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Long, fine fibers can wrap around one another better than shorter, less fine fibers, which means those long, fine fibers make stronger threads that hang together better as fabric.
I'm just an ad man ... ... but it strikes me as a slightly unimaginative way of improving a train journey merely to make it shorter.
The Bonobo, although shorter than us and their arms still longer, is more upright, just as we are.
We, the adults of the last four generations, have blessed our children with the destiny of a shorter lifespan than their own parents.
Now, this makes people crazy because it means that you have to talk about some groups having more sexual partners in shorter spaces of time than other groups, and that's considered stigmatizing.
And suddenly, queues became shorter.
They get a little shorter at 9 a.m.
You get to see what it's like to be on the shorter end of the spectrum."
And so half of the people in our study used a shorter robot, half of the people in our study used a taller robot and we actually found that the exact same person who has the exact same body and says the exact same things as someone, is more persuasive and perceived as being more credible if they're in a taller robot form.
We also build empathy for others in terms of being shorter, taller, faster, slower, and maybe even armless, which is kind of neat.
Monkeys are shorter, so it's a little short.
The other problem that people have is, they like to condense their stories of innovation down to shorter time frames.
It's essentially the same childishness as in the other two pictures, although I consider it preferable to the others because it's shorter.
It's also significantly shorter than it claims (at only 80 minutes), but I'm not complaining.
If all the camera zooms on still shots, and scans of walls were taken out, it would have been much shorter.
If you want to see a parody of reality tv, watch Celebrity DeathMatch - it's funnier and wittier, and most importantly shorter.
And as disappointing as this film was I'm glad the running time was that short, if not shorter.
The very complex plot involves a handful of delinquents who are sent to clean up a rundown hotel for a shorter jail sentence.
A much shorter list would be what they got right.
Thed last movie the clown came in about 15 minutes in, this one's shorter and the clown doesn't even come in until 40 minutes in, and it's only 65 minutes long!!!
This COULD be due to the fact that the pacing of the project is way too rushed(as noted in previous postings)- this film clocks in 45 minutes shorter than the film version- the difference owing to the pauses for dramatic effect, which apparently is necessary to propagate the appropriate MOOD for the story.
I can't imagine that made a difference, except for making the whole thing blessedly shorter!
A shorter film may have held the tension a little more, and a more charismatic lead may not have mangled his lines so much.
While I did enjoy the brief glimpses into the training sessions of Deena Kastor, the brief history of the Boston marathon and marathoning in general, let me emphasize: These were brief!! Watching some Joe Runners prepare for a Saturday run with their water bottles and talking about how they view the marathon is not inspiring, and the nonstop clichés about achievement and feel-good grinning runners will make you wish the film were about an hour shorter.
Many useless minutes wasted just listening to characters jabber on about something irrelevant to the plot, AND/OR something that could said in a shorter amount of time.
This cable-made movie is short on inspiration (beginning with the casting) and shorter on surprises.
We have in this several longer vignettes interspliced with some shorter segues.
I do believe some of the scenes could (should) have been longer (and maybe some shorter).
The pace never lets up, especially in the shorter US version, which tightens things up considerably.
When it is, I for one would like both versions--the longer and shorter, director's cut.
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