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...treatment. For instance, in required seminars that the school calls Lifesteps, students say staff members of the residential program have instructed girls, some of whom say they have been victims of rape or sexual abuse, to dress in provocative clothing - fishnet stockings, high heels and miniskirts - and perform lap dances for male students as therapy...
...while not exactly a gaffe, George H.W. Bush must have wished the cameras weren't rolling when, during a 1992 trip to Japan, he vomited and then passed out in the lap of the Japanese Prime Minister at a state dinner. Ditto for George W. Bush - when he tried to leave a 2005 press conference in Beijing, cameras caught his humiliating attempt to open a locked door next to his podium. The resulting footage was an instant YouTube hit. Bill Clinton was accused of taking trips abroad to distract from his Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky troubles, but still managed...
...Lion in Your Lap!" Experiments in depth simulation go back to the first years of movies. At the end of the 19th century, British inventor William Friese-Greene secured a patent for a 3-D movie process. In 1915 Edwin S. Porter, whose The Great Train Robbery had stoked the first great movie sensation a dozen years before, presented a series of 3-D documentary shorts to a New York City audience, who viewed the short documentaries through anaglyph (red-green) glasses. In the 1920s, many 3-D shorts appeared on programs at theaters such as New York's Roxy...
...made by the renowned avant-garde animator Norman McLaren for the National Film Board of Canada in 1951. It was also the cue for moviegoers the following year, when Bwana Devil, Arch Oboler's low-budget safari epic, introduced 3-D to the postwar audience. "A Lion in Your Lap! A Lover in Your Arms!" the ads read, but the big thrill was a native's spear tossed into the audience. The picture found an audience, and instantly theaters were flooded with 3-D movies - more than 100 features and shorts in the next two years. Though the most famous...
...keep getting nominated for the Best Picture Oscar? These films don't want to establish a hyper-reality, just a familiar reality that brings the viewer immediately into the lives of their characters. Paul Blart, or the kids from Slumdog Millionaire, would not have benefitted from the in-your-lap urgency...