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...production designer performs) with the indelibility of the final print. The problem with computer technology, besides allowing these tin-britched anal retentives to bleach E.T. of any distressing theme, is that it diminishes the performative aspect of movies. In Sean Penn’s recent movie The Pledge, Robin Wright Penn was digitally given a gap tooth in post-production. Every move, every twitch, is perfectly calculated. No longer do actors interact with the special effects—they are the special effects...
Everybody dreams of flying. Leonardo da Vinci sketched dozens of prototypes for flying machines based on the anatomy of birds. The Wright brothers finally worked out the details four centuries later. Yet even in this age of space shuttles, supersonic jets and ultralight airplanes, the quest to build the perfect personal flying machine still lures the world's inventors...
...this season progressed, his faith has been restored. Against Dartmouth, it was a Blewett field goal that put Harvard ahead to stay in the third quarter. Wright, with his powerful leg, continues to impress on kick-offs. And against Penn last weekend, Kingston pinned the Quakers in back of its 20-yard line three times...
Murphy admits that earlier in his coaching career he might have considered a player as star-crossed as Blewett or Wright a lost cause. But times change...
...rather than take a couple shots at the endzone, Murphy elected to have Wright go for the field goal. The rookie kicker missed the 27-yard attempt and Harvard lost the game...