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...Auburn Street copy shop formerly known as Gnomon is tossing its old name into the waste basket in favor of a flashier new title...
...sense into her men. Football star Peter Lawford, say, in Good News - she wanted him to hit the books so he'd be eligible to win the big game. Her only severe competition came not from the script but on the screen. Her sweetness might get upstaged by a flashier femme, as she was by Joan McCracken in Good News. Sometimes Allyson lost to a rival from deepest movie memory. In Little Women she played Jo Marsh, the role a much nervier young thing from Broadway, Katharine Hepburn, had taken in the 1933 version...
...Tetris to a video-game publisher today, what would happen? The publisher would say, 'These graphics look kind of cheap. And this is a fun little mechanic, but you need more game modes in there. Maybe you can throw in some CG movies to make it a little bit flashier? And maybe we can tie it in with some kind of movie license?'" Voilŕ: a good game ruined...
...great South Asian rivals to play each other three times since 2004. Technology has played a part, too. Stump-mounted mini-cameras, computer graphics to predict a ball's trajectory and touch screens that allow commentators to write their analysis across the picture have made cricket one of the flashier sports on TV. Speed says even the length of the games?Test matches between national sides can take five days and a series one month or more?is appealing to broadcasters and advertisers. "It's a lot of content," Speed says, "enough to fill a channel for days...
...labels on 12 bottles to make sure we tasted without prejudice. During the tasting, two wine styles emerged. One was marked by a bright red color, had flavors and aromas of toasted cherry vanilla and was kind of clunky in the mouth. While this modern style of Brunello is flashier and gets more of the attention, all my friends preferred the more traditional style. Its color was brown tinged and its texture more supple. Flavor and aroma observations that we shouted out included black olive, summer cherry, cedar and forest honey, but to me a wonderful Brunello will always summon...