Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...original script was set in New York City. When Niccol teamed with Weir, they changed the scene to Seahaven (much of the film was shot in Seaside, a Florida resort community), where everyone loves Truman because, well, they're paid to. Says Niccol: "We decided to make him a prisoner in paradise." He toyed with various endings--Truman stumbles into a Truman Burbank memorabilia shop, Truman is reunited with his lost love, Truman decides he loves life on TV--and finally devised the current ending, nicely abrupt and ambiguous. "We felt the viewer could write a better ending...
...student, I got the sense that the faculty was, and still is, using the typical Harvard defense: This is just the way things are, so live with it. It's a pity that at one of the most prestigious universities in the world, the faculty still has to resort to the paternalism that is grounded in the misguided belief that we need to be protected from ourselves. Only at Harvard. SOZI SOZINHO '97 Philadelphia...
After 15 years as a chef in Vail, Colo., James Gibson has a memory of every bump and turn on the resort town's famous slopes. Now he offers the next best thing to even first-time visitors. For as little as $15 a day, Gibson's Maptrek company rents skiers and trail bikers fanny packs equipped with global-positioning satellite devices that record their every move. At day's end they get a map showing their precise path and approximate speed. In the fall, Gibson will add head-mounted videocams, so visitors can replay their adventures...
...convinced Krav Maga is hands-down the best system going," says Detective Brian Arnspiger, defensive-tactics trainer of the Burbank police department. "It's saving lives and decreasing injuries to both officers and suspects by providing us with quick, simple ways of subduing suspects without having to resort to a weapon or excessive force...
...Sources say Dad had a knack for charming wealthy women, and he lived a life of luxury in Palm Beach, where he called himself William Martin and variously passed himself off as a doctor, a Harvard-educated lawyer and a government agent. It worked just fine in the tony resort, where nobody gets too nosy about anyone else's millions. In fact, nobody asked much about any aspect of Martin's past. Not until April 16, when police came knocking...