Word: magical
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...shadow behind him on the wall is the first form of using technology to tell a story." That notion inspires one of Ką's loveliest moments: the male twin and his court jester make shadow puppets--a rabbit, a dog, a bird--on the wall. Simple magic. So is a dance, by Noriko Takahashi, as the daughter of the Counselor's chief archer, that expresses the purest love through the choreographer's art and the dancer's plangent grace. Behind the scenes, Ką is dizzyingly complicated, with a crew of 165, including technicians who operate the gurney crane that moves...
...does not mean the technology is anything like that of office photocopying. Kodak's machines can be 40 ft. long and cost from $11,000 to $5.5 million. Its pricey Versamark, for example, produces color prints in huge volume--at a rate of 1,000 ft. per minute. The magic: digital technology makes it possible to economically print custom copies of anything at almost any volume--books, flyers, bills. "It's a reasonable thing for Kodak to do," says Jack Kelly, an analyst with Goldman Sachs. "The competition isn't as vicious." Barbara Pellow, chief marketing officer of Kodak...
...forward. In a Web poll of Japanese readers, most respondents said that if Kafka were dramatized, they would want to play Oshima, the librarian's impressively literate, transsexual assistant. Others preferred Hoshino, the earthy truck driver who helps the cat-talking old man in his quest to find a magic stone that can free the boy from his curse. Like any Murakami novel, Kafka defies both description and the urge to stop reading...
...most natural topics to be singing about. He took Jamaica's complicated history-a jumble of such disparate concepts, places and things as Rasta philosophy, Garveyism, pirates, rebellion, guava jelly, and Trench Town - and refashioned it into focused, complex music that was concerned with reality but shot through with magic. He was a musical magic realist, a "Natural Mystic", a man who had visions of Jah, but believed in looking "for yours on earth...
...forward. In a Web poll of Japanese readers, most respondents said that if Kafka were dramatized, they would want to play Oshima, the librarian's impressively literate, transsexual assistant. Others preferred Hoshino, the earthy truck driver who helps the cat-talking old man in his quest to find a magic stone that can free the boy from his curse. Like any Murakami novel, Kafka defies both description and the urge to stop reading...