Word: woodenness
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...Chor Joo is concerned, they already have. The 30-year-old Malaysian fisherman was on his usual night run for shrimp and squid a few kilometers off the western coast of peninsular Malaysia in June when his 9-m wooden vessel was approached by a rifle-toting group he assumed were policemen. "They fired some shots in the air and told me to get on their boat. They were young, about 25 years old, and grim-faced, looking like some gang from a movie, some of them wearing bandanas around their heads, all carrying rifles and a few with grenade...
...village of Kuala Sepetang, which is about 200 km north of Kuala Lumpur. "This is the first time one of our fishermen was taken," says local politician Chua Tiong San. "It's like having a baby snatched from the front room of your house." Chua surveys the scores of wooden boats bobbing on the murky green waters of the Sepetang River. "Now the whole town is too scared to go out to sea," he says sadly. "Look at all the boats tied up when they would normally be working. We are at the mercy of the pirates." So, it seems...
...media that "my main dream in life was to break out of poverty." What he often fails to mention in his Horatio Alger?style tale is that he spent almost four years in jail as a teenager for robbery and assault, though the charges were later reversed. Genial but wooden tongued, more fluent in Russian than Ukrainian, Yanukovych is reminiscent of a Soviet-era party boss, an image aided by his almost 2 m, 109-kg frame. That style goes down well in his conservative home base in the Donbass, Ukraine's industrial powerhouse, where the Russian-leaning (and -speaking...
...bracelets didn’t stop underage drinkers from obtaining alcohol at any of dozens of student group booths, and despite the Council taxation, HoCos still found ways to be creative: Lowell House poured sand and set up a beach, and Mather House built a wooden U-Haul...
...motion-capture animation, which turns real actors into the virtual variety, is less likable. They are as wooden as Snow White's prince. And just because it is now possible to count every hair on their heads doesn't mean we want to. But look, it's not art. It's a head trip. You could argue, in fact, that the IMAX Polar Express returns movies to their most primitive beginnings, when the simple act of realistically capturing motion on a screen--narrative subtlety be damned--was sufficient to thrill, enchant and totally involve an audience. By that crude standard...