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...boasts three freshmen in the weapon, all experienced in the national circuit, but not the college. According to Brand, this transition can be difficult, as they begin to compete not only for themselves, but also for the team. “I didn’t know the college format,” freshman foil fencer Artemisha Goldfeder said. “So I was a little nervous about what exactly was going on.” “It was really fun, I was a little nervous in my first bout, but after that, once...
...he’d ever seen on the job, the UA’s mind didn’t go anywhere near the gutter. “Somebody once brought in an Apple Two computer who wanted data off his hard drive, because he had a spreadsheet in a format before Excel was invented...seeing an old computer like that, it was like an ancient piece of historic computer history.” It’s naked hard drives, not naked first-timers, that turn UAs on. Rrrowr...
...dealt with the subject of his strongest films: America, chatting as it flailed away, ignorant of its imminent demise. It was subject he painted on a vast, teeming canvas - Brueghel reimagined by Jackson Pollock - where folks elbow and fast-talk their way toward your attention. His fugue format, pouring dozens of plots into a post-ethnic melting pot, gave everyone a brief grab at movie immortality. On the great plains of Altman's precious wide screen, America bustled, hustled and tussled. His searching telephoto lens, focusing on this micro-event or that, suggested...
...characters together and introduces a whodunit teaser. Altman did it, and so much more, with The Player. He continued his innovations with film form in Short Cuts and Ready to Wear and the 2001 Gosford Park. By then, as happens to most pioneering artists, experiment had calcified into the format of "the Altman movie." But what the hell. He created it; he was entitled to develop...
...said, pointing out the difference between “salience” and “importance.” The annual event marked the publication of the Law Review’s first issue of the year, which covers the Supreme Court’s previous term. The format of this year’s forum—Schauer and Katyal spoke individually about separate topics—was different from last year’s inaugural forum. Then, Judge Richard A. Posner and two law professors openly debated the role of foreign court rulings in American...