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...Mazursky's Enemies; A Love Story and Jerry Zucker's Ghost. He could churn out military music in a minor key, like a sarcastic Sousa; that's what you hear under the espionage chicanery in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz, ornamenting the anti-Nazi smuggling in John Frankenheimer's The Train and underlining the grand folly of two British soldiers' Afghanistan caper in John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King. At times Jarre mocked his own mocking tone, as when he connived with Zucker in the spy parody Top Secret...
...March 8, I took a $73 taxi home from an airport in New Jersey. The alternative was to take a shuttle to a $15 train to the subway. It was late - the train would have left New Jersey at about midnight - so I sprang for the cab. It didn't feel like a big deal at the time. But that was early in the month - long before I knew that I'd be left with just $100 and eight days...
...while allowing for an exposure to astrophysics—will have to be supplemented with additional courses to allow viable bids for graduate school admission. Senior theses, often an important springboard for graduate school applications, will no longer be required. “We have an obligation to train students who are interested in a solid experience in the natural science, but don’t necessarily want to go to graduate school and become research scientists,” said James M. Moran, chair of the Department of Astronomy, in an e-mailed statement.The Educational Policy Committee?...
...rain. It started raining from the moment we got off the bus to the moment we got back on, and it was pretty cold.” Despite the difficult conditions, the Black and White lightweights are excited to finally be racing after an intense pre-season training regime. “We’ve been training really hard and just came off of spring break,” Kharrazi said. “We trained here over spring break. When everyone empties out of campus, we stick around and train.” Though the lightweights came close...
...Lion in Your Lap!" Experiments in depth simulation go back to the first years of movies. At the end of the 19th century, British inventor William Friese-Greene secured a patent for a 3-D movie process. In 1915 Edwin S. Porter, whose The Great Train Robbery had stoked the first great movie sensation a dozen years before, presented a series of 3-D documentary shorts to a New York City audience, who viewed the short documentaries through anaglyph (red-green) glasses. In the 1920s, many 3-D shorts appeared on programs at theaters such as New York's Roxy...