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Unbreakable begins dramatically, with comic book collecting statistics filling the screen before the story of Elijah's birth. Time transitions to the future and Bruce Willis on the train immediately before its crash. All of the movie's action is contained in these first few scenes, and the rest of the movie is simply a series of reactions to the train crash...
...lair, and screams are heard from behind the door. Cut to: a crucifix covered in women's scalps, THE END. Protests over this sequence, and the film in general, in local newspapers caused a group of fervent rightists to invade the theater showing it, where they sliced up the screen, attacked the audience physically, and destroyed the original Surrealist canvases adorning the theater's lobby. Others found the filmmaker's artistic act of provocation to be a work of genius: avowed fan Henry Miller proclaimed that "they should take Buñuel and crucify him, or at least burn...
...research that led to his Ph.D. dissertation, Holcombe developed a technique in which two Gabor patches--spinning, ridged, colorful circles made out of sine waves--are superimposed on top of each other on a computer screen...
...forum's big screen loomed over a crowd of students, many completing problem sets while listening to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) live from the Parliament buildings in Ottawa...
...Internet appliances--devices that browse the Web and send e-mail, without the complications of a full-fledged PC--but the Gateway Connected Touch Pad ($599) drew the biggest crowds. It has a touchscreen, so you can pick it up like a notebook and write directly on its screen with a stylus. While it's easy to use, it's also technologically cutting edge: a low-power Crusoe chip gives it extra-long battery life, and instead of Microsoft's Windows it runs the crash-proof operating system Linux. Needless to say, Bill Gates was not spotted admiring this...