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...Chicago Abyss” also featured an extensive and dangerous imagination, but here the danger was to the shadowy totalitarian state that rules a shattered future America. A few short, straightforward scenes feature an old man (Jon E. Gentry ’07, who is remarkable) talking about his memories: types of fruit, cigarette brands, and so on, to anyone whose path he crosses. Doing so makes him an accidental revolutionary, because to recall the past is to be dissatisfied with the present, at least in this world...
...proposal is relatively straightforward, it could be approved quickly,” said Assistant Dean of the College Stephanie H. Kenen, who is organizing the approval process of secondary fields...
...rock climber, motorcyclist or college kid on a hot date. Add some safety equipment to the equation - a net, rope, helmet or a condom respectively - and the person may try maneuvers that he or she would otherwise consider foolish. In the case of seat belts, instead of a simple, straightforward reduction in deaths, the end result is actually a more complicated redistribution of risk and fatalities. For the sake of argument, offers Adams, imagine how it might affect the behavior of drivers if a sharp stake were mounted in the middle of the steering wheel? Or if the bumper were...
...mobile-phone industry used to be straightforward. Operators, like Vodafone, ran networks based on cellular technologies that transmitted signals through the air from giant, ground-based antennas. And handset vendors, like Nokia and Motorola, churned out phones that worked on those networks, which they'd sell through the operators. An easy-enough, symbiotic relationship for all involved. [an error occurred while processing this directive...
...earlier in the stage production of The Front Page. But he practically trademarked it in MASH. And he kept using it as a way of suggesting that life wasn't as neat as most movie stories. It was a messy thing - chaos, only vaguely organized - and it offered few straightforward resolutions or consolations. To the movie moguls, that was a call to anarchy, and they rarely clasped Altman to their bosom...