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Through selective news broadcasts, the American public is shown only a sleek, “lean machine” image of a war that is organized into victories and losses. In contrast, the Gunners live in a world of anticipation and insecurity, and it is this disjunction Palace aims to explore. Against inserted radio clips of Donald Rumsfeld’s pronouncements of progress in Iraq, the sequences of the soldiers’ assignments reveal that their duties and equipment remain unchanged. Days are spent patrolling the streets of Baghdad in scrap-metal-sided Humvees (armor deftly satirized...
Most cartoons feature scenery that is a fantastical version of the real world, with extremely bright colors and curvy shapes. Instead, Blue Sky Studios has relied on cooler, deeper colors to contrast their work from Disney’s “rose-colored glasses” animation. Ice Age succeeded in this degree, but its landscapes were vast expanses of neutrally-colored arctic; Robots’ futuristic mechanical world is visually distracting to the point of nausea...
...other recordings—even the quasi-solo tapes he released under the moniker Sentridoh in the late ’90s—it is very much a classic Barlow work, particularly when performed. In recorded form, the new disc’s sonic clarity is a clear contrast to the rest of his catalog’s muffled lo-fi recordings. Performed live, the sound is still very stripped-down, allowing the soft earnestness of the songs to shine through. Barlow even employed two microphones, one clean and one muffled, switching back and forth while calling to mind...
...fiscal year just ended, up from $12.5 billion five years ago. Archrival Circuit City has seen sales decline from $12.6 billion to an estimated $10.3 billion over the same period. Research firm Retail Forward says Best Buy generates $870 in sales per sq. ft. of retail space, in contrast to Circuit City's $480. (Highfields Capital, a large Circuit City investor, offered to buy out the company for $3.25 billion last month...
...applicable to the next, regardless of whether both classes are in the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences or are in different disciplines. Furthermore, when new lessons must be taught, students should be shown how those lessons are an expansion of what one has learned and not a contrast to those earlier skills...