Word: phantom
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...production are often done digitally, while more and more films are being shot on digital equipment. So why are we still watching movies the way we did 100 years ago? The movie-house revolution was supposed to start in 1999, when George Lucas released Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace and set up special screenings to show how much better the film looked playing on a digital system. But few in the industry followed his lead, fearing that fast-advancing technology would make the equipment obsolete the moment it was taken out of the box. Nor could anyone decide...
...ends in the dénouement. Dramas are free to leave them unresolved, especially if the lack of resolution is truer to life, which is certainly the case in the instance of divorce. The final moments of “Squid” may feel amputated, but the phantom ache of the missing scenes is precisely the feeling with which the film should conclude. —Staff writer Bernard L. Parham can be reached at parham@fas.harvard.edu...
Snow is not alone. The phantom employment record, as it might be called, is a common executive-retirement practice in corporate America--and one that is spelled out in corporate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Drew Lewis, the Pennsylvania Republican and onetime head of the U.S. Department of Transportation, got a $1.5 million annual pension when he retired in 1996 as chairman and CEO of Union Pacific Corp. His pension was based on 30 years of service to the company, but he actually worked there only 11 years. The other 19 years of his employment history came...
...range of smells. In the absence of “evidence,” we developed a couple theories that seem pretty solid: 1) The ghost of John Harvard haunts students in their daily meanderings, cutting ass so hard that the smell manages to open a rift between the phantom realm into the material world, like Keanu Reeves’ in that movie. 2) It is the new terrorism, designed to make living in the city vaguely irritating until one day you just lose it and say, “Punk this, I’m going to kill myself...
...would seem at first, a record for these times. Bono and the rest of the Irish band called U2 seem to be citizens of some alternative time frame spliced from the idealism of the '60s and the musical free-for-all of the late '70s. Their songs have the phantom soul of the Band, the Celtic wonderment of their compatriot Van Morrison and some of the assertiveness of punk, refined into lyrical morality plays...