Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea that I'm knocking the American system," said Al Capone. Celebrate the contradiction, the ironies. Celebrate the changes: the church becomes the bank becomes the alehouse becomes the madhouse becomes the whorehouse becomes the church. Celebrate the mobility, that we are a people in perpetual motion, whose motion is not aimlessness but optimism. A dreamy...
Much of ILM's trickery is aimed at making these inanimate figures appear to move and act. In some cases, movement is simulated by stop-motion photography (the same technique that gave life to the original King Kong). The object is photographed one frame at a time and moved manually a tiny bit for each shot; when the film is projected at normal speed, the figure appears to be in action. Today, however, creatures can also be manipulated by computer- controlle d motors in an ILM innovation known as "go-motion," which produces more realistic movement...
...added one by one in as many as twelve layers. For a brief shot of a space battle in Return of the Jedi, 63 layers were required. This and other complex scenes are made possible by a computer-driven camera developed by ILM that can repeat the same motion over and over so that new elements can be added with great precision...
...twists and turns as the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl. It inflated his personal myth but obscured his achievement as a formal artist--by which, as the political characters in his murals fade into historical remoteness, he must be judged. For its public, this splendid show has set that process in motion, giving us back a great soul who was also, at least some of the time, a great painter as well...
Earlier in the term, Lakhdhir made a motion tochange the name of the Adams House Raft Race. Thecouncil had decided to take charge of the annualevent, calling it the Harvard Adams House RaftRace. Lakhdhir asserted that the name should bethe Harvard-Radcliffe Adams House Raft Race togive women equal billing...