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...suit] kind of looks like Darth Vader," said kern...
...traditional special-effects experts, Muren and his ILM-makers brought to life some of the most famous icons in movie history, from Darth Vader to E.T. Now he is leading a revolution in moviemaking. ILM has tamed the elements: fire and water are notoriously tough to animate, but the company managed the first convincingly in Backdraft and the second with the slinky pseudopod in The Abyss. An ILM team led by Steve Williams animated -- brought to life, if you will -- the T-1000 creature in T2, which could transform itself from, say, linoleum into a lethal humanoid weapon. "Movie effects...
...Olympic speed skiers, who cannot rest as easily as those whose children took up curling. The heart-pounding Alpine sport -- to be introduced at the Games this year as a demonstration event -- is skiing's equivalent of drag racing: no turns, no brakes. Gleaming in aerodynamic suits and Darth Vader-like helmets, the skiers rocket down a steep, hard-packed 1.08-mile course at 120 m.p.h. or more...
Like the rocket car demonstration, many of the experiments feature the professors as the stars. Another, in which the professor inhales sulfur hexaflouride, transforms the professor's voice to that of Darth Vader's. Don't try this one at home...
...firearms in the U.S. are involved in more than 30,000 deaths each year and drug gangs sport arsenals that a small army might envy, that militantly progun position has put the National Rifle Association at odds with the majority of Americans. To its opponents, the N.R.A. is the Darth Vader of special-interest groups, a force of 2.8 million members who can launch a tidal wave of constituent letters toward any legislator who ventures a word in support of gun control. Speaking before Congress last year, James Brady, the former White House press secretary who was wounded during John...