Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...objects are inserted into the action of the film by means of the blue-screen process. The figure is photographed against a blue background and then combined in an optical printer with the scene into which it will be placed. This procedure must be repeated each time a new element is added to the scene. The pastry creatures that came to life in Young Sherlock Holmes, for example, were hand-manipulated rod puppets, each shot individually and added one by one in as many as twelve layers. For a brief shot of a space battle in Return of the Jedi...
Gardner, a documentary filmmaker, said that the film made him feel "a sort of sorrow or grief," and asked, "What is it about some element of a film like this that is capable of so moving us as to make...
...mock SASC's white tower, or he's dressing up as a German stormtrooper and firing toy cannons during his high school's field day. "It's never been entirely clear to me how serious Saied is" about his political activities, said Damon Silvers '86. "There's an element of the prankster...
...Karpov. In the long, tortuous process of arms negotiations, he is careful to remain receptive to the Kremlin's more serious overtures without giving ground on the American side. "What they respect is power," says Kampelman. "The extent to which their adversary has power of its own adds an element of dignity to the argument of the adversary." Reagan has given his negotiator a relatively free hand in the talks. Assisted by a team of representatives from the departments of State and Defense, the CIA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the White House, Kampelman drafts statements with minimal instruction...
Some journalists criticized NBC not so much for conducting an interview with a wanted terrorist as for agreeing to give up the most newsworthy element of the story. Warren Hoge, foreign editor of the New York Times, says that his paper was offered an Abbas interview several weeks after the ship hijacking, but turned it down. "We can't agree to an arrangement where we can't publish the single most important fact, which is (Abbas') whereabouts," says Hoge. Chicago Tribune Editor James Squires was so incensed by the NBC deal that he wrote his paper's editorial denouncing...