"So much of David Bowie's work has involved characters, masks and disguises, both literal and metaphorical, " says Mr. Pegg.
Heck, it even comes supplied with something called an ending: The narrative is tied up, characters work through their problems, tears are shed, all that stuff.
Though users can play aspects of the game alone, it requires characters to work together in groups to overcome major challenges.
The strike began on June 24, when around 100 performers who dress up as Disney characters left work in an effort to force through a 7% pay rise.
"The Greeks were great storytellers and they have given us a colorful cast of characters to work with, " said Mark Showalter, Senior Research Scientist at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.
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In particular, fictional characters within a work are presumed to be simply ideas unless they are sufficiently developed to legally constitute elements of expression.
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There should be pleasure in the language alone, yet not so much indulgent glee in the sentence work that it robs the characters of their oxygen.
At its worst, the title can feel a bit grindy as players work on leveling up their characters and traversing through the same maps over and over.
For the first time, the brothers work with established actors and a decent budget, yet they hold to their earlier aesthetic, moving in close with a handheld camera, and staying close as characters try to work out their confusions.
There is in this three-part drama only the briefest glimpse of the characters performing their war work at Bletchley.
Once an old structure is brought back, artists get to work, painting murals of old characters and logos of McMenamins-brewed beers.
Allegri has had to work with a rotating cast of characters not by design, but largely because of injuries and inconsistent performances.
The reader follows Sarah's ghost as it visits her own corpse, her grieving sister and the still living characters who live or work in the hotel where she died.
Fugard is an enormously generous writer, and in Tsotsi, he gave the filmmakers a framework that lets them find what he always finds in his best work, hope and humanity in characters that society writes off as irredeemable.
Not only does their presence give Ms. Loos a wide-ranging cast of comic characters with which to work, but it makes the Jersey Mecca Cocktail Bar look full and feel festive, which is part of the point of the play.
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This axiomatic principle is easy to state but can be difficult to apply in the context of fictional characters because a properly copyrighted work does not mean every element of the work is protected.
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Lurking behind the stark, high-contrast black and white photography ... are the same sinister motivations that have driven all the characters in this master filmmaker's work.
The pace of the work, more leisurely than sluggish, allows the characters to clasp and hold our attention, to show as much bafflement as decisiveness, and to be brushed, rather than overwhelmed, by the major motions of history.
Most fan fiction is published on the Internet (see fanfiction.net), and it's usually preceded by disclaimers noting that the writer is using characters or settings from someone else's work.
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But a pint-size scroll about 12 inches tall, with elaborately styled Hebrew text, "can take a few more months of work, " he says, explaining how the smaller characters require a slower, more careful hand.
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What they used is a two way RFID chip, and they designed a reader, a really low cost wireless reader that would work with any device, and they created 32 unique characters that had these RFID chips in them.
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This humane perspective on flawed characters has also shaped Mr. Malick's subsequent work.
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With Kell on Earth, people have seen the fashion world in a lot of different ways and they've seen how PR works but they very rarely see the kind of access that we have and characters as unfiltered as Kelly Cutrone and the people who work for her.
The performers work in a legal gray area, without permission from the companies that control the characters.
This new work is equally spectacular, and Weir continues to revel in the probability that his characters will stumble into the surreal, or scavenge beyond the frontiers of the civilized.
The characters, including an engineer at a troubled computer-hardware firm, live in an Americanized work environment, yet certain emotions nearly lost to Americans, such as modesty and shame, still rule their lives.
Based as a way to work with GSM in the lowest-bandwidth footprint possible, it was quick and to the point in 160 characters and 128 bytes.
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In the end Mr Erard is happy simply to meet interesting characters, tell fascinating tales and round up the research without trying to judge which is the best work.
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