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...perfect when we want to describe something that we would say in a raised voice. Dickens used it quintessentially when the Ghost of Christmas Present bellows, “Come In! And know me better, man!” as did Orwell when he described the chanting of the sheep in “Animal Farm.” However, in simple dialogue we rarely need it. But because the practice of using exclamation points in casual e-mail and text conversations has become so common, now, not adding this punctuation mark to the end of a message makes...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: Missing the Point | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

...sound, we would put small microphones on people, occasionally on the sheep or the horse or the dog. Not so much on the animals—[the microphones] were very expensive and the horse would often break it and so on. That way, while I was filming, I was also listening to people who were a mile and a half away from...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spotlight: 'Sweetgrass' | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...Walking behind the sheep must have been quite an experience—I imagine that many sheep produce quite a bit of waste...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spotlight: 'Sweetgrass' | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...There’s a shot where the sheep go through a town. The municipal authorities had just cleaned the street. 3000 sheep went through and it was just covered with sheep shit afterwards...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spotlight: 'Sweetgrass' | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...What did the sheep-herders think of your project...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spotlight: 'Sweetgrass' | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

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