Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nicole Saffold '02 believed, too, as she surveyed the plays offered last year. After one audition, she reached a point all too familiar to minority drama hopefuls. That point is the nauseous realization that because of that hair and those eyes, there is no place for you in Harvard theater. "I felt alienated not because of not being cast but because of who I saw [involved]," recalls Saffold, an African-American...
...those familiar with director David Lynch's work (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and Lost Highway), this storyline, which is based on the actual journey made by 73-year-old Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth), seems right up Lynch's alley---quirky and Midwestern, with a lawnmower thrown in for good measure. Interestingly enough, Lynch was initially opposed to directing The Straight Story. But after reading the screenplay written by Mary Sweeney and John Roach, Lynch was won over: "[I] wasn't interested in it. I never thought I would make this story, but the screenplay turned me around. I loved...
...grinds slowly, but if you still believe it grinds fine, either you have been blessed with an unlitigious life or you are not yet familiar with the novels of Scott Turow, the practicing Chicago attorney who has managed to find the time to write half a dozen books, including the best sellers Presumed Innocent and The Burden of Proof...
...could impress the viewer with bombshells (real ones); in Millennium (CNN, Sundays through Dec. 12, 10 p.m. E.T.), he has to astonish us with what we already know. This 10-hour, chronological series doesn't always succeed, but at its best, its hyper welter of history renders the familiar surprising...
Light streaming in from space tends to get distorted by the planet's atmosphere, causing a star's familiar twinkle. The CFHT, however, is equipped with optical hardware that lets it calibrate itself on the light from a known star--whose degree of atmospheric distortion will generally be predictable--and then use that information to correct the distortion of other, unknown bodies. A little fiddling with the incoming image and even the blurriest picture snaps right into focus...