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...techie bigwigs who were this crowd's brightest stars. Star Wars effects czar Richard Edlund received the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation and a standing ovation. Visual effects software developer Ray Feeney took home the coveted Gordon E. Sawyer Award, coveted because it is the only actual Oscar statuette given (the other awards are plaques, medals and certificates). Also honored were the creators of something called the Rosetta Process, which will ensure safekeeping of today's movies for some 1500 years. Joshua Pines, who won for another digital archiving technique, clearly understood both the positive and the negative ramifications...
...cockeyed metaphors ("I will spread my buttery justice over your every nook and cranny!"), and in the pilot he fights a Soviet robot built in 1979 to kill Jimmy Carter, as if to admit that the very idea of the infallible superhero is decades outdated. Based on Ben Edlund's cult comic, this is exactly the kind of highly ironic, hero-puncturing entertainment that is supposedly a no-no now. Except that it's also creative, appealing and spray-milk-out-your-nose funny. The Tick is a blustery, lovable naif, a rippled blue mountain of earnestness so innocent...
Surrounding Zimmerman and Chen were seniors Andy Davis, Joe Villa and Marty Edlund, who looked perfectly comfortable alongside six new freshmen faces, most of whom towered over six feet, giving Harvard some much-needed size...
Offense was never the problem--at least it wasn't supposed to be. With Zimmerman positioned at the 2-meter spot, Edlund and Davis filled out the attack as utility men. And as opposed to the previous season, when the team had only 13 players, the newly acquired depth on the Harvard roster allowed for a more explosive and penetrating counter-attack...
Heading into next year, the Crimson will suffer the pangs of graduation as Chen, Edlund, Davis and Villa all leave visible holes on both sides of the pool...