Word: scene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this country for a long time. But in practice the story is somewhat different, for the simple reason that at Harvard men and women are not yet equal. This is still a predominantly male institution-in the administration, in the classrooms, and even on the social scene...
Witnesses said they saw between six and eightofficers and four squad cars at the scene. At onepoint, the police officers were surrounded by acrowd of 40 bystanders who questioned them about aracial motive behind the arrest, witnesses said.At 2:10 a.m., Sims was placed in the CPD paddywagon and driven to department headquarters at 5Western...
...original Star Wars trilogy, Lucas was forever frustrated that existing technology could not translate all his notions into compelling, realistic imagery. Today the whole palette of digital technology is much more subtle and supple; if you can dream it, you can see it. And you can play with a scene--keep reshooting it on the computer, so to speak, until it's perfect. As Lucas puts it, "An artist working on fresco had to paint everything before the plaster dried. Then oils were invented. That's what digital is to movies. You can go out in the real world...
...Alfred Hitchcock, actors were cattle. To Lucas, actors are pixels--visual elements whose performances can be refined in computerized postproduction. For a certain scene, Lucas liked Take 4 of one actor, Take 6 of the other; he patched the two together and digitally fixed the middle. "Most directors wouldn't manipulate the scenes as much as we've done," says film editor Paul Martin Smith. "If we don't like how it looks, we change...
...Number of droids and Gungan warriors in the final battle scene...