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...Moreover, all the mayhem fits into Bekmambetov's visual strategy. As he demonstrated in the Night Watch-Day Watch series (which also concerns a team of superior beings battling in a grungy modern city), he's masterly at creating a dense world where soaring fantasy collides with mangy realism. He takes the try-anything brio of classic Hong Kong action filmmaking - slo-mo, speedy-mo, disorienting overhead shots, the whole lexicon of cinematic hyperventilation - and adds his own precision and an acrid, puckish sense of humor...
...company, Geodynamics now plans to build enough wells to run a 50-MW commercial power plant by 2011. That feat will need much deeper wells and better water flows. If it works, Geodynamics will build more wells to produce 500 MW - about the output of a modern gas-turbine power plant...
...country but also what it takes to create and sustain greatness." That formulation is what this campaign should be about: defining America's course in the 21st century. The candidates may have different views on what makes us proud to be Americans, but they share a belief in a modern American exceptionalism: that America has a greatness of purpose that no other nation does, and that for all our achievement, our greatest tasks remain before...
There was a day long ago when all you could do to study the universe was pull out a telescope and look up. Physics did not come of age until the late 1800s. Now any modern-day astronomer is also an astrophysicist. We use them interchangeably...
...East Side and is on his way to college--his safety school, but still. In Weeds, Mary-Louise Parker's a pot dealer who sells to successful, bored, suburban business types. Even the protagonists of Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay, the closest thing we have to a modern Cheech and Chong, are a banker and a med student. Pot smokers aren't outsiders anymore; at worst, they're arrested adolescents...