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After drowsily leaving my house at 6:15 a.m. and walking to the el, I’d climb the steps and swipe myself through the turnstile with my student MetroCard. As I reached the top of the staircase and stepped out onto the far end of the concrete platform, fresh air would hit me in the face. I could look up and see the sky. It was usually empty—I think a flock of geese may have flown overhead once—but there was something so satisfying about being able to see the sky directly above...
Actually, it was great inhabiting. "You never really understand a person ...," Atticus says, "until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." Tolerance ripening into empathy: that was Peck's gift in playing an elevated species of American, the man of strength and compassion. Today that species is more than endangered; it has nearly vanished. But it flourished for most of the actor's half-century onscreen, when Americans prided themselves on their fellow feeling for the downtrodden and their ability to uplift the races. Peck was liberal when liberal was cool...
...although he talked with family members, he made the decision to accept Raines' resignation himself. He also insists that he did not order the editors to quit. "There was no single 'aha' moment. There was a sense from the two of them that the hill that they had to climb was becoming too steep. And that the cost of that to the institution was becoming too great," says Sulzberger. "And, sadly, I had to agree...
Some flightier, more fantastic movies go heavy on the CG. Director Joseph McGinty Nichol, known as McG, lays out a bit of his new Charlie's Angels action: "The girls drive an Army truck off a dam, and while falling to their death, they climb into a helicopter on the back of the truck and fly away." Send in the computer nerds! Still, McG stresses, "Pure CG can be cartoonish. You lose the stakes. There's no jeopardy. Audiences have a built-in CG detector. So you need to be slippery. You use a lot of real elements...
That feeling has helped Brett’s assist numbers climb from seven in his sophomore slump to 16 in his junior year and 29 in his final Crimson campaign...