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...banging two hammers on a table off screen to simulate the jolt of an incoming Pakistani artillery round, then walking across camera to pick up a mug of tea. After two hours of adjusting camera angles, lighting and backdrop, and several more heated talks with Bachchan, Akhtar called a wrap. A year later, the movie is finally out?and Akhtar has cut Bachchan entirely from the scene, the superstar eclipsed by a tin mug that jumps and spills with the whump of the shells. "Oh God, man, that cup of tea," groans Akhtar today. "Hours, man, hours...
...Ware is involved. Ware, the meticulous, aesthete creator of "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth," guest edited the hard covered book, taking over for regular "McSweeney's" editor Dave Eggers ("A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.") Ware's influence can be seen even before you tear off the shrink-wrap (an ironic touch given Ware's disdain for polybagged, untouchable collector's comics). The cover appears deconstructed. And it is, sort of. The dust jacket unfolds into a 29 x 21 3/4 inch, poster-size, full-color work about God, man and comic strips. The verso displays Gary Panter...
Both residents and Harvard officials agree that signing on the dotted line did not wrap up the issues in either Agassiz or Riverside, but only represented the beginning of more work to be done to implement the deals...
Renovations should wrap up in spring 2007, Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd wrote in an e-mail. While the building has just undergone minor repairs clocking in at around $100,000—with reupholstered seats, a more modern fire curtain and overhauled electric and drainage systems—major renovations, estimated to cost $25 million, have been postponed until the College finds a donor to finance the project...
...publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux; in New York City. An heir to the Guggenheim fortune, he teamed up with John Farrar to form one of America's most prestigious independent publishers, whose roster of celebrated authors included T.S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer and Isaac Bashevis Singer. "Newspapers wrap up fish," he once said. "Books are in the library forever...