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...text too often calls for him to use wit, intelligence and logic, making it unbelievable that he could so deftly educate Anthony in wigmaking, arrange his daughter’s rescue from bedlam and lure the judge to his death chamber. Margo is even prevented from enjoying the brilliant humor in an abbreviated “A Little Priest...
Weakening Todd’s character is a choice that allows the show to increase the strength of his partner-in-cannibalism, the quick-thinking and manipulative Mrs. Lovett, played by Emily S. Knapp ’03. Knapp, who gives the most brilliant performance to grace the mainstage this year, handles her numbers (particularly “The Worst Pies in London”) with perfect comic timing and a warm—if occasionally weak—voice...
Combined with a brilliant lighting design by David Corlette ’96, the set keeps the narrative on the edge of reality, underscoring the story’s destructive progress while capturing the cruelty of sunlight in a deadly Arctic winter...
Thanks to Lucas and his brilliant team, special effects became the prettiest new tool in the movie paint box. "Star Wars convinced filmmakers that you can do anything bigger and better to enhance the shot," says Jason Barlow, lead CG animator for the effects company RIOT. "Now, with digital technology, real magic can happen." The movie even changed the way films are financed. Notes cultural critic John Seabrook: "Because of its huge box office, it interested Wall Street people who had previously seen Hollywood as small potatoes. The Star Wars numbers brought a new variety of investor and financial manager...
...India. Borrowing a page from the cia's proxy war?backing local mujahedin against the occupying Soviets in Afghanistan?the ISI began in 1989 to encourage Islamic militant outfits inside Pakistan to cross over the mountains and snipe at Indian troops in Kashmir. As a combat tactic, it was brilliant: on any given day, more than 300,000 Indian troops are busy chasing 2,000 Kashmiri militants up and down the Himalayas...