Word: lightness
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...church, the brothers decided to return to what had been an adolescent hobby, playing with a video camera. In 2003, they asked their church for $20,000 to form a production company, Sherwood Pictures, and make a movie, Flywheel, about a dishonest used car salesman who sees the light. Flywheel got a local theatrical release and a pickup by Blockbuster Video, and went on to sell more than 200,000 DVDs. But it was Sherwood Pictures' second film, Facing the Giants, a 2006 parable of football and faith, that earned the Kendricks notice in Hollywood. Produced...
...Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) was going to turn into Pop Up Debate and ruin the electoral process for me forever. The ICA billed the event as “a live remix of the first presidential debate, morphing words and images into a nonpartisan spectacle of light and sound,” which was not at all appealing to my scarred psyche.Little did I know what I was in for. The evening was helmed by the Boston A/V DJ trio Sosolimited, whose original software transformed the debate into a spectacular of technical punditry. Using the audio, video, and, most...
...crisis is brewing. In light of a several recent studies underscoring the importance of sleep for strong academic performance, a number of Massachusetts colleges have become alarmed to discover just how little their students are sleeping. The problem is endemic to many institutions—according to a 2007 study, nearly 40 percent of college students reported feeling rested no more than two nights a week. As a result, several nearby colleges including BU, MIT, Tufts, and Wellesley, have initiated sleep-awareness campaigns to enlighten students about the need for Z’s. With 24-hour libraries, time-consuming...
...hours of the night. These activities only serve to increase students’ chances of becoming victims of crime, and students themselves should be taking further precautions to prevent that from happening. The university has worked to accommodate our 24-hour lifestyles, constructing a system of blue light alarm systems and instituting programs such as the Harvard shuttle service and the Harvard University Campus Escort Program (HUCEP). Yet even in the face of the recent increase in crime, many of these services continue to be underutilized by students, who instead continue to put themselves unnecessarily at risk. Obviously, being...
...they were equally aware of the Senator's strengths - his wisdom, his experience, his oratory gifts and his impressive life story. And if the primary prerequisite in a vice-presidential pick is finding someone unambiguously qualified to inherit the Oval Office, Obama made a judicious choice, especially in light of the competence questions that have continually dogged Biden's embattled Republican counterpart, Sarah Palin. Indeed, even the Republicans - who have hit their opponents on a wide range of issues, in keeping with the nonstop attack politics of the modern era - have not disputed Biden's readiness to lead...