Word: linoleum
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...notoriously tough to animate, but the company managed the first convincingly in Backdraft and the second with the slinky pseudopod in The Abyss. An ILM team led by Steve Williams animated -- brought to life, if you will -- the T-1000 creature in T2, which could transform itself from, say, linoleum into a lethal humanoid weapon. "Movie effects have been the same for a hundred years, and they're changing this year," Williams, 30, says with a visionary's lack of modesty. "This is the milestone right here...
...exploration. That's all right, I like pubs better. Unfortunately so early in the morning, only two were open. In Cronin's pub the manager was chopping onions and watching Pep Rally Week on one of the game shows. In another, four men in logo t-shirts were polishing linoleum counter tops and floors...
...needed soy sauce, and the lettuce annoyed me, but what made it better than anything from a more conventional Chinese restaurant was the atmosphere--orange plastic tables, linoleum floors, bring-your-own beer, the clatter and sizzle of the open kitchens. The people sitting next to us were so close, I felt like I should offer them a bite. After all, there was so much on the plate, I couldn't finish it myself...
...when what he does is what he does and not what he is going to do when he grows up. This isn't work, it's me, the Captain acknowledges, exults. What he loves most is the words. The words! At night he hears them scuttling across the linoleum in the kitchen, rattling the dishes. He goes downstairs for a chat. They have a midnight snack...
...Prize and a healthy audience for the other novels (Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game) in Kennedy's Albany trilogy, with its wry poetic naturalism. The bums in Ironweed were not noble, but they had their own gravelly, poignant voices. The family Francis left behind was ordinary as linoleum, but their emptiness left a sympathetic ache in the reader's gut. Francis was drab and cramped on the outside, that husk of a booze-wracked body, but he didn't live there. He came to life inside, with way too many other people -- the loves, enemies and chances...