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...plays itself out in gray forms emerging from a bleached-out screen or disappearing into a white mist. Through such a lens, a mountain is as immaterial as a stick of kindling, a laketop as impenetrable as a cliff's face. The film is handled episodically, with a full fade to black between scenes. These pauses in the narrative slow the film down and thwart the efforts of audience members to gauge the pace or predict the plot. The moments of blankness, which Jarmusch describes as "respiration," also serve to showcase Neil Young's virtuoso soundtrack. Young has created...
...Books That Work, budding green thumbs can design their own realistic gardens on an easy-to-use computer grid, dragging and dropping into place any of 800 plants and flowers. Advanced features let users take a 3-D tour of their creations or watch the virtual gardens blossom and fade as the seasons pass. One tip: Don't add water. (Books That Work...
...meantime, however, the players can go home and forget about the score. In years to come the score will be forgotten, but the memories of Fenway Park will never fade. UMass 13 Harvard...
...necessary as it is to never let the memory of those that died fade, so is it important for the Jewish people to shlepp naches (derive pride) in the miracle of Israeli independence. The beauty and triumphant existence of the state of Israel is testimony to the fact that Jews are not a humiliated people, that in spite of the attempts to defile and denigrate them, they are alive and well and that they are doing more than surviving (much less can be said for the Nazis and their sympathizers)--Jews all over the world from every strain of religious...
...phenomenon of sponsor-owned shows in the 1950s began to fade when advertisers realized they could better reach a target market by spreading their ad budget across many shows rather than by socking it into one. But that's not so easy in a world of 500 channels and ever more "new media" outlets. "There's more competition in the marketplace," says Cheryl Kroyer, director of media services at Polaroid's ad agency, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. So advertisers who can afford it are going back to sheer, unavoidable visibility--and there are few things more visible than the Church Lady...