Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gibson and Pat Buchanan have thought Braveheart the very best movie of 1995? But on one matter, few of the cognoscenti would argue. The freshest, most beguiling film to win an Oscar last week was an epic you may have never heard of: A Close Shave, Nick Park's stop-motion, comedy-thriller mini-masterpiece about a dog named Gromit and his pet Englishman, Wallace...
...sluggish era for what most people think of as movies--those two-hour, live-action behemoths that saturate the multiplexes--some of the cinema's most inventive talents are working in miniature: short films, music videos, commercials. Park, 37, a star of Aardman Animations in Bristol, England, has done it all, contributing to the 1986 Peter Gabriel video Sledgehammer and a series of spots for Britain's Heat Electric utility. But Park is best known for his own four films, all Oscar winners or nominees: Creature Comforts (1989), a five-minute potpourri of comments by ordinary English folk put into...
Stop-motion animation, in which each character and prop made of clay or plastic must be adjusted 24 times for every second of film, is a technique that requires a masochistic devotion. Park has that and more: a storyteller's genius for incident and personality. Wallace--an airplane-headed, cheese-loving bachelor--and the silent Gromit share a village home, less as man and dog than as two longtime companions stolidly accepting of the other's quirks. They are, in a way, the definitive English odd couple...
...example, the FBI requested dates that Kaczynski stayed at the Park Hotel in downtown Helena between 1982 and 1995, owner Jack McCabe said. Kaczynski stayed at the hotel 25 times during that period, McCabe said--and four of those stays were within three weeks before or after five of the nine bombings during the period...
...would show that testosterone, like estrogen in a female, can be an additional method of reproduction control," said Richard Sherins, the director of andrology at the Genetics and IVF Institute in Fairfax, Virgina. "Testosterone may be a new way of looking at birth control," says TIME's Alice Park. "If it is true, it would be an exciting flipside as contraception is usually focused on the woman." But, she adds, two and one half years is not enough time to understand how hormone injections may effect a man's systems in the long term, or if they may lead...