The sanctity of our natural habitat — the movie theater — is disappearing amid the dynamite blasts of lighted phones while people text and tweet in the dark; the chain-saw buzz of disruptive conversation; and the slow erosion of common courtesy in communal spaces.
On October 31, guardian/film will be live-blogging the Saw After Dark All-nighter at the iMax.
On his right forearm, there is a long dark scar he got when he was eight, while cutting wood with a bow saw.
Her books look uncannily modern, with their stalkers, their dark switches of identity, the see-sawing between repulsion and attraction in their love-affairs and hate-affairs, their killer protagonists with whom the reader is persuaded to collude.
After making a U-turn and entering the driveway, the caregiver saw to tall males wearing dark hooded sweatshirts and black pants run from the east side of the garage, past her car and enter the sedan.
The P.A. began buzzing through the ribs on the left side with the electric saw, and immediately blood started seeping out, as dark and viscous as crankcase oil.
A 60-foot tree had toppled away from his house, toward a neighbor's, and he was out sawing branches, keeping warm before heading back into a dark, cold house.
If you're scared, close your eyes," said Yoshinori Shoji, president of the Gaibo Hogei whaling company, as one of the workers sawed off the whale's skin and fat, exposing the dark meat and entrails.
"So, in the dark, with flashlights, I had to chalk out the openings so that the saw-cutter could cut through the brick to create the windows," Mr. Casini said.
The walls are riveted steel, the wood booths and tables are dark and sleek, and on one wall a cutout square of plaster reveals brick, hung with rusty saw blades.
