Word: procession
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...pictures his body and then mentally erases portions of it; he begins with his toes, which instantly become numb. By this means, he imagines that he is bringing about his own death, piecemeal--seizing control of it and turning it into a volitional act, even an enjoyable one. "The process of dying by auto-dissolution affords the greatest ecstasy known to man," he tells us. The subtitle of The Original of Laura is Dying...
Often, before a movie scene is filmed, the director and cinematographer will bring in the leading actors' stand-ins to light and frame the shot. The opening image of Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces shows this process with a stand-in for Penélope Cruz. Then the star actress enters the frame. She looks so somber, as if she's about to read a death sentence...
...this fall’s launch of the new General Education curriculum, heading the General Education Standing Committee since 2007, which has approved over 150 courses for the program. This fall, Harris became the faculty director of the Office of General Education, which is in the process of absorbing the Core Program...
Pennink and Ferguson are currently in the process of creating a TV series based on another course taught by Ferguson, “History 2921: The Western Ascendency...
...source material may be left somewhat bewildered by the vaguely serialized, disjointed final product. McCarthy’s book, as spare and angular as it was, remained a cohesive, plot-driven whole. Hillcoat’s film seeks to distill the novel’s essence, and in the process loses some of the details that would keep an uninitiated audience engaged. (Given how well the film works as it is, this is not so much a criticism as it is an exhortation to read the book before viewing...