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Unlike Cassavetes, who relied on the improvisatory intelligence of actors, Zaben does it all himself, including the "performances." This presents the book's biggest challenge: the art. Everything has been drawn with heavy brushes and thick markers, including such normally fine stuff as body hair. The result can either be called bold or crude, depending on your generosity. The stiffly posed characters often seem as inanimate as the objects around them. Faces look identical and show little emotion. This ultimately keeps the audience at a distance, an effect that may very well be deliberate, but nonetheless becomes more...
...reason the folks at FBI headquarters are paralyzed is they have to undergo a Senate inquisition every time they act," says a former Clinton Justice Department official. "If they investigate Wen Ho Lee, it's profiling. If they don't investigate, they're attacked for letting the China stuff go by. They can't win. They are paralyzed because the Senators who are jumping up and down today about the FBI being paralyzed will be jumping up and down tomorrow when they...
JUDGMENT Harmless, but it does make reselling stuff hard...
There is as yet no common word to describe this stuff. "Biotechnology" describes the advancements in biology, and especially the creation of new medicines, thanks to computers. "Technobiology" might seem a good candidate, but it already describes the engineering of new plants. Peter Bentley, a British computer scientist, recently published a book called Digital Biology. But the phrase "biology of business" is heard as often as any other, perhaps because now it's investment by business, rather than government, that's driving most of the advances. Money is already being made by the technology's developers--and there's much...
...very alert when he is functional," says one BJP worker. "But there are very few hours like that." Adds one Western diplomat: "We have a lot of conversations about his health. Some of his mannerisms come down to his personal style. But some of it is definitely spacey stuff...