Word: projects
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Being the new kin on the movie block, Pixar had yet to be a force in the movie industry. Luckily, Pixar and Disney teamed up in 1991 and committed to making up to three feature-length animated films. The first project, Toy Story rocked the movie industry. Under the terms of the relationship, Disney took over the finance side; Disney financed the movie and took charge of distribution, marketing, and distribution and took nearly 90% of the profits. With some 50 years of experience under its belt, Disney achieved financial success with Toy Story which grossed $360 million...
...reputation for his ability to exploit his character's internal conflicts in any time or place, be it Jane Austen's England in his 1995 release Sense and Sensibility, or the alienated '70s suburbia of 1997's The Ice Storm. Yet his latest project, Ride With the Devil, based on Daniel Woodrell's novel Woe to Live On, reflects the damage too much praise can have on a director. All that distinguishes Ride with the Devil as anything other than a glorified action flick is a splattering of historical nuances and the occasional flirtation with character complexity...
...installation continues with Portraits of Exile, a 1995 public project in Copenhagen. There, Attie submerged images under the city's main canal to commemorate the role Denmark played in rescuing the lives of its Jewish inhabitants. Many Jews were ferried to safety through fishing routes, so that water and light become working metaphors of representation and remembrance. The piece also thematizes the more recent and problematic immigration of refugees from the Balkans and former Soviet Union seeking asylum in Denmark. More personal is the series Untitled Memory (Projections), in which photographs of the artist's family and friends are cast...
Among other campaign planks, Driskell and Burton say they will put response cards in the dining halls for students to submit comments and complaints to the council. Driskell has also vigorously endorsed the Harvard Census 2000 project, a campus-wide survey which she says will reveal what students would like to change about their undergraduate experiences...
Also, Dean of Undergraduate Education William M. Todd III encouraged professors to make use of the new Undergraduate Council book-ordering project...