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...When you drop [the pen] vertically, the whole pen is the mass that comes to a dead stop,” he said. “When you drop it on a 45 degree angle, the collision is much less noisy, because part of the pen??s translational energy is converted to rotational energy...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Footwear Changes Running Stride | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

Elegy Directed by Isabel Coixet; rated R; out now Professor has affair with lovely grad student: we've heard that one before. So had Philip Roth, whose novel The Dying Animal is acutely attuned to the dissonance of May-December love. This fine film has a touching performance by Pen??lope Cruz and a great one by Ben Kingsley. Cue the Oscar buzz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things You Should Know About | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...several enduring works that examined his homeland's troubled past. Among the many tales he spun out of the jarring legacy of the Spanish Civil War, Belle Epoque earned him an Oscar for Best Screenplay in 1992. The film, which marked the first major leading role of fellow Spaniard Pen??lope Cruz, harked back to a less complicated time, on the eve of dictator Francisco Franco's rise. With a deft ability to move between drama and levity, innocence and anguish, he is credited with inspiring anew Spaniards' passion for film in the postwar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

Paul and Matt are joining the ranks of Marty and Leo, Pedro and Pen??lope, Quentin and Uma--modern pairs of directors and actors who find they speak a common language and choose to do it again and again onscreen. The Bourne movies, unlike most meticulously planned and elaborately staged action pictures, are filmed guerrilla-style in the chaos of the urban world, a process that demands more than the usual team mentality. "It's like going to war," Greengrass says. "Who's going to be there? You want to know that someone's there every step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Bourne Boys Keep it Real | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...ever dream of. Nicolas Sarkozy’s campaign headquarters was its own island; François Bayrou’s handed out t-shirts that read, “Sexy Centrist”; at one point, protesters staged riots outside the headquarters of far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen??s headquarters and tossed exploding pigs at security officers...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: The Politics of Second Life | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

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