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Unlike the gimmicky Memento, Noe uses the reverse narrative technique for thematic purposes in place of its common use as a flashy glitch in convention. The film’s assertion that “time destroys everything” is utilized visually in Noe’s dazzling transitional phrases. He finds a relationship between the camera’s motion and the darkened landscape the film inhabits to establish an almost ethereal sense of discontinuity in the film’s temporal projection of its characters. The intense violence of the first half of the film is thus...

Author: By Clint J. Froehlich, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Preview | 3/14/2003 | See Source »

What does that exceptionally warm summer represent? Was it just a weird anomaly that briefly interrupted longer-term cooling? Or was the cooling trend itself a temporary glitch, as rising lake levels prior to the mid-1980s suggest? "At the moment," concedes Ohio State University geochemist Berry Lyons, "we don't even know if we're looking at changes that are just regional or if they are related to changes on a global scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracking The Ice | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...exactly a bargain, but U.S. defense officials believe such systems will have to become standard equipment aboard U.S. airliners. They say the terrorists' failure to down the Israeli charter plane last week may have simply been a product of poor training or a mechanical glitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Protect Airliners from Missiles | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

WORST ARGUMENT THAT YOUR VOTE ACTUALLY MATTERS Officials in Florida's Broward County shrugged off a software glitch that left 103,222 votes uncounted because it did not affect any outcomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2002: Highlights, Lowlights And Cooter | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...field hockey team. For now, the troupe has a pressing engagement with their hockey elders and a handle of Bacardi. Exiting the cozy confines of the Yard at 9 p.m., the girls set out for the DeWolfe room of two sophomore hockey players. There’s only one glitch: Where, exactly, is DeWolfe Street? Seasoned FM staffers point the neophytes in the appropriate direction...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Game On! | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

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