things like this help us to make peace between kids." Even his cagey old father would have to smile...
...Walk backward 2 steps (big shake...