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...Contender is different. This movie takes issue with the very scandal that stole the red carpet from these other movies, as well as from--more importantly--the foreign affairs and domestic concerns that were shoved out of the spotlight throughout the ordeal. The movie also has the potential to raise myriad intriguing questions. Would the tone of the "vast right-wing conspiracy" have altered, for example, had it been the case of a female executive officer engaging in adulterous behavior with a male White House intern? How have party conspiracies altered the political process? Most important, however, is how should...
...carpet, the paint, even the wood gets lighter," Halvorson says...
...another series, exploring the way that the skin of her subjects can be transformed and the unnatural juxtaposition of patterns on a natural body, Faiman had her models lie down on the back of a carpet square and used baby oil to experiment with the external markings she could create on the bodies of young women. "I got the idea it would look almost reptilian if I could get it shiny enough to look like scales," she explains...
...dawn, Shawn Fanning lay on the brown carpet in the shadow of a converted bar counter, consumed by the idea. He had been awake 60 straight hours writing code on his notebook computer. In his daze, the idea appeared to him as something tangible--a hard, shiny piece of black metal--that he had to forge and form so that it became usable, so that the hard black metal was transformed into a friendly tool, so that the 0s and 1s, the Windows API protocols and Unix server commands, were all somehow buffed and polished and worked to a fine...
...early '90s, the schools didn't know what to make of them," says Cafi Cohen, 50, who taught her two children at home and wrote Homeschooling: The Teen Years. "Now most colleges have a policy for dealing with them, and some schools are just about rolling out the red carpet...