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...wooing clients, once successfully pitching Sears while taking apart a power drill (and putting it back together again without chipping a nail). Last spring when Powell, who'd gotten to know her on various corporate boards recruited her, she had retired to West Palm Beach, Florida, with her white toy poodle. Recently remarried to a New York art dealer and confirmed on Oct. 2, her salary may be a governmental $133,700 but she lives like royalty, buying one house in Georgetown and then another down the street she liked better. Glamorous compared to Jeanne Kirkpatrick and Madeleine Albright, Beers...
Monsters, Inc., the latest enchantment from the Pixar computer animators (the Toy Story films, A Bug's Life), is the story of Sulley, his pear-shaped, Cyclopsian trainer Mike (Billy Crystal) and a little girl--Sulley calls her Boo, she calls him Kitty--who threatens to wreck their world by infecting it with, yick!, humanity. It makes for a lovely lesson in the perils of surrogate parenting...
This past Sunday night, the CNN website displayed the large bold headline: “A Night of Distraction.” With Game Seven of the World Series, the Emmy Awards and “Toy Story 2” tempting viewers on television, many Americans spent the evening forgetting about anthrax and Osama. Instead they stared mindlessly at streams of electrons passing in front of their eyes...
...tiny cabin, jammed so tightly there wasn't even space for Rokaya Satar to hold her two girls in her arms. The sisters had to stand, clinging to her skirt. And when the engine suddenly stopped and the wooden fishing boat was rocked back and forth like a toy by the 4-m waves, Rokaya could only grab her daughters' hands and try to avoid being knocked over by the screaming stampede of mothers and children. Then came another, bigger jolt as the boat capsized, and Rokaya could only watch as first her five-year-old was pulled from...
Arguably the most important component of this genre is exceptional computer animation: Monsters, Inc. shows just how far graphics have come since Toy Story (1995). When Sulley and Boo traverse the grotty cellar hallways of the factory, it is almost impossible to distinguish the rendered atmosphere from reality. The marvels of digital animation do not detract from the “actors.” The Pixar crew can pack a truly amazing amount of emotion into the eyes and expressions of their creations—emotions that run the gamut from manic hyperactivity to bittersweet poignancy. Nor can technology...