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...Eliza actually learning to speak; we don't see her triumph at the Embassy reception; we don't see Higgins' nominal rival, Freddy, at all after the third act. What we do see are the progressive stages of the awakening of a human being, measured against the stubbornly static position of her awakener...
...things we had to work on especially moving and driving without the ball," Zimmerman said. "We were very static especially on offense and that is typical for the first competition of the year. But it was a definitely a confidence builder...
...warriors such as AT&T, MCI ($18.5 billion) and Sprint ($14.1 billion) are huge, well-capitalized companies, they can't duplicate the $100 billion infrastructure of switches, wires and poles that serves local neighborhoods. Deregulation allows them to ride the incumbent's system, but here's where the static begins: they must rely on the tender mercies of the Bells and GTE to put them into customers' homes. That gives AT&T's enemies every incentive to drag their feet, first by challenging the terms of agreements to carry AT&T local traffic and then by taking their sweet time...
...confidence of patronage, in a time when it was increasingly difficult to create public art because of the erosion of shared public values; perhaps the privacy and obscurity of so much of the art itself; perhaps the shift of social discourse toward the moving image and away from the static one. More likely a mixture of all three. In the '80s and '90s, things would get big and expensive, but no longer grand...
...show-off panache with which its director and co-writer, Luc Besson, deploys them." Besson's energy and inventiveness are considerable and, up to a point, quite entertaining. Indeed, one could argue that his work offers a distinct kinetic improvement over classic sci-fi, generally a talky and static genre with its space voyagers forever standing around discussing whatever strange phenomena they encountered in their travels, and none too subtly offering futuristic metaphors to help the audience understand. On the other hand, Besson, like most pop futurists these days, has nothing but ironic knowingness to replace this old-fashioned high...