Word: concocting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once or twice a decade, the geek visionaries at Industrial Light & Magic concoct a special effect that wows even jaded, high-tech-savvy audiences. The latest is morphing, as in metamorphosis, a technique that reduces a film image to a numerical code that a computer can manipulate almost endlessly. One image can melt into another, for example, as when Linda Hamilton turns into Robert Patrick in Terminator 2, right, or when disparate races, genders and ages blend together in Michael Jackson's video Black or White...
Once or twice a decade, the geek visionaries at Industrial Light & Magic concoct a special effect that wows even jaded, high-tech-savvy audiences. The latest is morphing, as in metamorphosis, a technique that reduces a film image to a numerical code that a computer can manipulate almost endlessly. One image can melt into another, for example, as when Linda Hamilton turns into Robert Patrick in Terminator 2, right, or when disparate races, genders and ages blend together in Michael Jackson's video Black or White...
...hottest and most savory TV cooking show is produced by San Francisco's California Culinary Academy and KQED. The series, which has been shown on PBS channels, features no-name, no-frills chefs who skip yuks and patter in favor of precise instructions on how to concoct their light, low-fat, au courant recipes. In just four months, a cookbook featuring dishes from the series sold more than 90,000 copies...
...these masochistic dramas expressing women's insecurity about their feminist-era advances? Or simply the exploitative shrewdness of the mostly male producers who concoct them? The films smartly cover all bases. They put women in the time-tested role of victim, yet focus on strong characters who, for all their troubles, triumph in the end. The dramas become parables of feminist self-realization. For Mills, things start to turn around in prison when she learns to depend on no one but herself. "You wanna get out of here?" an inmate tells her. "Grow up!" Fine...
...bothered to change the light bulbs, is full of more than 600 demonstrations that Rueckner and his staff assemble and prepare for professors at the drop of a hat. Every year, Rueckner and his team of three full-time assistant scientists -- two physicists and a chemist -- concoct and build a dozen or so original demonstrations, which are eventually stored here. Aside from these tried and true experiments, Wolf says that when a professor has a specific wish, "we see what...