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...that point the plane was well past the go/no-go point, traveling at more than 210 m.p.h. A red light--perhaps a cascade of them--should have lit up the Concorde's flight-control panel. The flames coming from the two left engines suggest that they still could have been providing some power, but clearly not enough. A significant loss of thrust on the left side not only pushes the plane left (because the right engines are the only ones pushing forward) but also causes the dead engine wing to drop. As the Concorde struggled to gain altitude, its dead wing...
...detail is too small to be left to the imagination; no time-consuming trick is spared. On a sound stage outside the city, actors wearing Ping-Pong balls all over their bodies run around in a circle of red-lit cameras. The cameras bounce signals off the balls and create a framework for the computer to replicate their bodies. This is called motion capture, and it tends to be used sparingly in video games to clone, say, the slam-dunk moves of an NBA player. In Fantasy, it's used for each one of the movie's estimated...
...going to be a storm." A dark, ominous haze had gathered - disorienting indeed. The water of the Sound had become indistinguishable from the air - all was an inky continuum, a squid's cloud. Only when we looked higher, into the upper air, did we see vestiges of light. We lit a fire and talked awhile, and night descended. The storm never came. We went to sleep...
SONG: Working on the Highway ALBUM: Born in the USA LYRIC: "We lit out down to Florida we got along all right/One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white" SLANT: Anti...
...friend called Brown on it. Brown did not miss a beat. His face lit up with visionary illumination. He cried: "That's fascinating! What we have here is a case of alternate realities...