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...smooth, and every possible corner is cut: when characters aren’t talking, they often just freeze in place until their next line. The most ridiculous example of animator negligence, actually, is a perfect metaphor for the film itself. In one scene, Red falls out of a chairlift and hits a few thin, leafy tree branches on her way down. But instead of bending to her body weight like normal branches, these remain immobile as Red connects with and bounces off of each one with a loud thud. In the same fashion, the Weinstein brothers have found a normally...

Author: By Hayes H. Davenport, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hoodwinked | 1/12/2006 | See Source »

...Language, asked about the committee’s “degree of confidence” in whether FAS would be able to pay for a $100 million deficit.“It’s very exhilarating to ski downhill, but one wants to be assured that the chairlift works,” Engell said.Before King, Hoxby, and Campbell took the floor to discuss finances, FAS Diversity Advisor Lisa L. Martin issued a report on her efforts this semester. She outlined her hope to accommodate female junior professors, noting a study that found that 45 percent of tenured women...

Author: By William C. Marra and Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faculty Prepares For $100M Deficit | 1/11/2006 | See Source »

...INDIA: In war-torn Kashmir, Gulmarg has the world's highest golf course, at 2,650 m, and one of the world's highest lifts, at 4,138 m. It may also be the cheapest: $6 a day covers lift rides and equipment rental, but not the chairlift hookah pictured here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gulmarg Mountain High | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...trying to drop the H-Bomb on two Canadian ski-bunnies at night and crashing and burning when they think I said “Hartford College.” My après-ski still seems to need some work. Enjoying tripping over my skis by the main chairlift and wiping out it in front of my family and two hundred complete strangers is an acquired taste for sure, but maybe the most astonishing sensation is realizing that I actually miss Harvard when I’m away. When did this happen...

Author: By W. LOWELL Putnam, | Title: Finding Peace on the Ski Slopes | 3/6/2002 | See Source »

...NAOC proposed a compromise to raise the start of the downhill course by 60 meters, as long as the new addition would be between the park and a chairlift that runs along the edge of the park. FIS had originally objected on the grounds that the skiing time for the current course--about one minute and 30 seconds--was too short to be a "true Olympic test". Additionally, FIS asked to use part of the restricted area on the grounds that recreational skiers were already using the part of the park that Kobayashi claimed previously to have rare plants that...

Author: By Misasha C. Suzuki, | Title: Pre-Olympic Woes Reflect Nagano's Regional Differences | 2/6/1998 | See Source »

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