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...proceedings, Wright continues to play fast and loose with the facts. For instance, at one point, he writes: “When Roberts arrived in the interrogation room, he sat down and crossed his legs casually, showing off highly polished English shoes that glistened in the dim light.” But in an interview with The Crimson this past Tuesday, Wright acknowledged that he took artistic license with his description of Roberts’ footwear—and with other occasional scene-setting details as well.This is unfortunate. Wright’s subject matter is so powerful...
...earned his Ph.D. at Harvard—recently conducted a study of about 400 UC students that found darkness “correlated positively with bulimic behavior in restrained eaters.” In the dark, he found, these people tend to binge more than purge. Kasof says that dim light might not be the only cause of seasonal changes in binge eating. The study references a prior report that found a relation between overeating and seasonal change. “It was well done, and it found amazingly high correlations between the frequency of binge eating and seasonal variation...
...homage to sex and circle motifs. “We travel a lot together,” Matsui says of the pictures of the two, partially nude, on a beach in Hawaii. On the oppposing wall hang blown-up “drunken” snapshots, lit by the dim glow of a red fabric chandelier. A cluster of dangling plastic circles and thin red fabric adorn the ceiling, a red shag rug the floor, and a full-length mirror the far wall. “We like to strut before we go out,” Matsui says...
...film’s only innovation is the weirdness of the characters and casting: Robert Downey Jr. plays Harry, a dim-witted thief, while Val Kilmer plays his foil: mean, burly private eye “Gay” Perry, whose handle doesn’t spring from his constant happiness...
...National Film and Television School in London. Initially, Gromit was envisioned as a cat, but underwent a transformation when Park realized “a dog was just easier to make.” Park relished his new creations: Wallace, an inventor whose light bulbs are always a little dim, and Gromit, his faithful companion, whose silence belies his ingenuity. Park liked that the situation was “almost like a role reversal, with the dog being the smart one and the man being the stupid one.” Though the Wallace and Gromit shorts brought him international...