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...concept behind the detector, which is known, cutely, as the Lucky Camera, is very simple: the earth's roiling atmosphere acts as a distorting lens, which changes moment by moment as pockets of warmer or cooler air constantly pass in front of a given object. That's why stars twinkle and why ground-based telescopes can be only so sharp. The stars twinkle for the Lucky Camera too. But it snaps 20 images every second, and every so often one of those images, purely by chance, will be taken through a calm patch of sky--much as a broken clock...
Last Friday, I felt Boston’s collective heart start beating again.For all the romance about the Red Sox and the hoopla surrounding Bill Belichick’s stealth with a video camera, Boston has bled Celtic green since Red Auerbach paced the sidelines decades ago.So when Celtics tickets went on sale last Friday, this old city’s heart—broken and embittered after 20 years of pure misery—started pumping the same green blood that fueled a 30-year obsession with arguably the NBA’s best franchise.And I, the hapless Midwesterner...
...tell people” 9. FM: I guess you can never have enough friends who are hookers. Hey, you over there! Are you a hooker? 2011: “I have over 10,000 from this year not including the moments not caught on camera :D” FM: Excuse me? 2011: “I’m awesome. Call me and let’s play red rover.” 10. FM: Is the whole freshman class this crazy? 2011: “We should all do it as a team, lol. Reppin...
...going, 'Omigod, they're not going to do that! Omigod, they've just done that.' I saw it at Cannes, where a quarter of the audience walked out and the rest gave it a standing ovation. When we play the movie I actually want to have a camera on the audience so I can film them freaking out." That makes Geddes the perfect Midnight Madness programmer: he's a voyeur of his own audience...
...Later, as dinner guests drifted up to their tables, Martha Stewart and Charlie Rose jockeyed for camera time behind a box-hedge where entertainment reporter Jill Rappaport had set up some lights. There were very few details left unattended to, from the perfectly cooked pink lamb chop main course to the black-edged white linen dinner napkins that matched the runway theme. And little details tell the tale. Because beyond all of his branding and focus, it's nailing the little things that has gotten Ralph Lauren, 40 years after he started, to the top of the heap...