Word: motioning
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...display shelves in a last-ditch effort not to appear rude. I can pass countless hours imagining the scene that would result if I were to casually say “Hi, how are you?” over the store loudspeaker, setting every single customer into ballet-like motion...
Harvard’s brief concludes that “[Minuto’s] position is legally and factually without merit, his conduct has been dishonest, and the motion [to admit Minuto] must be denied...
Nothing could be more old-fashioned than animating puppets by minutely adjusting their movements one frame at a time, but Nick Park's Chicken Run showed that the painstaking art of stop-motion animation could produce poultry worth laughing with and caring about. If the box office starts raining Cats & Dogs (I can't say for sure; I wasn't shown the film), it will be because the animals display amusingly complex behavior--because the film is, for all its cute tricks, recognizably human...
...Hongzhi's lectures at a friend's house. After the crackdown, he put his thumbprint on a police document promising he would never again practice, but he was lying. He never joined in the political protests, but at home he continued meditating and gliding through the slow-motion exercises, jealously guarding his secret belief. But the deaths shook his faith in the movement. "It's wrong for people to do that, for any reason," he says. He no longer practices. "If real belief means putting faith ahead of your own life," he says, "then I guess I don't have...
...With its slow-motion calisthenics and Buddhist philosophical bedrock, Falun Gong seems incontrovertibly Chinese. But the world is a hungry place for new beliefs. And while Falun Gong has been labeled a dissident movement within China?which is how many non-Chinese first heard about Falun Gong and became interested?there are practitioners around the globe with little or no political agenda. Adherents say Falun Gong practice groups can now be found in more than 40 countries and that Master Li Hongzhi's writings have been translated into 10 languages...