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...honest, the style of Kong is crude; the digital techniques of today are so much more sophisticated than the gross, mechanical movement of the steel-armatured puppets. The principal emotional modes are comedic, bathetic or scary. And "Kong" isn't scary, at least not to a modern audience, and the emotional moments are far too sentimental for modern tastes. Yet it works! Somehow, like Karloff with his brilliant miming in the James Whale Frankenstein pictures, O'Brien makes Kong into something not just alive, but worthy of our sympathy...
Back at Harvard. Now the fun begins. "Research" at this stage may be pretty crude, and the learning curve is immense. You may think you understand Widener/microfilms/your topic/the nature of reality, but after a few weeks of reading you will realize how difficult it is to get sources, how foolishly broad your topic sounds or how banally obvious. Do not despair; it seems that all of us are humbled as we strive to join the company of educated men and women...
...over the course of the war, she said, different methods of identifying the lost and dead were used, including rough, inaccurate newspaper reporting, letters from other soldiers and commanding offices and crude forms of self-identification...
...Another candidate-José Cura, a moodily good-looking Argentinian who is a Domingo protégé and Warner Music's great hope-may have taken himself out of contention. His is a warm, dramatic voice, but the New York Times castigated his "crude musicianship." Stunts like Cura's 1999 Royal Festival Hall recital, when he conducted his own arias, have led to a reputation for egotism and headlines like "the Ego Has Landed" (The Independent on his "posturing" London Otello). Cura now says he is "a serious artist, not interested in marketing clichés like who will...
According to an assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey, the refuge contains about 3.2 billion barrels of economically recoverable crude oil, which is less than America consumes in six months. Focusing on energy conservation and efficiency would be a far more effective path: according to the National Resources Defense Council, 51 billion barrels of oil--approximately 16 times the yield from the arctic refuge--could be saved by improving the average fuel efficiency in new cars, sport utilities and light trucks over the next decade from 24 to 39 miles per gallon...