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...terminology of this relatively new sport is still in a protean stage. Fans describe the slippery move of the skaters in expressive, everyday language...
...protean treatment by Iacocca of his own proteges hardly inspires confidence that the road will be smooth. The consummate car guy has repeatedly extended and withdrawn his favor since 1978, when he arrived at Chrysler from Ford following his own bitter ouster by Henry Ford II. The first heir apparent was Harold Sperlich, who preceded Iacocca from Ford and developed the K-car line of compact autos that kept Chrysler alive in the early 1980s. Then came financial wizard Gerald Greenwald, also from Ford, in 1979. As Sperlich faded, Greenwald rose to become vice chairman. Just as he was approaching...
...protean forms were achieved through a computer technique called digital compositing. The technique breaks a film image down into a complex numerical code that a computer can manipulate in nearly endless ways, thus altering the image. To change the T-1000 from a robot to its human form, ILM employed a process nicknamed Morph, as in metamorphosis, first developed in 1988 for the film Willow. Footage of the robot and footage of actor Robert Patrick were coded and fed into the computer, which blended one into the other. The illusion of walking through steel bars was created by another pioneering...
Perhaps this moral stand seems unreasonably strict. Remember, however, that "scrupulously honest" is an incredibly protean, subjective concept whose meaning is, happily, quite open to individual personal interpretation...
KAZIMIR MALEVICH, 1878-1935, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The biggest U.S. retrospective yet of a brilliant, protean member of the Russian avant- garde, too long shrouded in Soviet ideological disfavor. Through...