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...pictures are sanitized also because they stray so far afield from brush strokes or film grain or even Adobe Photoshop. When we think of image manipulation we still tend to assume some explicit mark of the artist, some tweak here or there, or some sense of humor. The tweaks here are twice removed from what you see, written into the software blueprint, and the only trace of process is a faintly superimposed, bending grid...
...This means, of course, that we must get the small details out of the way. The 152nd installment of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, The Jewel of Denial, thankfully does not stray from the tried and true Pudding formula--glittery costumes, terrible puns, a theater full of drunk alums to laugh when no one else does. But do we still love it? Of course we do. Who wouldn't? The Pudding transcends theater, transcends critical scrutiny, even transcends the magnifying glass of one Dan Wagner '03 (the HRDC wishes it were as transcendent...
...carpet carried by two workmen and flopping onto the pavement, Mary Tyler Moore would have been better off leaving the job to professionals. A stuntwoman was supposed to handle the scene, in which Moore's Mary Richards--now a 60-year-old widow--chases in high heels after a stray dog, but Moore decided to try the pratfall herself. "I became airborne and did a three-point landing," Moore says, and at one of those points, her right wrist, she broke two tiny bones: a metacarpal and the capitatum. The latter injury, quips Moore, "sounds like losing one's head...
Still, the fact that Duehay didn't stray far from home doesn't mean he didn't have his eye on state and national government and issues...
...However, in suggesting that the proposed National Missile Defense system could possibly deal with "potential threats from sources that are not rational," she is dabbling in the irrational. The only possible threat that might be thwarted by the limited NMD system (if everything worked perfectly) is a stray ballistic missile from some so-called rogue nation. The proposed NMD system would provide no defense at all against sea-launched cruise missiles, suitcase bombs or attack by chemical and biological weapons, and these are much more likely threats. The illusion of defense that NMD might provide would be more pork...