Word: jamming
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...After naming all 100 movies, take notice of the editing tricks used to jam the video into its 200 allotted seconds. For example, the famous quote, "I'm Sorry Dave, but I can't do that" is lifted straight from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey - but only the first three words make it into the mash-up. Same with Silence of the Lambs: We hear Anthony Hopkins' evil slurp, but the video edits out the quote that precedes it: "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti...
...China, Hummers are rare among the compact and midsize vehicles that jam city streets. Last year, just over 500 were sold on the mainland. As in the U.S., in China large SUVs have a certain cache, but with high taxes on imports, there is little demand. "To drive a Hummer, for rich people it fulfills a certain dream," says Yale Zhang, a Shanghai-based analyst with CSM Worldwide, an auto-industry consulting firm. "In China, it's a niche market for sure. It's too big; it consumes too much gasoline. The price is very high, and very few people...
...recalls thinking. Yet when Brown moved from her self-described “surfer chick” culture to Harvard, she said that she found her niche.“Alison was a convener among conveners—people would bring over their instruments for jam sessions,” Angle said. And despite Brown’s soft-spoken personality Angle said that Brown still managed to be “a center point with the ability to draw people together.”William W. Carter ’84, a fellow banjo player who lived down...
...Vesuvius is dormant, as it has been for more than 60 years. It looks over Naples from the east, with the crystal Mediterranean to the west. Between them is jam-packed, chaotic humanity, though the trash crisis is again dormant as well. For now. Notes Bertolaso: "Naples is a beautiful thing, and like all beautiful things, it's very fragile." And all that is fragile needs the best plans for protection...
...wings of an angel who looks strangely like Drew G. Faust. 17. Play Super Smash Brothers on Nintendo 64 until you enter a new dimension. In said new dimension, hang out with Tupac, who is still living, but in the infinite that is no time or space. 18. Jam with someone who rocks professionally. 19. Be the man (or woman), just for one day. 20. Take it to the max not because you have to, but because Vin Diesel tells you to. Concurrently, meet Vin Diesel. —H. Max Huber ’09, Jake D. Segal...