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...think about backing up." Once again, I follow instructions, and soon I glide in reverse to where I started. With a twist of the wrist, I pirouette in place, and no matter which way I lean or how hard, Ginger refuses to let me fall over. What's going on here is all perfectly explicable--the machine is sensing and reacting to subtle shifts in my balance--but for the moment I am slack-jawed, baffled. It was Arthur C. Clarke who famously observed that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." By that standard, Ginger is advanced indeed...
...second disc is where the real treasure lies. In a unique twist on the now-standard inclusion of deleted scenes, Industrial Light and Magic—the team responsible for all of Lucas’ special effects—resurrected half-finished scenes and completed them especially for the DVD version. The “behind the scenes” documentary is fairly disappointing, comprised of bland behind the scenes footage and painfully earnest testimonials; thankfully, Ewan MacGregor breaks up the monotony by gushing over his chance to become Obi-Wan Kenobi. A 12-part documentary originally featured...
...Urinetown does have its own social conscience—near as I could tell its underlying point has something to do with over-consumption of resources and the unsustainable lifestyle of man. And yet, the show’s point isn’t quite the point. Every plot twist is an opportunity to mock a theatrical device or style of theater. Urinetown is possessed of such charm and generates such tremendous good will that even old jokes like the deliberate misunderstanding of idiomatic language seem fresh and welcome
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...Harvard’s first play from scrimmage after Alford’s defensive hold, Rose was intercepted by Yale free safety Barton Simmons. It was just another twist in a back-and-forth game, because when Yale’s offense stalled, Davis’ 42-yard field goal attempt was blocked by Balestracci at the line of scrimmage. Harvard had dodged another bullet...