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...plan to handle this in a low-key, common-sensical fashion,” Butler said. “The vast majority of our classes and sections...will be taught...
...think it’s so sad that the vast majority of Harvard students will go into a very lucrative profession, do a little bit of community service on the side to feel better about their lives, do nothing to change the underlying structures that have produced them,” he says. “They’ll, you know, live in a beautiful suburb where they never have to confront homelessness and poverty, and all end up in the same retirement home where they’ll play golf until they...
...Forced to live in near squalor on a railway carriage while assigned as a roving inspector, he stubbornly devotes all his energies to developing a talking motion picture. Although he is an untrained amateur, there are glints of genius in him. The play deftly balances his private quest against vast social change, and culminates in an agonizing exile from a homeland that has already ceased to exist. Alan Howard plays the inventor, Gemma Jones (PBS's Duchess of Duke Street) his wife, and Jenny Agutter their servant. If plans work for bringing the show to Broadway, they ought...
...tallest volcano is three times as high as Mount Everest, and its great rift valley plunges to over four times the depth of the Grand Canyon. Global dust storms with winds up to 300 m.p.h. sometimes obscure its arid surface, which is pocked with vast gulches and deltas apparently left by ancient rivers. And maybe, just maybe, its stones bear fossils of primitive creatures that vanished billions of years ago with the waters that gave them life...
...whole process consumes vast quantities of computer time. One minute of film may involve as many as 100 billion calculations, driving the costs of TV commercials as high as $4,000 per sec. But conventional filmmaking techniques can be even more expensive. Using a Cray X-MP supercomputer and the latest graphics technology, the special-effects team at Digital Productions was able to create the battling spaceships in the film The Last Starfighter for $4 million. To produce the same scenes with scale-model miniatures would have cost $12 million to $24 million...