Word: stoppingly
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...Stop-motion is an exacting form of animation in which puppets are posed in a scene, then photographed for a single frame, then moved ever so slightly, then photographed again - and 100,000 or so frames later, presto, you have a feature film. It's been around from the beginning of cinema, since 1898, and for the patient artists behind the scenes, it must seem it takes about that long to finish a movie...
...form pays off. Generations of TV kids have enjoyed the stop-motion subdivision called Claymation, which produced such scamps as Gumby, the California Raisins and Eddie Murphy's Fox series The PJs. And on the big screen the results can be movie-magical. Among the stop-motion marvels are Willis O'Brien's King Kong; the mythical creatures molded and manipulated by Ray Harryhausen in pictures like Jason and the Argonauts and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger; those endearing English eccentrics in Nick Park's Chicken Run and the Wallace and Gromit shorts; the sprightly ghouls...
...Selick made the film at Laika, the Oregon animation outfit owned by Nike cofounder Phil Knight. The studio formerly housed the facilities of stop-motion producer Will Vinton, who'd done Oscar-winning shorts and The PJs. Knight, a stockholder in Vinton's company, took over the place essentially to please his son Travis, who'd been a junior animator under Vinton. It's the grand gesture of which only zillionaires are capable. A man sees his child merrily playing with model trains, so he buys the kid Amtrak...
...remarks made in New York, GE (GE) CEO Jeff Immelt said that the economy was in as bad a shape as at any time since the 1974 recession. If it should get worse, he remarked, "Once you break through '74-'75, you don't stop 'til you get to 1929." At almost the same hour, Bill Gross, the undisputed king of the fixed income world and chief of investments at Pimco stated "the U.S. may slump into a 'mini depression' unless policy makers spend trillions of dollars to spur growth." He did not make the distinction between a "mini depression...
...just the last day or so, the volume and velocity of the discourse have about whether the economy can recover from its sharp drop or whether the fall will be inexorable and stop when the value of goods and services in relation to income is at a 100-year...