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...cast comprising mostly non-professionals, Bethea, with only one other screen credit, is natural and affecting in a role that begins sympathetically, turns cold just when Caleb is getting his promise-keepers act together and at the end has to melt into a resignation that could be renewed love. The one familiar face belongs to Cameron, who as a teen played scampish Mike Seaver on TV's Growing Pains and has since become the Tom Hanks of the niche evangelical-movie market, starring in the three films based on the Left Behind series of Rapture novels...
...Life, the wildly popular simulation game where you can speculate in digital real estate with real money. He also mentions Facebook, where you can spend a buck on electronic flowers for your girlfriend. But in these examples, at least you can see that pretty house or flower on your screen. For a $15 share of Brett Favre, you see his headshot and statistics, information that is available at, oh, about a million different sites on the web. "It sounds incredibly hokey," says Marc Ganis, president of SportsCorp Ltd., a consulting firm. "There's nothing of intrinsic value involved...
...such a respected cast and director, and a screenplay adapted from a novel by a widely acclaimed author, the movie’s failure is even more surprising. Ultimately, “Blindness” becomes a laughable attempt at translating greatness on the page to greatness on the screen. —Staff writer Andres A. Arguello can be reached at arguello@fas.harvard.edu...
...Their technique was flawless. On top of the sentence-layering program, called “Remember When I Said,” there was “Just Face It,” which zoomed in tight on each candidate and repeated the image in little dots across the screen, occasionally freezing a screen shot that would stay as the debate continued. There was also “Me, You, and the Other Guy,” which charted when the candidates referred to themselves, to their opponent directly, and when they referred to him in the third person...
...majors and jobs - even highly educated women more often choose "female" occupations that pay less - but the authors also note that discrimination persists. As one example, they cite a 2000 study which found that when symphony orchestras switched to blind auditions - those in which the musicians play behind a screen - women had a significantly better chance of being hired...