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...assignment: Write a show about plane-crash castaways on a desert island. The parallel to a certain CBS series was obvious. If Survivor was Gilligan's Island with real people, Lost would be Survivor with fake people. But Abrams, who had raised the spy serial to new heights of cliff-hanging absurdity with Alias, knew that the series would need something extra, something weird, to sustain the audience's interest...
...longer you stay up, the more your condition deteriorates. "By the second night, oh, my goodness, it's extremely dramatic--beyond double what it was the first night," says David Dinges, a sleep expert at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. "You fall massively off the cliff...
...When you read something in academic prose it’s like the script of a film,” he says. “Fiction increases the impact of the words. Some words that would be cool and passionless appear different when set on the edge of a cliff or in the middle of a storm. It allows you to generate tension and passion...
Heller remembers a time when she and Tusk were on an arts retreat and, out of nowhere, Tusk announced he was going to go “speak with the elements.” He left the group, approached the edge of a cliff and began waving his cane...
Heading into Cambridge, the Pride was also coming off a key victory over then-second-ranked Lehigh on Nov. 28 and third place finish at the Cliff Keen Invitational...