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...mainstream hits. Jackson's confidence has been validated by the box-office take ($860 million worldwide for Fellowship) and the hatching of a blockbuster franchise. So of course he would believe that the audience can follow this complex storyline, without crib sheets, over a two- or three-year span. And he's right. Taken with its predecessor, The Two Towers makes Jackson's vision even clearer: that the end result will be not three films but one mammoth, majestic 9-hr. artifact that is likely to become the supreme movie epic of our time. Towers, while naturally lacking the variety...
...Plasma displays employ thousands of tiny glass chambers filled with a mix of gasses that light up when electrically charged. Plasma screens dominate the larger size ranges; they produce sharper colors than lcds and can be viewed more clearly from an angle. But they have a short life span?only about five years, says O'Donovan...
...final overtime, with each team battling fatigue and struggling to score, it was Merchant who put down a three with 2:27 to go, breaking a span of more than two minutes for both teams without a field goal and giving Harvard the momentum...
Seventeen of the original 18 bells currently occupy the Lowell tower. The smallest measures the span of a hand, while the largest, named “Mother Earth,” weighs a full 13 tons...
...span of just over four minutes, he’d given the Crimson back its two-goal lead and silenced the sellout crowd of 3,486 at Ingalls...