Word: parallelling
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...about control. Apple employees talk incessantly about what they call "deep collaboration" or "cross-pollination" or "concurrent engineering." Essentially it means that products don't pass from team to team. There aren't discrete, sequential development stages. Instead, it's simultaneous and organic. Products get worked on in parallel by all departments at once--design, hardware, software--in endless rounds of interdisciplinary design reviews. Managers elsewhere boast about how little time they waste in meetings; Apple is big on them and proud of it. "The historical way of developing products just doesn't work when you're as ambitious...
...handed the director, Luis Mandoki, the script that would become “Innocent Voices.”The 12-year-old Torres, nicknamed “Chava” in the film, is played by Carlos Padilla in a remarkable acting debut. He’s a parallel of the title character in Francois Truffaut’s “The Wild Child,” with his mussed hair, small lanky frame, and piercing eyes. Like the boy of that classic film, he swings his limbs in happiness and flashes his teeth in anger, expressing each emotion...
...other half is that rare animal, scurrying about in its natural habitat: the Harvard student. Enough is enough. I’m fed up with nearly getting run over by a tour bus every time I try to cross Mass. Ave. in the morning as it attempts to parallel park in a space that a motorcycle would have difficulty backing into. I’ve had it with the glares that I get when I have to decline to take a picture of Bob, Sue, and the kids when I’m rushing to a class that started five...
Anyone who’s taking the “Art of Film” core will immediately recognize the opening homage in Curtis Hanson’s “In Her Shoes,” as the camera cuts back and forth between parallel scenes of two mobile pairs of shoes cleverly establishing the personalities of their owners. It’s an allusion to the preface of Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train” (and no accident either—Hanson’s 1990 film “Bad Influence?...
While some students said they are enthusiastic about the new commission, which will parallel the work of the Senior Class Committee and the First-Year Social Committee, others said they are more skeptical...