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...colleague about how exactly they planned to destroy the neighborhood, the two were detained by security guards). Instead of filming a puppet of Godzilla in stop-motion, as O'Brien had done for King Kong, Tsuburaya put an actor in a rubber suit and ran the camera at high speed, making Godzilla's movements seem appropriately ponderous when played back. The suit, however, weighed 220 lbs. (100 kg), and the actor inside it lost 20 lbs. (9 kg) in six weeks of shooting. With a budget of $1.5 million, Gojira (Godzilla) was the most expensive Japanese film yet made...
...Blues. He was 76. He held one of the most prestigious posts in academia before a slur, uttered while he was ill, ended his career. In 1990, as editor in chief of the project to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls, esteemed biblical scholar John Strugnell was under pressure to speed up the Scrolls' publication. In an interview, Strugnell, who had started studying the Scrolls four decades earlier at age 23, called Judaism a "horrible religion" and "Christian heresy." In the furor that followed, his family disclosed he was battling manic depression and alcoholism. Though he was the first editor...
...great team on a big sheet of ice—that really caters to our style of play,” Cahow said of the Whittemore Center rink. “We’re a very fast, hardworking team with a lot a skill and a lot of speed...We’re pretty excited.” —Staff writer Rebecca A. Compton can be reached at compton@fas.harvard.edu...
...money and power, while Green is left trying to figure out who his mysterious employers are. Ritchie’s take on the crime world has, as usual, some fascinating moments. His slick style of directing, with its quick cuts and seamless transitions, makes the viewer feel the breakneck speed and confusion of the seamy underbelly. And unlike his other films, Ritchie uses this one to to analyze the philosophical aspects of crime. Namely, he delves into what makes a “winner,” primarily through a chess allegory. But the primary flaw of Ritchie?...
...seem to have no trouble abandoning one community for the next, a homogenized landscape (as now seen across the United States) would actually make a...transplantable skilled or unskilled employee feel right at home,” writes Brouws. This transitory nature of American life is apparent in the speed with which derelict sites transform into franchised businesses before being abandoned once again. And yet there is a certain beauty in this constant metamorphosis of the landscape that both writer Fox and photographer Brouws disregard: the landscape is alive and changing from one year to the next, even...