Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rosovsky says he seen, "no magic solutions" to this problem, but only several inessential steps Harvard might take to relax the number of tenure appointments from within...
...nature of basketball, some would say the flaw in basketball, is that the game is nearly always won or lost at the center position. Julius ("Dr. J") Erving of Philadelphia and Earvin ("Magic") Johnson of Los Angeles lead their teams artistically, but Erving is a forward and Johnson a guard. It is around the 76ers' Moses Malone and the Lakers' Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the centers, that the current championship series, and the basketball universe itself, revolves...
Alan Kay, chief scientist of Atari, closed the conference with a vision of the video-game joy stick as a magic wand capable of creating new worlds. The video game, he said, aligned with the computer, was "a new kind of kinetic art," a medium that will allow the user to explore his own imagination. "Games are the most important thing ever invented," he noted, "because they allow us to control and amplify our fantasies...
...quarter of Jedi's budget, $8 million, went into special effects, most of which were shot at Industrial Light and Magic, a division of Lucasfilm, in Marin County, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. The model shop made everything from the Death Star to Han Solo's saucer-shaped Millennium Falcon, and the optical department made its models look as if they were both big and in movement. Most of the flying objects in Jedi were really stationary, and the camera did all the moving...
Lucasfilm and its various divisions, like Industrial Light and Magic, are doing well. I.L.M., for example, has created special effects not only for Lucas' films but for others too, including Star Trek II and E.T. The company spends about $3 million a year on research and development of things like better sound systems for movie theaters, and it is pioneering the art of film far more than any of the Hollywood studios. Even after generous profit deals for his stars and associates (Mark Hamill, for instance, will receive 1.5% of the profits of Return of the Jedi), Lucas...