Word: motioning
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...handful of tricks this dark prince of plasticine uses "to make these little blobs as human as possible." His seemingly simple aesthetic is in fact amazingly detailed - every miniature prop, from the curtains on Harvie's TV set to the wallpaper, is handmade - and filmed in a painstaking stop-motion process that took 14 months. "It's very meditative," Elliot says. "You can't rush it." It's also mesmerizing. The film's showstopper is a Busby Berkeley-inspired dream sequence involving Alzheimer's patients in wheelchairs, but for much of the film, all that seems to move is Harvie...
...More than 3,000 wretched civilians live near the five S.S.A. camps along the Thailand-Burma border. One-tenth of them are orphans. Many others are dazed and traumatized, or missing limbs from land mines. These are all victims of a slow-motion genocide. To cut off popular support for the rebels, the Burmese army drove hundreds of thousands of Shan, Lahu, Pa-O and Akha villagers from their homes across Shan state in an orgy of looting, burning, torture and massacres. Human-rights monitors have documented the rape by Burmese soldiers of hundreds of women and girls, some...
...November, U.S. District Court Judge John C. Lifland, a 1957 HLS graduate, denied FAIR’s motion for a temporary order immediately suspending enforcement of the statute...
...Mission? is a heckuva ride. They give you three or four chances to back out before the harness slips down and, in a room that doesn?t go anywhere, they zoom you to Mars. If you?re squeamish, take their heed. They keep saying the ride can cause motion sickness, and I will offer as Exhibit A the young man in the simulator next to ours who lost lunch on his way to the exit. For all the physical effect it is capable of, ?Mission: SPACE? is, I would aver, subtle. I guess the seat moves and somehow impersonates weightlessness...
...Because of the motion offense, they do a great job lifting help away from him,” Sullivan added...