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...sexuality in silk, feathers, a gorilla suit and his camera's soft-focus devotion. As his films got more deliriously abstract, she got restless, and the two parted in 1935. Their legacy is these films: a uniquely frilly and profound record of an artist's obsession with his model...
...followed and made him one of a handful of people who might actually be able to carry a movie, Black moved forward with his plan to make movies fun. Nacho Libre is the first production by Black and White's Black & White Films--"and it's kind of a model of what we want to do," says Black. The movie came about because Black and White loved Napoleon Dynamite, so they called director Hess to see if he wanted to hang out. "There are a lot of people with unique voices out there," says Black. "Mike is a pretty unique...
...infinite values—which are physically impossible. Wilson’s RG theory not only explained these infinite values, it showed that they contained information which allowed for a fuller understanding of the relevant physics.Wilson was among the physicists of the 1970s who developed Standard Theory, the current model of particle physics that refined quantum field theory. Michael E. Peskin ’73, who was Wilson’s doctoral advisee at Cornell and is now a professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, recalls how Wilson synthesized all of elementary particle physics into the Standard Theory...
...emeritus professor of philosophy and intellectual history at the Institute. “My reply was it’s going to be very hard to find a field like that.”Whitman says she knew she did not want to be a housewife, the standard model of the times. “I grew up in a rather academic environment and thought, ‘Gee I’m not going to be an academic or marry one’—and I did both,” says the current professor of business...
...city rated the most violent in the state of Sao Paulo in 2000 now feel they can do business there safely. For 20 consecutive months, Diadema led the state - Brazil's industrial heartland - in the number of jobs created, and it is gaining a reputation as a model of abstinence and urban renewal...