Word: tripodic
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...makes you the man." After reviewing the tape we had made, where I did fine because I wasn't really on TV, she tried to encourage me by saying I was handsome and had "a sexy mouth." I looked at the video camera on the tripod and told Joanne I had to leave...
...sphere is covered with steel panels that inscribe it with meridians and latitude lines, so it stands in easily for the earth. But see it from the side, within sight of the floating models of Jupiter and Saturn, and it's the sun. Get underneath, next to the giant tripod that supports it, and it's the underside of a sci-fi space pod. Stand back in a properly reflective mood, and it suggests the expanding bubble of creation itself. And maybe also that famous perisphere at the 1939 World's Fair--not all the associations here are cosmic...
...half an hour by a couple of daffy Danes? Why would any director toss away the tools of power and sorcery that the movies have spent a century developing? No 150-person crew, no wide screen, no post-synchronizing of dialogue, no flashbacks, no E.T. or dinosaurs. No tripod for the camera. And no director's credit...
Mark Pellington's jittery direction is not much help in establishing the false calm out of which true suspense might be built. He's one of those music-video refugees for whom you want to take up a collection so he can add a tripod and an editing machine with a functioning Pause button to his filmmaking arsenal...
...WILD CARD Shrewd purchases (Tripod, WhoWhere, HotBot) have pushed Lycos to the No. 4 spot in the Web hit parade; it's the last portal prize left on the table