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...When a child screams in delicious fright as these image leap from the screen and into the brain's trauma center, any parent will whisper a consoling "They're not real, honey." They are, though-as real as any nightmares the dream machine can conjure. But a machine didn't dream up, design, build, or give festering life to these creatures. Stan Winston...
...soothing sounds of a babbling brook, "to wash away troubles," he explains as he passes through the second set of doors leading to the check-in kiosks. "Our customers find this sometimes more convenient than waiting in line at the desk," says McGuinness as he taps on the screen to demonstrate how you can select the location of your room. The actual check-in desk, called the Aloha desk, to the left, is circular--there's no imposing, long granite counter. "We wanted to put the desk staff in the middle of the room," McGuinness says as he backs...
With little in the way of furniture, hotels of both brands have reallocated money ordinarily spent on bureaus and armoires--where traditional hotels hide the TVs--toward spalike bathrooms and custom mattresses. Flat-screen TVs duplicate home-entertainment centers--guests can hook up their laptop or iPod to watch movies or rehearse PowerPoint presentations. High ceilings and oversize windows in the 275-to-325-sq.-ft. Aloft rooms make the room feel more spacious. NYLO's rooms have brick walls and concrete floors to create an urban-loft experience--and reduce cleaning costs...
...Clint Eastwood made two films about Iwo Jima that ran for more than four hours total, and there was not one Negro actor on the screen," Lee said last month at the Cannes Film Festival. "In his version of Iwo Jima, Negro soldiers did not exist...
...Lassie. "You say rural, and you think kids are on the farm, lifting hay bales," says Probst. "But they don't do that anymore." What they do is the same thing other kids do, which is to say they spend more and more time inside, in front of a screen--even more so since their homes are a lot likelier than those of suburban kids to lie next to a four-lane interstate or some other decidedly unsuitable place to play. "Kids need a support system for activity," says David Hartley, director of the Maine Rural Health Center...