Word: foraying
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Come Oscar time, nominations for The Incredibles, Disney and Pixar’s latest foray into the CGI world which they created, will likely be relegated to a single category: “Best Animated Feature.” More than the actors or the creative team, the film’s computer-generated content will be the draw for the vast majority of its young audience. No matter how photorealistic the images, how human the voices, for most viewers the movie will primarily be seen as pixels on the screen. But not for Brad Bird...
...said that following last week’s announcement that alcohol distributor United Liquors had refused to provide alcohol for the Harvard-Yale tailgates, the Council was working with a “number of other distributors throughout the state” to ensure that alcohol makes its annual foray at The Game...
...thanks to a new book with equal appeal to the dreamy, artistically inclined fantasists and to their over-achieving, practical-minded counterparts - and even to the wider, more socially-well-adjusted reading public. "Suspended in Language" (General Tektroniks Labs; 318 pages; $25) takes the comic format on a rare foray into the world of science fact rather than -fiction. Written by Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by Leland Purvis, the book offers an engrossing biography of the life and work of Danish theoretical physicist Niels Bohr, famous for his pioneering work on atomic power...
...film Primary, which kicked off the HFA film series on Thursday, chronicles the efforts of John F. Kennedy ’40, who was also a Crimson editor, to defeat Hubert H. Humphrey for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. It is widely seen as the first foray into the politics of cinéma vérité (sometimes termed “direct cinema”), a subset of the documentary genre featuring factual portrayal of the subject’s activities, with minimal interference by the director...
It’s hard to forget that first foray into a world known affectionately to extracurricular gurus as “postering.” In the past, people-who-postered did their stuff on Mondays and Thursdays around 7:30 am, after Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) had cleared bulletin boards and kiosks. Confusion over postering has reigned since last fall, when, in response to frigid temperatures, the Undergraduate Council successfully launched an initiative to change the kiosk strip times to 12:30 p.m., allowing caffeinated promoters to sleep in a bit. Still, “No one really...