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...OPERATING TABLE IN A small white room, a naked humanoid creature lies supine and inert--its stomach bulbous; its six fingers slightly curled; a deep, foot-long gash in its right leg. Two humans in white contamination suits circle the creature, slicing its chest, sawing its skull in half, removing internal organs. A third takes notes on a sheet of paper. Behind a window, a fourth person watches, hidden by a surgical mask. The only identifiable figure is the humanoid. Its face shows strain, perhaps pain. When the camera recording the event catches the creature's sightless gaze, an eerie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOPSY OR FRAUD-TOPSY? | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

Heroic Professor of Classical Greek and Comparitive Literature Gregory Nagy is concerned with the socio-cultural implications of cross-walk wars. "If the signal is a defiant stopping humanoid in red and a cheerful walking humanoid in green, then I would not [press the button]," says Nagy. "There is not enough semiotic power," Semiotic power?" Anyone who took Heroes would know what I mean...

Author: By Joshua D. Fine, | Title: For the Moment | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...Pumpkinhead II, due this fall, he plays a mayor protecting his city from a giant humanoid squash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rogergram Our Periodic Update on the First Half Brother | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...host of other artists. Hilary Hansen's impressive set establishes itself as a force for the entire production, using colors that accentuate the nihilistic themes of Hamletmaschine: blood-red and the Ex's standard, black. The dour colors of the set are unexpectedly highlighted by a backdrop of humanoid figures dressed in vibrant shades of yellow, blue, green and white. The set's centerpiece: an obtrusive, enigmatic coffin/stage entrance for the cast...

Author: By Brady S. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hamlet, Audience Lost In Gears of Maschine | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

...company managed the first convincingly in Backdraft and the second with the slinky pseudopod in The Abyss. An ILM team led by Steve Williams animated -- brought to life, if you will -- the T-1000 creature in T2, which could transform itself from, say, linoleum into a lethal humanoid weapon. "Movie effects have been the same for a hundred years, and they're changing this year," Williams, 30, says with a visionary's lack of modesty. "This is the milestone right here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Put The ILM In Film | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

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