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...depraved, they do make you look closely. With some you've got to look twice to figure out the central camera angle, which part of the body is where, what portion has been stretched thin, and which scrunched up. There is, however, after a point, something off about the fluid violence wrought by technological flourish, la Raiders of the Lost Ark. Even though the effect is a harmless optical trick, there is something staggering about knowing that the sleight of hand required careful encoding of the body as some huge number of data points. Of course this mapping is what...
...media, will telecommute (or, to be annoying, "telework"). For them, job titles will largely vanish--but so will weekends, or whatever is left of them. Technology will enable many of these people to become totally free agents, working at home for one or more companies on a more fluid schedule tailored to their needs...
...gloomy mood 2 "-- opinion" 3 Scandal-ridden German pol. org. 4 JFK arrival 5 Wears out the rug 6 Greenspan of the Fed 7 Cacophony 8 Central figure in a 25-year-old murder case 9 Loesser's The Most Happy -- 11 Serious fluid buildup 12 Police, slangily 14 Bartlett's abbr. 16 "Be prepared" org. 19 Litter's littlest 20 Bauxite or galena 21 Dumb -- (old comic strip) 23 Sot's spree 24 Strip in the Middle East 26 Lesage's -- Blas 27 Benjamin's successor 28 Rush to sell, on Wall Street 29 New competitor for the Pentium...
Starting at the top of the key, she stepped right, took the ball around her back to the left, stepped into the lane and, in a fluid motion, hit a streaking Sturdy to her right with a perfect pass. Sturdy laid it in untouched...
...dreams of writing movies. Imperioli gave Chase a script on spec last season for the chance to write in "a writer's medium, rather than a director's... I felt like such a part of this world, writing for actors I knew." The team shares a gift for the fluid patter of Northeastern Italian Americans (like Chase, ancestral name DeCesare); Edie Falco, who won an Emmy as Tony's steely wife Carmela, says that on other projects, "I instinctively start rewriting my lines--which I'm sure writers hate...[But] I have never, ever had to second-guess with...