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Genetically-modified foods could also have nutritional benefits, he said. For example, he said that "golden rice," which is enriched in beta-carotene, could help to combat vitamin-A deficiency, which kills a million children worldwide every year...
Furst transmuted his political horrors to the bleak years from 1938 to 1942 when Europe was in extremis. The totalitarianism his reluctant heroes combat is Nazism, but his books are less about Hitler than all the Hitlers: his belief that the suffering was not caused just by one man, but by the lust for power of all the predators out there. "And if you think they're dead," Furst adds, "take a look at Yugoslavia. They're still out there, alive and well...
...will hear again and again when discussing the genre with experts, one of the best-ever examples of interaction between live actors and animated figures. It took four and a half months to shoot! There are seven skeletons, each separately animated, each bearing a sword, each engaged in combat with various Argonauts. (Poor Argonauts: you can't kill a skeleton - they're already dead.) You see stuff like a shot over Jason's shoulder as he stands on a ruined temple wall, looking down on a crowd of waving swords and skull faces that are somehow snarling. Nowadays this stuff...
...says, and punches my brother in the side of the head. I froze with my mouth open. Pat held his hand to the side of his head. We all just stood there for a moment, then they moved away. It was a perfect Columbus moment, the kind combat troops describe - long days of boredom punctuated by a quick flash of terror...
Aside from the look and the music of "Kong," of course, are the shaping hands of producer-director Merian C. Cooper and his co-director Ernest Schoedsack. Cooper had been among other things a sailor, a newspaperman, and a combat aviator; while in Poland after his escape from a Bolshevik labor camp, he met veteran newsreel cameraman Schoedsack...