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...move into the ballroom where dinner will be served. The official beginning of the event is the display of the colors. Everyone remains standing as a line of cadets enters bearing the American flag, and the flags of the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force. The huge room is silent. As one of the seven cadets in the Color Guard, Waterman holds the Army flag in her white-gloved hands. Waterman walks behind the rifleman, who leads the line, and a cadet holding the American flag. She and the other cadets march slowly, trying to keep in step. When they...
...nation has been through with the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.” With a grin, Wheeler maintains that he’s still the fun-loving guy that all his friends knew in college, but just has significantly less time to party these days. SILENT SERVICEUnlike tattoo-clad Delany, Joseph K. Cooper ’07 tends to refrain from advertising his past military service. After high school, Cooper’s lackluster academic performance made him think that a college education may not be the best next step. He enlisted in 1998 and spent...
...Even after a semester in Cambridge, I still find myself issuing a silent plea to a higher power whenever I try to cross Mass...
...watch film clips on it, you can organize your life with it, you can text messages. Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces. One force is very old - from nickelodeons to silent movies to talkies to cinemascope to cinerama to IMAX. The other venue is the gadgets that sort of anchor us in one place and eat up the hours in our day, that makes us wait...
...work, one senses De Heer enjoys working below the radar. "He opens your eyes all the time," says Currie, "and you can never ever pick what's going to happen next." True to form, De Heer is just polishing off the script for his latest project, Dr. Plonk, a silent comedy he intends shooting on a vintage hand-cranked camera. If nothing else, De Heer is up for a challenge. "Filmmaking's a terribly difficult thing to do well," he says. "And if I'm doing the same thing all the time, it becomes just bloody hard work...