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...coming. Computer graphics--CG, in industry shorthand--have already been used to create loosely rendered virtual stunt people suitable for brief action sequences. The buzz has it that James Cameron's forthcoming Titanic will represent a leap forward with its use of CG extras, detailed down to the misty breath they exhale in the cold night air, although one source who has seen completed footage from the film says the overall effect is less impressive as a visual than as a because-they-can declaration. Why not, when you've got a budget currently estimated at over $200 million...
...rest of the world held its breath yesterday as the space station temporarily lost the use of its primary and backup oxygen generators. Mir's crew swiftly fixed the problem, but Russian ground staff went home for the night without telling the Americans about it, touching off a brief panic at NASA early this morning...
Just for a moment the world held its breath, as Mir lost the use of both its primary and backup oxygen generators - in what might have proved a devastating malfunction for the disabled space station. Communications with Mir went down just as the crew reported the failure...
...works, Meyer repeats under his breath, over and over, "No biting, no biting, no biting..." The object of his mantra gapes below us--a foot-wide crescent studded with hundreds of razor-sharp, serrated, half-inch-long triangular teeth. This fish is only half-grown--an adult tiger shark can surpass 14 ft. in length--but it could easily take off a hand or an arm, or a chunk of torso you wouldn't want to try and live without...
GAVIN: B.A., Stanford University, 1952; actor in feature films, 1956-81, including Four Girls in Town, 1957; A Time to Love and a Time to Die, 1958; Imitation of Life, 1959; Psycho, Spartacus, Midnight Lace, A Breath of Scandal, 1960; Romanoff and Juliet, Tammy Tell Me True, 1961; Thoroughly Modern Millie, 1967; The Madwoman of Chaillot, 1969; Pussycat Pussycat I Love You, 1970; History of the World, Part I, 1981; special adviser to secretary-general...