Word: lighting
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...fiasco begins as Tim O'Hara (Jeff Daniels) is driving home in his beat-up, smoking car after sabotaging his news reporting career by unintentionally flirting with the boss's daughter (Elizabeth Hurley). Suddenly, a flash of light illuminates the sky, and he slams on the brakes. A spacecraft has landed on the nearby Enter Martian--a red, three-eyed creature who sees O'Hara recovering from the shock and, realizing he has landed on planet earth, chews on a piece of blue gum enabling him to transform into Christopher Lloyd. Grace, the spoiled boss's daughter whose glossy lipstick...
Like a verbose Raymond Carver, author Amit Chaudhuri concerns himself with details of the everyday like the afternoon light as it casts a shadow against a dusty bureau. Chaudhuri's novels are more intimate and optimistic than Carver's tales of people mired in middle age depression. They focus on the unexceptional-impressions of people's lives rather than plot-driven Hollywood cliffhangers with dazzling denouements. There may be an occasional epiphany, a sudden realization about particular relationships between characters, but the "aha" factor is minute and quite understated. The arc of the three novels is practically flat, with...
Crime Waveis strewn with corpses-realcorpses, decaying corpses, missing corpses,decaying corpses, missing corpses, suspectedcorpses, celebrity corpse. If only they were alljust real or imaginary. If imaginary, they exert asort of gruesome grip on our appetite for thesafely distant world of violent crime. If real,they shed light on the fascinating method andmotivation of a major writer. Together, they makea hodge-podg
...Roommates Aaron S. Montgomery `00 and McComma Grayson `00 met while playing a game of Red Light, Green Light on the gravel playground of a Detroit elementary school. They knew each other as rivals from different homerooms--competitors in schoolyard pickup games like juice box football--but when homerooms ended in the fifth grade, this rivalry turned into friendship. Since then it's been happily ever after. "It sounds pathetic," Aaron confesses, "but we do have a lot of the same friends and we hang together. And a lot of times we know the same people but independent of each...
...Begin with some light stretching. Place palms of hands together in a "prayer" position and gently bend fingers in one direction and hold for five seconds. Take frequent breaks during extended periods of twirling...