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...Yeah, I mean he’s no Kofi Annan, but at least “3rd Rock From the Sun” made a difference in our lives. Which is more than...
...aftermath of its release, Foer was popularly cast as something of a literary messiah–an attractive young rock star, almost, who could inspire teenagers not only to read but to wear his name on their t-shirts...
...biographies, photographs and maps, the historian traverses ground that has since been overrun by tyrannies and famine. The arena is variously host to epic, comedy and finally tragedy, and it houses enough intrigue to fill a shelf. Here is the gigantic face of Mussolini, carved out of East African rock, a modern sphinx without a secret. Here is Haile Selassie, dwarfed behind a desk only slightly smaller than an aircraft carrier. Here is Sir Sidney Barton, the eccentric British envoy who provided the model for Sir Samson Courteney in Evelyn Waugh's farce Black Mischief. Here are camels and trucks...
...easy to make something look smooth, like plastic or ice," says Wayne Carlson, director of production at Cranston/Csuri Productions in Columbus. "What's difficult is to give something the mottled look of bark, leaves or grass." Texture mapping, a computer technique akin to wrapping a photograph of a rough rock around a smooth stone, is one solution to the problem. Another involves the use of a class of equations called fractals. "It's a technology for filling in random surfaces in a way that mimics the way nature is random," explains Lucasfilm Researcher Robert Cook. "You want a rock...
Memories of the '60s will also be wafting out of NBC's The Motown Revue Starring Smokey Robinson. Along with contemporary musical numbers, each show will feature a salute to one year from Motown's heyday. Dick Clark's Rock'n Roll Summer Action, the lone summer entry from ABC, seems aimed at younger viewers (under eight, perhaps) but nods to an older crowd with guest appearances by such relics of the Top 40 as Jan and Dean and Paul Revere and the Raiders. The show makes another contribution to the nostalgia vogue: its mindless fun-on-the-beach antics...