What makes "Utopia" and Stoppard's other great plays — "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" (1966); "The Real Thing" (1982); "The Invention of Love" (1997) — work, despite their sometimes distracting flights of fancy, is that they are, essentially, tragedies, or, that awful word, "tragicomedies".
The unusual attitudes because builder pilots often get distracted in flight monkeying with some gadget that they installed when they forget to fly the plane and get into an unusual attitude.
By doing these new tests, we could finally squash the unrealistic fears that some people harbor that an e-reader could play havoc with a plane's avionics, which could distract the flight crew or do worse.
All it will take is for him to be distracted at one flight of hurdles and down he will go, taking all that money with him.
If passengers aboard all airline flights were issued these puzzles of logic, most, like my husband, would become so involved that they could easily be distracted from delayed flights, security inconveniences, turbulence and possible late destination arrivals.
Perhaps deliberately, this distracted attention from the flight of Vladimiro Montesinos, Mr Fujimori's notorious intelligence chief.That Mr Humala has not, so far, swept all before him is proof that some Peruvians do think things have improved.
Partly because the screen is too bright but mostly because you will get distracted by games like Flight Control.
The Lost Boys might have been distracted earlier in the flight, but once they were nearing Minneapolis, they must have became painfully aware.
The company also said a medical zone intercom system would allow for the cabin and cockpit to be split into isolated zones, meaning medical teams could work on a patient without the flight crew being distracted.
Beware of the dangers of becoming distracted by electronic displays during flight and be vigilant in looking for and avoiding other aircraft.
