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...Live view is very useful for all sorts of out-of-the-ordinary shooting. When I was testing it using an Olympus macro lens, I could manually focus the camera without craning my neck out of whack. In a crowd of people, I adjusted the articulating LCD to point downward, then held the camera aloft to take overhead shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympus Evolt E-330 Digital SLR Camera | 2/22/2006 | See Source »

...situation in Iraq is too grim to let this metaphor linger. Jon Macks, a former political consultant who is now a writer for NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno told TIME by e-mail: "Yeah it?s a 9 out of 10, this is a Tonya Harding type whack on the knee story. I don't know yet what we'll be doing but it's like a drunk airline pilot-story where the plane lands safely-people in danger at end, no one killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Cheney's Mishap a Laughing Matter? | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

...team officials who have been the receivers of those thoughts, the 60 Minutes fiasco may have been a long-awaited opportunity to whack the puppy with the paper. "Talented people are a challenge, and what makes some people great is that they require a lot," says Bill Marolt, president of the USSA. (Translation: This guy drives me batty.) "Hopefully this has created something positive, not just with Bode but with the whole team." For years Miller has challenged USSA brass about coaching, training and conditioning methods, equipment and what he considers insufficient support for his ideas. "They are not totally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebel on the Edge | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

...pristine computer-generated voice. But when the camera transitioned to Hilary, I was horrified. Gone was the nondescript blonde of “So Yesterday.” She has become believable as a cinematic illustration of the dangers of cocaine and she’s toting totally whack hipster outfits.The new Hilary and her baby-giraffe thighs parade through the second section of the video in said outfits with a clear microphone in her hand, shaking her head in a woefully uncoordinated manner.She then sits in a see-through chair (wearing a powder blue headband) while the silhouettes...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, Henry M. Cowles, and Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pop Screen | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

...imagine amid the dilapidated piazzas and alleyways of Plati, a small town perched in the jagged hillside above Locri. The municipality of 4,000 is considered one of the clan's main strongholds. From here, the bosses orchestrate their international drug ring and send hit men out to whack rivals down in the flatlands of Calabria and beyond. Three years ago, local police discovered that town funds had been used to construct an intricate system of escape hatches leading from the center of town through the underground sewage system to help wanted men flee the authorities. After pointing out several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Comes To Locri | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

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