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...afterlife. In a presentation scene, Djehutynakt sits before a crowd of gifts, including jars, birds with interlocking heads, gazelle-like creatures, and even an eviscerated ox. The painting is sophisticated—the governors’ legs are colored in two different shades of red to create foreground and background—and the detail is impressive...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Looking A‘head’ to the Egyptian Afterlife | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...Plowing the Dark” or artificial intelligence in 1995’s “Galatea 2.2.” He succeeds again in “Generosity,” his tenth novel, this time in bringing contemporary science into the dramatic foreground by exploring the world of genetic enhancement. “Generosity” follows the lives of an unusually jubilant Algerian refugee, Thassa Amzwar, and her creative nonfiction instructor, Russell Stone, as they and the rest of America respond to Kurton’s announcement. The scientist’s latest initiative has discovered...

Author: By Adam L. Palay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Acclaimed Novelist Powers Perfects His Aesthetic | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...title is a play on District Six, a vibrant mixed-race area of Cape Town that was declared whites-only in 1966, after which 60,000 of its residents were forcibly removed.) In his 2005 rough draft for District 9, the short film Alive in Joburg, Blomkamp didn't foreground the political elements. But while writing the feature script with Terri Tatchell, he became aware "that all these very serious topics about racism and xenophobia and segregation would start to shine through the science-fiction-esque veneer," he says. "I had to be very careful that I didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: District 9: The Summer's Coolest Fantasy Film | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...given his previous findings on the issue, his hunch is that television probably isn't the ideal medium for promoting real interaction between parent and child. If it were, he argues, then the net effect of having the TV on, whether in the foreground or in the background as noise, would have been richer and would have led to more sustained exchanges and conversations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: TV May Inhibit Babies' Language Development | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...image of the White House war room--the set for a scene in which the President (voiced by Stephen Colbert) meets with his staff to discuss an alien invasion. The camera let the director precisely manage the z-axis and decide which elements in the background, midground and foreground needed to be lit and focused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are 3-D Movies Ready for Their Closeup? | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

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