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Will IMAX be able to pull couch potatoes away from their plasma TVs? Polar Express's director, Robert Zemeckis, thinks so. "The one thing that IMAX delivers," he says, "you can't get in your home-theater system: this great big, beautiful image." Whether IMAX is the answer to Hollywood's troubles, though, may yet prove to be as ethereal as those magical 3-D snowflakes...
Throughout the book, Proulx does a matchless job of summing up the human comedy of a modern West in which the cowboys are apt to pull up stakes to go to UCLA film school. She also likes to traverse whole decades in the space of a paragraph or two, as though to say that from the long mineral perspective of the Western soil and sky, sizable stretches of the 20th century might very well slide by in parentheses. It's the kind of perspective that comes with...
...other bit of good news: you don't have to pull your free report from all three bureaus at once. So if you want to be truly vigilant about monitoring errors, you can spread your requests throughout the year. And the bureaus may even eventually iron out the lapses in their system that lead to mistakes in the first place...
...overweight or otherwise out-of-shape person is lucky enough to have mere prehypertension, the condition can often be controlled with diet and exercise. "If someone comes to me with prehypertension," says Bakris, "I pull out my pad and write a lifestyle prescription first...
...final act, “Memphis,” features jazzy piano and slinky ballerinas in jean skirts and bandannas. The feminine confidence and grace with which the dancers pull “Memphis” off is reminiscent of the similar group effort in “Giselle.” This striking similarity—despite the dichotomy between the two pieces—drives home the point that even when dressed down, ballet is by no means obsolete...