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...main consistency is that Redmayne grips as much as he repels. You want to grab his chin - Gordy is always in some sort of awkward motion - and hold him still so you can look into those clear, clean eyes of his and figure him out. Prasad directs to this unnerving fluidity; in the first scene in which we get a real sense of Gordy's character, he and Martine are talking in the backseat of the convertible as it whips along the highway and the wind tears the words out of their mouths. It seems Gordy needs the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yellow Handkerchief: An Oddly Enticing Road Trip | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

There were a lot of factors behind these two distinct survival profiles - the most significant being time. Most shipwrecks are comparatively slow-motion disasters, but there are varying degrees of slow. The Lusitania slipped below the waves a scant 18 min. after the German torpedo hit it. The Titanic stayed afloat for 2 hr. 40 min. - and human behavior differed accordingly. On the Lusitania, the authors of the new paper wrote, "the short-run flight impulse dominated behavior. On the slowly sinking Titanic, there was time for socially determined behavioral patterns to reemerge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Titanic vs. Lusitania: How People Behave in a Disaster | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...Faculty Meeting agenda, Mooney’s motion on a Biomedical Engineering concentration was listed as the second order of business...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Tunes Lighten Faculty Meeting | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...explains how animation focuses viewers’ attention on the process or concept at hand: “When you have a person holding up a test tube, viewers hone in on distractions. With an animation you can hone in on what’s important.” Motion is also a key component of animation. “Animation combines both motion and the passage of time, which is true of biological processes,” Lue says. “Being able to put together an animation sequence allows you to interrogate what is really happening...

Author: By Sally K. Scopa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scientific Animation Spurs Artistic Creation | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

Emanuel Levy’s book “Oscar Fever” traces the awards back to their inception. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, founded in 1927, was the brainchild of MGM’s eponymous Louis B. Mayer. Its first awards ceremony took place in 1929—the operative logic being that the best way to legitimize the fledging industry might be to host a highly publicized event in its honor...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Widescreen to Flatscreen: Televising the Oscars | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

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