Word: facials
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...After the main course, dessert time would reward us with a predictable pattern of entertaining facial expressions. Ingestion was immediately followed by 1) the grimacing pucker, 2) the horrified, double take “stare” at the item, 3) a confused period of closer inspection and finally 4) total disgust as the plate was slid to the opposite end of the table. Some indignant recipients brought their findings to the cafeteria staff (the Adams House “pink” lady). Most amazing was how many people eagerly proceeded to polish off the rest of the dessert...
...After the main course, dessert time would reward us with a predictable pattern of entertaining facial expressions. Ingestion was immediately followed by 1) the grimacing pucker, 2) the horrified, double take “stare” at the item, 3) a confused period of closer inspection and finally 4) total disgust as the plate was slid to the opposite end of the table. Some indignant recipients brought their findings to the cafeteria staff (the Adams House “pink” lady). Most amazing was how many people eagerly proceeded to polish off the rest of the dessert...
...brick building, well baked by the Los Angeles sun, whose modest exterior camouflages the far-out work that's happening within. The group is focused on a multimedia effort to bring virtual people together for lifelike encounters. The project is fusing several state-of-the-art technologies - 3-D facial modeling and animation, video compression, spatially placed sound - to create a full-fledged virtual world...
...boom is fueled in large part by new, less costly "quick fix" techniques that don't involve major surgery: botox injections that temporarily eradicate facial lines, derma-fills that smooth out wrinkles and scars and build up lips and cheeks, and laser beams that zap away lines. Liposuction, the process of vacuuming fat from the body, is gaining in popularity thanks to advances in keyhole surgery and other less intrusive techniques...
This the movie does by employing the latest in animation technology. The producers call it a "fluid animation system." We are powerless to explain how it works, but we can describe what it produces: a very persuasive three-dimensionality and an astonishingly subtle range of facial expressions for all Shrek's characters...