Each candidate will meet with the executive committee this month, and the list will be pared to three.
The American version will be pared to eight hours and new American footage will be added.
The story of Salome has been given many treatments, but the one offered at this festival, June 17-22, is a bit different: Oscar Wilde's version of the story, augmented with dance and music, has been pared to five characters, and all will be played by one actress.
Its staff of 12,000 has been trimmed to 5,000 and its 33 factories are being pared to five.
So the four agencies were pared to two, he added, which are being asked "to go into another round".
The six original teams were pared to four, on merit, by a panel of professors including Noah Feldman '92, Larry Susskind, David Wilkins '80, Wendy Jacobs '81, Bordone, and Van Loo.
Three months later, the scene had been pared to eleven minutes, and the Watchers, in an intermediate state of realization, resembled crusty SpongeBobs.
Now, with dot-com hysteria as deflated as a football sat upon by Tony Siragusa of the Baltimore Ravens, the roster of Internet marketers has been pared to three, all Super Bowl veterans: the E*Trade Group, Hotjobs.com and the Monster.com division of TMP Worldwide.
Duke (31-4), led by the all-American guard Alana Beard, had won 22 consecutive games despite a roster that had been pared to eight players after Rometra Craig, the daughter of the former N.F.L. running back Roger Craig, and Crystal White transferred in December.
