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...cumbersome machine from the start and remained so for a century. To a generation that got its visual schooling in front of the small, teeming screens of PCs and PlayStation 2s, the old filmic quest to make movies seem like real life, only cooler, is as anachronistic as a telegram in the e-mail age. Now a generation of directors is moving from analog to digital. They want to make films that hit the delete button on reality--films whose highest aspiration is to be cartoons...
...November, McCarthy sent a telegram to Pusey demanding to know how the University would act on Furry’s case...
...sent a telegram to the Russian embassy in New York indicating the Lampoon would like to give its ibis for a replacement on the spire of the new University of Moscow as a ‘symbol of the universality of the search for truth,” recalls George S. Abrams ’54, then managing editor of The Crimson...
...wartime battles, I realized that it was not going to be easy, and I did not expect to come back alive. I wrote such to my sister in New York City--to get the mail before my parents and break the news gently to them when she received the telegram that I was no longer alive...
...ground. Mowaffaq Mahmoud al-Ani, Iraq's ex-Ambassador to China, has completed seven weeks of an armed occupation of Iraq's embassy in Beijing. According to Talal al-Khudairi, who has been tapped by Iraq's new Foreign Ministry to assume the ambassadorship, al-Ani received a telegram relieving him of his duties on June 6. Determined to ignore the order, al-Ani chained the doors of key embassy offices shut, armed himself and his wife with pistols, and-says al-Khudairi-warned colleagues that he would "put a bullet in the head of anyone who tried to defy...