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...where her parents taught school, and then of the near-in Essex suburbs, Rendell has maintained at least a weekend residence in the region for decades, and settled there a few years ago. "People like to think they rise above class," she says, "but it is a very important element in their lives, and it is much more open out here." She and her husband, whom she married in 1952, divorced in 1975 and remarried in 1977, have thrown themselves into local affairs and avidly tout the region's cultural institutions. Rendell has steeped herself in local tradition and, according...
...Wagnerian sound. Clean and elegant, Rosenthal's interpretation reflects an approach one does not usually associate with Wagner. "Some people will be surprised," he says, "but the Ring is lots of fun." In a production that compels rethinking Wagner's monument, the casting of Rosenthal is the most daring element...
...began producing its first personal computer in 1981, it designed the machine around two widely available components, the Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS DOS) and the Intel 8088 microprocessor chip. Reason: IBM wanted to use standard equipment so that software companies would write programs for its computer. The only element of the PC that IBM copyrighted was the integrated circuit called the Basic Input Output System (BIOS), which controlled how the software interacted with the hardware. But by building circuits that simulated the BIOS, enterprising computer jocks created machines that could legally run the same software as IBM's machine...
...objects are inserted into the action of the film by means of the blue-screen process. The figure is photographed against a blue background and then combined in an optical printer with the scene into which it will be placed. This procedure must be repeated each time a new element is added to the scene. The pastry creatures that came to life in Young Sherlock Holmes, for example, were hand-manipulated rod puppets, each shot individually and added one by one in as many as twelve layers. For a brief shot of a space battle in Return of the Jedi...
Gardner, a documentary filmmaker, said that the film made him feel "a sort of sorrow or grief," and asked, "What is it about some element of a film like this that is capable of so moving us as to make...