Word: mins
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...years to make; Ratatouille three years with the original director, Jan Pinkava, and two-plus with Bird, his replacement. You need the devotion and discipline of Cistercian monks, hundreds of them, to get a work of animation finished in less than a U.S. presidential term. Even for a 22-min. episode The Simpsons, six months elapses between script and screen...
...opera, strippers on Renaissance paintings, UFC champions on Finnegans Wake. And I want to hear a 31-year-old guy from New Jersey with a New York Jets spit bucket give his take on wines. Strangely, I'm not alone on that last one. Gary Vaynerchuk's daily 15-min. video blog has 25,000 viewers who click onto his site each day to hear him describe--as he did a few weeks ago--a New World--style Spanish wine as "not obnoxiously over the top and fake as many of these types of wines are. Instead of a full...
That same day, one of the top foreign policy Republicans on the Hill, Senator Richard Lugar, said in a surprising 50-min. speech on the Senate floor that Bush's new "surge" plan in Iraq is failing. "In my judgment, the costs and risks of continuing down the current path outweigh the potential benefits that might be achieved" in changing gears now, Lugar said. Other Republicans, from George Voinovich to John Warner, expressed similar impatience with the progress in Iraq, indicating more defections are not far behind...
...news report about a robbery includes a police sketch of the suspect--a hairy, generic australopithecine; the three cavemen buddies argue the merits of using the slur "Cro-magger." ("It's O.K. when we say it.") The show has potential, but the characters actually seem flatter in the 30-min. pilot than in the 30-sec. spots...
Until he managed to fly 3 miles at 500 ft. for 25 min. in a hot-air balloon he had fashioned using propane tanks, safely maneuvering a balloon for long distances had been pretty much a fantasy. In the wake of that 1960 flight, aeronautics engineer Paul (Ed) Yost, the first to use the relatively cheap propane-burner system for heat, became the father of modern hot-air ballooning, now a popular global sport. Among the many firsts he achieved: a 1963 trip with a partner across the English Channel...