Word: leapingly
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...maybe 2,000 digital screens in the US, it’ll be feasible,” McCallum predicts. Why the uncertainties about the release date? “Theater owners are so greedy,” he says, citing their unwillingness to make the leap to digital. That last comment, along with the aforementioned quotation about Star Wars being a blip, reveal what just might be the central tenet of the McCallum ethos: constant rebellion against the force of film-industry conservatism, all in the name of wild entertainment “You’re losing...
...that's a giant leap from 2003, when only three people redeemed. Space Adventures' first client was American businessman Dennis Tito, who paid $20 million of his own money to go to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2001. It's the ultimate travel high. tel: (1-888) 857-7223; www.spaceadventures.com
...Russian Ilyushin 76 cargo plane used for space training, 11 km above the earth. In 2004, eight people redeemed air miles with Space Adventures for these types of flights at the formerly top-secret Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City outside Moscow; that's a giant leap from 2003, when only three people redeemed. Space Adventures' first client was American businessman Dennis Tito, who paid $20 million of his own money to go to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2001. It's the ultimate travel high. tel: (1-888) 857-7223; www.spaceadventures.com
...young man who harbored "a love for bloodthirsty thuggery." And then he turned really nasty. Mao purged and murdered rivals. He pigged out on exotic delicacies amid the mass starvation his policies caused. (The authors cite estimates that 38 million people died of starvation and overwork during the Great Leap Forward. Mao, meanwhile, stuck to his misguided industrialization plans, blithely commenting that "half of China may well have to die.") In the 1970s, Mao even forbade surgery for his loyal No. 2, Zhou Enlai, who was suffering from cancer of the bladder, in part to ensure that Zhou would...
...through Nov. 27. Unlike Wolohojian, who currently teaches History of Art and Architecture 171w: “Edgar Degas,” I don’t have an expert’s eye for detail, and I’m not used to making that kind of aesthetic leap. But a private tour of the Degas collection with Wolohojian himself taught me how to begin looking at Degas —and the lessons I learned could inform anyone going into the exhibit tabula rasa.In designing the exhibit, Wolohojian says that “the point was to offer...