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...tend to like our action movies to look real. So when a character flies into the clouds, sees a vision of the Buddha, and initiates a magical attack that causes a fifty-foot-wide imprint of his hand to crush his opponent, it’s difficult to take the movie seriously. Also, the fights are often slow and quiet, which throw off the American tendency to associate balls-to-the-wall action with lightspeed moves and witty banter...
Chen says that the Kronauer Space proved the perfect venue for realizing the play’s mood and Marrinan’s vision: “[‘Seduced’] fits with this setting; it is oppressive and closed like the space itself. Plus Tim [Marrinan] wanted to something in an intimate setting, and Kronauer is small and closed...
...first official meeting, which took place on the third floor of Emerson, was held with little concrete vision for the organization. “Popular? Not at all, there was no BMF,” says Bashir Salahuddin ’98, the group’s second president. “We had zero clout on campus, but that also meant there was no one telling us what...
...making the rest of the world feel its weight, maybe even a Europe that wouldn’t let the United States call all the shots. But the final draft, signed one year later by the heads of all 25 member states, seems meant for anything but a vision like that one. Instead, if it is allowed to take effect, it will gently wreck those high hopes for a counterweight of real significance to American supremacy...
...crew took turns being strapped into a so-called vestibular sled, which snapped them back and forth with the force of just over one G, about a third of what they had experienced during blast-off. While strapped down, they wore special helmets that blacked out their vision and flashed patterns of spots before their eyes in an effort to investigate how the body orients itself when signals to the eyes and inner ear are scrambled...