Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last couple of years, we've had to fight, scratch and claw for 16-play drives to get a touchdown," Murphy said. "Now we feel we have a quarterback who really understands the system, we have a couple of senior wide receivers and if Troy Jones stays healthy we have a little more speed. The combination of those things gives us more of a chance for bigger plays...
...senior visual-effects supervisor at George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic, estimates that it would still take a couple of years of R. and D.--and more money, he says, than it would be worth--to create a fully realized, ready-for-its-close-up human from digital scratch. But that day is surely coming. Computer graphics--CG, in industry shorthand--have already been used to create loosely rendered virtual stunt people suitable for brief action sequences. The buzz has it that James Cameron's forthcoming Titanic will represent a leap forward with its use of CG extras, detailed down...
...like the way the company has been run. The two make for powerful allies, and investors have done well by them. As their nicknames suggest, Price and Dunlap don't get pushed around a lot. But their cozy relationship is worth a look. It demonstrates how influential people scratch one another's back in ways not always brought to light. I should note here that both Price, who owns $63 million of ITT stock, and Dunlap, who has no financial stake in either Hilton or ITT, strenuously deny any tag-team effort. "I didn't even know Michael owned...
...activities of free-lance photographer Robin Dallimore. Clooney snatched Dallimore's camera but was unable to remove the film and asked Dallimore to do it. The photographer obliged, then tried to flee with it, angering Clooney, who, Dallimore says, "ripped my shirt and started to claw me," leaving scratch marks on his neck. Police declined to lay charges, perhaps figuring that's the sort of thing Hellfire patrons...
...search for Real Life is becoming a marketing tool, when Coors promotes itself as the Last Real Beer and cotton is the Fabric of Our Lives, a lot of towns are realizing themselves, deciding it is easier to restore an evocative Main Street than to build one from scratch...