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...pocket) and $1,200 in unpaid hotel bills. Suddenly a dragon of a hotel inspector is breathing fire down everyone's neck. Fortuitously, a backer appears. At one of many crucial and hilarious moments, Miller, with no ink in his pen, frantically tries to pierce his wrist and draw blood so that the angel can sign the contract. From then on, Miller merely sweats blood through one farcical contretemps after another until his production finally becomes a smash...
...such idea film that Eames presented in 1968 to ameeting of America's top physicists, sketches a linear zoom to the farthest known point in the galaxies down to the nucleus of a carbon atom. What makes the film almost surreal at times is the starting point- the wrist of a man lying on Miami Beach- and the narrator, a serious female voice. Yet, whether physicist or child, one gets a feeling for the dimensions of time and space...
...Three things bother Wilcox about filling in: 1) the time commitment, 2) not being ready, and 3) playing ahead of Landry, who has been participating all season. "The second Brian can turn his wrist one degree, I'm getting out of that cage," he said Thursday...
...Gonzalez cousins, both members of the Crimson squash team, handle paddles with an equally light touch. "My experience on the squash team helps my touch in this game. Unlike tennis, ping pong is all in the wrist," Jaime explained yesterday...
...hand, chop it in the middle with your machete, snip off the leaves at the top, then bend down and separate the lower half of the cane (where the plant is thickest and there's the most sugar) from the soft earth with a few short flicks of the wrist. Make sure your machete is free of dirt and go to the next stalk...