Word: fictionalized
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...immersive. It wraps the movie around you. It's not necessarily just for kids' films either. It works in a dramatic sense because it gives you a heightened sense of reality. Whatever you're watching has a kind of a turbo-charged level of audience involvement. In a science fiction film like this one, you'll be able to inhabit that world, not just watch it but be in it. I think people want that. If people are going to get out of their homes and go to the cinema, the cinema better show them something it hasn...
...Science fiction's very good at taking something timely that maybe you can't look straight at. That's its true role, making us think about the consequences of our actions now. Avatar is an adventure about how we as humans deal with nature. I'll probably get a reputation as a tree-hugging hippie...
...Hirsie admits to a fondness for Shakespeare, but says he spends most of his time reading how-to business books these days. "I don't get the chance to read fiction," he says. "A man who reads a novel is a man at rest. A man in Mogadishu works 13 or 14 hours a day. We don't have time for that...
...shows: each couple and girlfriend gets their or her vignette and then fades into the chorus. Robert is the only character who shows significant development; the others are more like snapshots of various dysfunctional New Yorkers. The lives and loves of unhappy Manhattanites are hardly underrepresented topics in fiction, but both the play and the production are witty enough that the characters, while familiar, aren’t at all tiresome...
WHILE KIMBERLIN AND OTHERS were mixing fact and fiction in the blogosphere, organizations with more power and authority were grappling with the challenges of e-voting too. Some studies have found that e-voting reduces ballot errors by preventing voters from voting too many times or not enough in individual races. But the errors e-voting does produce often can't be caught because most electronic machines don't keep a reliable, independent record of the vote as it occurs. Asked to do a recount, a paperless e-voting machine will simply spit out the previous result. That, combined with...