Word: motioning
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...polls do suggest that plenty of women are in motion, and Kerry has had to struggle since the beginning of this race to win them over--a struggle he can't afford to lose, given that men back Bush over Kerry by a solid margin. Al Gore carried the women's vote by 11 percentage points in 2000, but it was still not enough to win him the White House. "Both parties have had a gender gap--Democrats with men and Republicans with women," says Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman. "At the moment, our gender gap has been fixed...
...mail account (I still use virtually the same e-mail address I had in 1975), and in 1980 I wired my home terminal to the Internet (at 300 baud) by shoving my phone receiver into something that looked like twin toilet plungers. I hooked up full-motion desktop videoconferencing and video mail in 1988 and, four years later, started using a pen-based electronic whiteboard and drafting table...
Jack Valenti, the firebrand longtime head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), was never one to mince words. As the movie industry's chief lobbyist, he knew how to portray his business's challenges in dramatic terms. Back in the 1980s, faced with new technology that supposedly threatened the studios' bottom line, Valenti once famously compared the VCR to the Boston Strangler...
...songwriter has released over 40 albums, including 1997’s Time Out of Mind, a Grammy-winning comeback album that followed several poorly-received efforts and a brief flirtation with fundamentalist Christianity. He won the 2001 Academy Award for Best Song in a Motion Picture for “Things Have Changed” and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
...hour study at a time. First, they watch a screen with animation of a man moving his arm up and down, like he’s waving. Then the cartoon is switched and the man begins to bend and twist his arm in an impossible motion, sort of like Stretch Armstrong. Scientists assume that children will lose interest in the familiar waving gestures first because they understand the universal wave of “hello.” Undergraduates time the duration of the children’s engagement with each cartoon...