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Your article on the switch from hand-drawn to computer-generated [CG] animation at Disney [Sept. 26] mentioned me and my colleague Andreas Deja as "respected animators ... [who] resisted making the switch to CG." I won't speak for Andreas, but in my case, that statement just isn't true...
Charming British accent? Check. Tuxedo-ready shoulders? Check. Minimal prior blockbuster experience? Check. Liverpudlian DANIEL CRAIG, 37, possessed all the prerequisites to collect the next license to kill from the producers of the James Bond films last week. He also brings one novel quality to the $4 billion franchise: a...
...species, according to Lieberman. One is that the specimens are of a “pygmy human and not a new species,” he said. The other is that the remains are of “a human who suffered a form of microcephaly, a pathological condition characterized by an abnormally small brain and head, and which may also cause dwarfism.” The chair of Yale’s Anthropology Department, Andrew Hill, expressed professional approval of the hypothesis of a new species. “I’m sure...
Lincoln’s contemporaries, Shenk says, saw melancholy as a temperamental style, as part of someone’s character. Those afflicted by melancholy might have been more prone to nervous states or debilitating disease. But melancholy was part of a spectrum.
But despite the focus on Lincoln’s depression, particularly in the discussion of his life before the presidency, Shenk’s book becomes more about Lincoln’s admirable character traits than his mental illness. Shenk’s eloquent explications of Lincoln’s...