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They couldn't have a model that's smarter, snazzier or more moving, kinetically and emotionally, than Lasseter's Cars, which opens June 9. "I love having inanimate objects come to life," he says, ever the boy who can't stop tinkering and dreaming. All the characters are cars, but they're engagingly human. The lands they inhabit are richly detailed (thanks to years of research by Lasseter, co-director Joe Ranft and their team) and worlds apart: the NASCAR circuit, where autos and egos collide at 180 m.p.h., and a 1950s-ish town, keeping a sense of community...
...tolerant of Gehry?s ignorance as he is cheerful about admitting it. What we see a lot of are the feathery-light sketches - at first glance they look like gifted doodling - with which be begins his creative process. After that we follow him through sessions with the cardboard model-makers. He keeps looking for something he can?t quite explain, but which might be described as slightly transgressive - a shock to conventional expectations - but he?s not impatient, never in mastermind mode. He chuckles, tells little anecdotes, draw on past experience, but also looks for ways to transcend what...
...scissors chomp into the metalicized surface of the cardboard. Two or three snips later a rhomboid shape drops free. Fingers pick it up and start crimping and bending it, propping it against the toy-sized model building. Eventually, it is taped to the little construct (think of it as a three-dimensional sketch) and the architect, Frank Gehry, starts musing about what it does - and does not do - for his design. By and large, he seems, tentatively, to like its effect more than he dislikes it. For the moment, it stays...
...DIED. Jean-Fran?ois Revel, 82, witty, influential French philosopher and journalist who tweaked European intellectuals for their knee-jerk anti-Americanism; in Paris. His 1970 book Without Marx or Jesus argued that the U.S. model of multiparty democracy, not socialism, was the best way to achieve world peace. One of 40 members of the Acad?mie Fran?aise, which defends the standards of the French language, Revel recently disparaged his countrymen, declaring: "We French have had little to say against Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi ... [or] the imams of the Islamic Republic of Iran," instead saving their vitriol "for Ronald Reagan and George...
William C. Kirby released his last annual letter to colleagues on Friday—a 14,000-word missive that trumpets the growth of the Faculty, the construction of new buildings, and a proposed choice-based model of general education as the legacies of Kirby’s four-year tenure at the helm of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...