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...sure, "a lot of trailers still fall into a very formulaic voice-of-God technique, saying 'In a world of terror and chaos comes a hero,'" says Jim Ward, Lucasfilm's vice president of marketing. "But there's a lot of progress. People are pushing the envelope." They have to. Audiences, particularly those reared on video games, want their trailers to be like their movies: fast and furious. "We're able to take a movie that has hardly any camera movement and speed it up to appeal to a younger audience," says David Schneiderman, a partner in Seismic Productions...
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven, Henry Ward Beecher once observed, which may be as good an explanation as any for why a woman facing death would go to any length to bear a child. And what greater gift could she give than the gift of a healthy life--even if she might not be there to share...
After 20 years of nonstop growth, the furniture industry is on a downhill slide. According to the American Furniture Manufacturers Association, shipments dropped 10% last year, to $23 billion. Chains such as Montgomery Ward, Heilig-Meyers and Sears Homelife went bust, flooding the market with discounted furniture. "It was as bad an industry downturn as we've experienced in our careers," says Joel Havard, vice president of equity research at BB&T Capital Markets. Amid that wreckage, Mitchell Gold is opening its very first store, a self-contained shop at ABC Carpet & Home, the upscale New York City clearinghouse...
University of California Regent Ward Connerly and Harvard Law School Professor Christopher Edley squared off in a heated debate about affirmative action last night at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum...
...certainly don’t buy into a lot of things Ward Connerly was premising his arguments on,” said Charles M.G. Moore ’04, who is vice-president of the Black Men’s Forum...