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...movie paint box. "Star Wars convinced filmmakers that you can do anything bigger and better to enhance the shot," says Jason Barlow, lead CG animator for the effects company RIOT. "Now, with digital technology, real magic can happen." The movie even changed the way films are financed. Notes cultural critic John Seabrook: "Because of its huge box office, it interested Wall Street people who had previously seen Hollywood as small potatoes. The Star Wars numbers brought a new variety of investor and financial manager into movies...
...Council, the little agency in the White House for settling such policy differences, is weaker than it has been since the latter part of the Reagan Administration. Run by Condoleezza Rice, the nsc struggled along until recently with an Afghan expert in charge of the Middle East. A Rice critic says that when the pro-Israel players in the Pentagon and Cheney's office, who enjoy plenty of access to the West Wing, make proposals to Bush, "there is nobody in the White House who says...
...artist’s critical reception has been just as fraught with contradictions. Critic Phil Ramone said, “She sings like an angel,” while the New York Press raved that she “sings like a bastard.” She captures all the heartfelt bravado of a power ballad. And the audience, watching her take over the stage with unapologetic force, can only hang on tight and think, “This is going to be one hell of a ride...
...General Accounting Office found that some IRBs spend only one to two minutes of review per study. Board members can't possibly be experts in every field; most are in-house researchers whose own studies are likely to come up for review someday. Says George Annas, a critic of current U.S. laws: "Researchers tend to approve research; they know this is how the institution makes its money. They rarely deny anything...
Rogers began his long connection with Harvard first as an undergraduate in the 1960s. Born in 1944 to a privileged family in New York, Rogers attended Dalton High School before coming to Harvard, where he ended up rooming with film critic David Ansen and actor John Lithgow. Documentary filmmaker Janet Mendelsohn, was also a classmate of Rogers, and characterizes him as an “enthusiastic undergrad” who majored in English and wrote his thesis on Joyce’s Ulysses...