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Movies like Star Wars, the pioneer of effects-laden movies, engendered "The Making of..." specials in which audiences saw that the production of the special effects was sometimes as interesting, and requires as much ingenuity, as their placement in the actual movie. Now, it's simply: "Oh, they did that with computers." We are by now so numbed to realistic-looking explosions and sci-fi stuff in movies that we take their existence for granted...
...news produced only smiles and happiness in the teammates, who were obviously pleased with the placement...
When George H. "Troy" Durham III '99 transferred to Harvard from the University of Utah, he discovered the College did not have a language placement exam in Portuguese, a language placement exam in Portuguese, a language Durham spoke fluently after living in Portugal for two years...
...change to the language requirement could potentially affect how admissions applicants plan their high school Advanced Placement courses and how undergraduates arrange their schedules, and could trigger fluctuations in language course enrollment...
...misgivings about Daniele Gatti's sense of expression were quelled with the introduction of the Mahler symphony. From the first notes of the melancholy Funeral March, Gatti was literally on his toes, straining visibly to extract as much sound as possible from his orchestra. Again, the central placement of the cello section onstage allowed for the diffusion of a remarkably pithy timbre perfectly suited to the first movement. Passages seemed to dissolve into dissonance, sliding into prolonged suspensions wherein the orchestra became a sea of reddened faces...