During the scans, the doctors asked them to imagine four short scenes involving imaginary people.

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Gaghan constructs short, bristling scenes that often end abruptly with nasty implications hanging in the air.

NEWYORKER: Syriana

The movie zips ahead, in short, spiky scenes punctuated by skillfully edited montages of digitized photographs and newspaper articles.

NEWYORKER: Double Dare

The movie jumps ahead in short, spiky scenes, punctuated by beautifully edited montages of digitized photographs and newspaper articles, and by Mara, head down in the wind, tearing through Sweden on a motorcycle like well, like a bat out of hell.

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It wasn't to be as we lost wickets at regular intervals, eventually falling some 27 runs short, but the scenes that followed were simply incredible and had to be seen to be believed.

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People in an fMRI scanner watched a half-hour-long sequence combining very short video clips of everyday scenes.

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Over an hour of all-new bonus material is featured on the Digital and Blu-ray Combo Pack, including deleted and alternate scenes, the theatrical short "Paperman, " plus much more.

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This short description was played out over three scenes, marking the first time I felt Game of Thrones was padded in any way.

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Photographers know that at very short exposures and even at the most sensitive setting for dark scenes, we will record barely any light.

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What was happening behind the scenes is that other computers were testing the strength of the market and if their masters were short and sitting on profits, they wanted to know if it was time to start covering positions and taking profits.

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