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...heyday of digital-camera sales, all they had to do was improve a camera's image resolution, measured in megapixels. But now that the march of the megapixels has advanced to at least five or six on most point-and-shoot cameras - a level above which the human eye can't spot improvement - vendors are scrambling to compete on other features...
Movies began as trickery, a game that science played on the eye. Film is a series of photographs passing through a projector so quickly that the eye believes the images on them are moving. That lie, of moving pictures, seemed like magic to early spectators and, when all the conjuring arts and techniques are aligned, seem so today. Viewers still allow themselves to be fooled by the director: the illusionist-in-chief...
...Golden Age of the '30s and '40s, the industry was often accused of escapism. And certainly the films in Hollywood's war effort portrayed the conflict in terms and tones that would comfort as much as enlighten the audience. A neutral eye might see them as propaganda. But there was no neutrality in movie theaters. So the Germans were painted as sadistic dandies, the Japanese as deranged barbarians. And the American GIs, in a platoon of varied ethnicities (all white - this was before the integration of the Army), were steely men of purpose, risking their lives, sometimes dying, to defend...
...Chris, the captain, and his deck hand Jacqui, I was alone and miles away from the shores of Florida.Chris was as small as a boy, though he was 41. On another shrimp boat, a battery exploded in his face. When he pulled out a piece of plastic, his right eye came with it. Now he wears goggles, which protect his glass eye and the other one, that one he cannot afford to lose. Jacqui stepped onto the Sea Hawk with her boyfriend three years back, and the 39-year-old became addicted to the solitary ocean and what she calls...
...just plain fun. Some of that fun may be at the guests' expense. After an hourlong massage during my recent visit, I found it hard to rouse myself from a delightful stupor, but the therapist waited for me with a sly, mocking grin as I returned to reality - one eye at a time. Il Pellicano is luxury that doesn't take itself too seriously. "You set certain guidelines for the staff, but you also give them the space to interpret their role in a way they're comfortable with," explains Roberto Sciò, who helps run Il Pellicano. The easygoing...