Word: everest
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McPhee, whom this reviewer has known for 40 years, is the most methodical of intuitive writers, or the most intuitive of methodicals. Intuition tells him to bang a gong from time to time, and he does: "The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone." Full stop. Paragraph break. While this astonishment reverberates, he goes on methodically to discuss orogeny, which is mountain building (benthic refers to the ocean bottom). He was an English major who had written about gold mining in Alaska without, as he admits, knowing how the gold got there to be mined. Neither did the miners...
Luckily, you're just a voyeur at Segarra's experience, sitting safely in a stadium-style seat at the Sony IMAX Theatre on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Your nose seemingly pressed against an eight-story-high screen, you're living that perilous moment through the IMAX film Everest. Shakun Lakhani, a New Jersey homemaker, was so awed by the film that she went back a second time. "It is beyond your imagination," she said. "You are experiencing Mount Everest as if you're climbing it yourself." That's because David Breashears and Steve Judson went to the Himalayas...
Riding the critical success of Everest, IMAX Corp., of Mississauga, Ontario, plans to expand by taking this sensory overload to a megaplex near you. "The company is going through a huge shift from institutional sites into more commercial sites like multiplexes," says Kevin Skislock, a senior analyst at investment bank L.H. Friend, Weinress, Frankson & Presson...
...times as large as conventional 35 mm. But IMAX and the theater owners hope to scale down costs too, for instance by replacing the $300 liquid-crystal eyeglasses used for 3-D movies with disposable polarized goggles. (The 3-D system can also show 2-D movies like Everest) IMAX films are shorter, so more customers can file in--450,000 a year, nine times the attendance at conventional movies...
Greg MacGillivray, producer and director of Everest, believes IMAX films like Amazon will revive the old concept of "films as road shows," with megasize movies rotating among 100 or so theaters and attracting residents from miles around. "I think you'll see them in every city with more than 300,000 people and in some cities with fewer than that. With nonfiction stories in spectacular settings, it will work really well," he predicts...