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...also static. French critic Michel Ciment called Ghost 2 "animation without animation"--a cartoon in which the images don't move much. On stolid figures and faces, only the mouths move, as in the old Clutch Cargo TV series. The action scenes don't move at a clip either. Sometimes Oshii preens a little, as when the camera tracks slowly around an object. It points out what's missing in his approach: fluidity of character line, the subtlety of expression that brought humanity to a Warner Bros. cartoon duck or rabbit...
...LIFE'S most painful and predictable rituals: leaving friends behind after graduation, marriage or retirement. But for 15 men who grew up together in the Bronx in the 1930s and '40s, today's most significant friendships began in childhood. Despite being scattered all over the country, this clutch of school chums has managed to keep in touch for more than six decades, since starting at New York City's public school (P.S.) 80. The friends' story, which was recently turned into a documentary, reveals a gentler era, when the phrase "friends forever" had meaning...
...tally also negated one of the bright spots for Harvard—a clutch, reenergizing score by senior forward Tiffany Egnaczyk at 28:56 on a misdirected stick-stop...
...Clown Frankenstein (Loop Theater, Oct. 15-Nov. 14) The company much of Chicago is talking about; a clutch of clowns reimagine Mary Shelley's monster number?humor at its darkest...
...western edge. Sixty companies and 19 educational institutions--active in such fields as biotech, nanotech and environmental science--have settled there so far, and 2,500 new jobs have been created. Probiodrug, a biotech start-up that has won acclaim for its research on diabetes and acquired a clutch of lucrative licensing agreements with big pharmaceutical firms, is one of the early tenants. "Halle has a unique situation," says Probiodrug CEO Hans-Ulrich Demuth. "There's a strong university in the field of biosciences and a highly educated and motivated work force here...