Grey-clothed eminences drift back to class after lunch, leaving the college rector, Christopher Frayling, enthusing about finding, near Almeria in Spain, not just the foundations of the bridge dynamited in Sergio Leone's Duck, You Sucker, a spaghetti western now known only unto true devotees, but gun emplacements dug for its stars, James Coburn and Rod Steiger.
If the first two episodes are any indication, "Flashpoint" will keep digging for its tension in crimes born of perverse love, the murders and attempted murders meant to remind the SWAT team that criminals are human, and their children might even hug them, and we'd all be better off loving the ones we're with.
This is where a cadre of heavily armed, rightwing militia has dug in for its declared war against Washington.
He dug for hours, five feet down.
"We dug for 17 nights," he said.
It's a violence that loomed beneath the surface of Swanberg's previous film, "Digging for Fire," and its presence, both there and in "Win It All," is of major symbolic significance.
(Joe Swanberg's "Digging for Fire," with its pile of receipts to file, and Andrew Bujalski's "Results," about romance and finance behind the scenes of a gym, dramatize these anxieties as well).
All over Greek Macedonia, streets, schools and airports have been hastily renamed, while archaeologists, having all but ignored ancient Macedonia until relatively recently, are digging furiously for its traces.
Silicon Valley doesn't always like what it sees about this kind of tech company: In the tech world, Rocket is the subject of many digs for its style of business, which involves cloning Internet ideas and scaling them and sometimes, retreating quickly when an idea doesn't work out.
In 2008, he spent several months burrowing into its rugged, bedeviled wilderness, digging for myth.
