Films like Cycles are far from mainstream, but as influential companies like Disney and Pixar continue to experiment in this space, the distant future of widespread VR cinema may be finally approaching.
I'm sorry about that, but perhaps we're not as influential as we like to think for a hardy band of internet-based crusaders.
The company's CEO, the late John Sperling, also joined other for-profit colleges in lobbying the Obama Administration and Congress relentlessly to block new accountability rules -- and part of that effort including leasing influential Washington friends like, as now appears to have been confirmed, Melanie Sloan, the head of the ethics watchdog group CREW.
Although the AARP, American Medical Association, and the AFL-CIO are among the powerful groups that supported the House bill, its opponents included organizations just as influential, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and America's Health Insurance Plans.
Saeb Erekat, the Palestine Liberation Organisation's chief negotiator, suggested the British envoy was not as influential as he liked to suggest.
Bricks and Mortals leaves you with the sense that architects are not as influential as they might like to be, or think they are.
It is true that some people in the Pentagon, as well as influential organizations like the American Enterprise Institute and the Project for the New American Century, have close relations with the Likud Party, and especially with Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is much more in tune with American neoconservatism than Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is.
This template, in one way or another, has guided hack reviewers as well as influential critics like Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris.
In some areas we haven't been quite as influential as we might have liked, but we've kept trying all along".
