Word: slow
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...even have an upside for the studios, in terms of pacing and quality control. Too much money in the marketplace has resulted in too many movies competing for eyeballs, some studio execs say. "A lot of us are looking at our release schedules and making a conscious decision to slow it down," says one executive whose studio is currently seeking financing. As evidence, he points to how many companies shuffled their lineups when Warner Bros. moved the next Harry Potter movie from November to summer 2009. "When you take a gigantic vacuum out of the marketplace, everyone gets to breathe...
Nowadays, we have technology that's improved so that we can bring people back to life. In fact, there are drugs being developed right now - who knows if they'll ever make it to the market - that may actually slow down the process of brain-cell injury and death. Imagine you fast-forward to 10 years down the line; and you've given a patient, whose heart has just stopped, this amazing drug; and actually what it does is, it slows everything down so that the things that would've happened over an hour, now happen over two days...
...great thing about being a musician in an age of digital communications, though, is that local obscurity is no barrier to international recognition. Indonesians don't give them a second look, but a buzz about the band - whose sultry, slow-burning trip-hop invites comparisons with Goldfrapp or Portishead - has gently percolated around the region, thanks to a well-tended MySpace presence, Channel V airplay and the fact that Yohanna mostly sings in English...
...then a serious play. With the comedy, all the lights came up to full. And everyone was very, very loud and terribly fast. And in the serious plays, it was positively dark, and everyone was talking very quietly. And I thought, I'd love to write a very, very slow comedy, with none of the lights on. And then I'd write a very bright tragedy, with lots of lights...
...After a slow start, an injury-plagued Harvard men’s soccer team exploded into action yesterday, shutting out visiting Vermont (3-1-2, 0-0 America East), 3-0. The win marked the first home victory for the 2008 team, as well as the first win at Ohiri Field for the Crimson’s new head coach, Jamie Clark. Harvard (2-1-0) got goals from three different players during the matchup. Co-captain Mike Fucito, who leads the team in scoring, began the offensive action when he found the net in the 52nd minute...