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Death, Elliot says, defines us. And it's just one of a handful of tricks this dark prince of plasticine uses "to make these little blobs as human as possible." His seemingly simple aesthetic is in fact amazingly detailed - every miniature prop, from the curtains on Harvie's TV set to the wallpaper, is handmade - and filmed in a painstaking stop-motion process that took 14 months. "It's very meditative," Elliot says. "You can't rush it." It's also mesmerizing. The film's showstopper is a Busby Berkeley-inspired dream sequence involving Alzheimer's patients in wheelchairs...
...Judith Steinberg Dean appears to be a real person, taking care of real business. Surely she is doing more good by attending to her patients than she would by acting like an adoring appendage to her husband. Dean can take care of himself; he doesn't need to prop himself up on an Adam's rib. Carolyn M. Clayton Kent...
...addition to renovating the public and backstage support areas, the designers also plan to raise the current building and append 40 ft. of underground space to include an additional rehearsal room and prop room, as well as several offices and conference spaces...
...equivalent of an 8% discount on its base model. The move follows a 31,085 rebate offered by GM's Opel to early buyers of its new Astra, which is set to launch in March. In the U.K., many dealers now offer 0% financing - for years used to prop up the U.S. market - as a lure. "From the consumer's point of view, it's paradise, but it's a total disaster for manufacturers," says Peter Schmidt, publisher of an auto insiders' newsletter. He says a list of rebates and discounts now being offered would "be as long as your...
...dogged and earnest as she is when she is campaigning for Kerry on her own, Teresa (pronounced Tuh-ray-za), 65, does not function nearly so well as a prop. Onstage beside her husband during yet another recitation of his stump speech, she stands with her wavy hair falling over her eyes, looking preoccupied or, worse, bored. Only recently did she begin using Kerry's last name, switch her party registration from Republican and quit referring to the late Senator Heinz in the present tense as "my husband." She still has a tendency to volunteer what another political spouse might...