Word: willow
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...film image down into a complex numerical code that a computer can manipulate in nearly endless ways, thus altering the image. To change the T-1000 from a robot to its human form, ILM employed a process nicknamed Morph, as in metamorphosis, first developed in 1988 for the film Willow. Footage of the robot and footage of actor Robert Patrick were coded and fed into the computer, which blended one into the other. The illusion of walking through steel bars was created by another pioneering method that ILM technicians have dubbed "Make Sticky." Footage of Patrick walking unimpeded down...
...they leave, Julie tells Leversen, "All of our neighbors spoke highly of your grandfather," who founded the business back in 1953. Many of those neighbors worked at the nearby Fisher Body plant on Willow Springs Road, which shut down in 1988. They wouldn't think of buying anything but a GM car. Heather's tastes, though, are not swayed by chauvinism or family tradition. She wants something sporty and stylish...
Some of the new work is being done on old technology. "The old prosthesis was made of willow wood and was very heavy," says Kyle Scott, director of orthotics and prosthetics at the National Rehabilitation Hospital. "Now we're using polyesters and acrylic resins." Scott designed an artificial foot for Jeff Wycliffe, who had his left leg amputated just below the knee after a motorcycle accident three years ago. With the $7,000 Flex Foot, Wycliffe, 24, not only walks without a limp, but also jogs, bats and plays volleyball and tackle football. In some ways, his replacement foot seems...
Using their clubs as shovels, Harvard dug a grave on Thursday at Willow Bend Golf Course on Cape Cod that proved to be too deep to climb...
With the names of trees you can make a fine pagan bouquet of words: hornbeam, ginkgo, quickbeam, oak, white willow, tamarind, Lombardy poplar, false cypress, elder, laburnum, larch, baobab, black gum, rowan, hazel, whitebeam, tree of heaven...