Word: flare
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...techniques they had to create a bunch of new names for them. As effects supervisor John Gaeta itemizes them in the forthcoming book The Art of Speed Racer: "'Faux lensing' toward a 'Photo Anime' film format (including designer shape de-focus, infinite depth of field, bling and super-bling flare enhancements and candy-inspired 'Techno Color')." You can tell that everyone had liberated fun making the film; it feels like the group effort of Mensa kids let loose in the paint store. More than the story of the Racer family, Speed Racer is the visual autobiography of the Wachowskis...
...John M. Tobin School and the possibility of an International Baccalaureate program at the high school was up for serious discussion at a roundtable this month. Fowler-Finn said he feels that the unanimous passing of the budget is a good sign of progress, despite tensions that sometimes flare up at school committee meetings.“I think this bodes well for this school system,” he said. —Staff writer Vidya B. Viswanathan can be reached at viswanat@fas.harvard.edu...
...recalls the vapidity and gross superficiality that followed in its wake. As a portrait of the West’s last years in the Cold War, then, “Saturdays=Youth” succeeds splendidly, just barely hesitating to spoil moments of glowing artificial beauty with its gluttonous flare for the baroque.But make no mistake—it’s the beauty that stands out here. “Highway of Endless Dreams” builds steadily upward from a tantalizing guitar progression into an electronic sea that swirls with waves of radio noise and a computer-processed...
...singer-songwriter Brendan Benson and the rhythm section from Cincinnati garage trio the Greenhornes. “Broken Boy Soldiers,” their 2006 debut, was pretty much what you’d expect: simple riffs and a few catchy hooks punched up by White’s flare for bombast and the duo’s effusive excitement at the novelty of it all. Not exactly inspired, but not quite MOR either—the kind of one-off experiment meant to whet appetites in anticipation of the main vehicle.That being said, it’s difficult...
...decision making that constrains the state's ability to be flexible in the face of new challenges. Hu is painfully aware that his political position may well rest on the outcome of moves he ratifies on big issues like Tibet, where he served as Party Secretary during the last flare-up of protests in 1989. "Like the bureaucrats beneath them," Link says, top officials "are frightened about their own positions and don't want to been seen as making 'mistakes,' especially mistakes of softness...