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Eight were chained together by devices called "sleeping dragons," two-foot long lengths of PVC pipe covered with a thick layer of duct tape. Inside each tube was a bolt and chain which locked protesters' wrist together inside the pipe...
Kirila, 35, is the kind of guy who sleeps only because he's dog tired, and then he's likely to bolt out of bed and down to the office with a new idea about moving molecules. On business trips to Tokyo (Japanese firms were his biggest customers), he would get his distributor to arrange access for him to factories. He spent two nights prowling the catwalks above a Nissan Maxima assembly line, studying every human and robotic move below. Obsessed? He dragged his wife on a factory tour of China and Japan during their honeymoon...
...Richard's days may be numbered. Susan seems ready to bolt the bloc, Kelly looks up for grabs, and now that the island's females have caught a fish, they've turned on him. Only Sean's alphabet-voting method - which was very humane, sure, until it drew Richard's gang to Jenna like sharks to blood - saved Richard's blurry butt this time...
...comes with the territory. These films are not easy to make. Everybody knows when we go into it there will be physical things - tough stuff to go through like working in a tank with water cannons and the gimbal and the locking bolt and creating 100-foot wave effects. They know it's not easy stuff. I must tell you, I'm immensely impressed how all the actors were up to it. We had no real problems; I could do whatever I wanted to do with them. It was hard for them, yes, but they...
...Wills. "He has been my hero and favorite writer and thinker since college. I had been looking for the opportunity to write a short life." Gordon recalls Atlas' phone call asking her if she'd be interested in contributing a Penguin Lives volume: "It was as if a lightning bolt hit me. I said, 'Yes, I'd like to do Joan of Arc.' I've been really fascinated by her since I was a little girl." Although she was teaching at Barnard College and working on a novel, she does not begrudge the year and a half she spent...