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...pressure to come up with an advertising campaign for a new pimple cream, hard-charging Dennis Bagley (Richard E. Grant) develops a nasty little boil on his neck. Ah, yes, a psychosomatic symptom, bound to happen to anyone with a conscience who is trying to sell patent medicine. The viewer settles back comfortably, prepared for some nice English silliness about a chap trying to muddle through a trying situation...
Looking into Pictures: The Viewer and the Viewed in Painting and Photography--MFA at 2:00 Monday...
...activity is a dramatic advance in computer technology. Over the years, computer scientists have devised an impressive array of mathematical techniques, or algorithms, for rendering 3-D images on a 2-D computer screen. Traditionally, these algorithms -- for drawing things in perspective, for example, removing surfaces hidden from the viewer's line of sight or painting finished objects with texture and shade -- have been encoded in programs and stored in computers as software. As such, they used up massive quantities of computer time. To draw a simple object ten times a second, the minimum needed to create the illusion...
...first few lines of the Currier House Drama Society's production of The Importance of Being Earnest are truly horrifying. As Lane (Todd Brun) and Algernon (John Goldstone) begin to converse in what are meant to be highly mannered British accents, insidious comparisons immediately flood the viewer's mind--specifically, endless repetitions of Monty Python, or, perhaps, that particularly ill-starred high-school rendition of My Fair Lady...
...lights come up at the House of Composers after a screening of The Puppy, director Alexander Grishin's new film about a young defender of perestroika who loses his battle to expose corruption. At least one viewer is disturbed by a final scene showing the body of the youth floating in factory waste water. "Why can't the film have a positive ending?" asks the decorated war veteran. "Everything is so negative today." He is interrupted by hoots of protest from the audience...