"Without safety pins, there could be no opera," she says, more or less describing the low-budget ingenuity that has kept the Amato Opera humming.
The fights are dramatized in a puppet show, an example of the kind of low-tech ingenuity perfectly fit for the Fringe.
The latest illustration of the low-tech ingenuity of Iraqi foes impervious to our latest cascade of high-tech missiles: a hapless, singed donkey that carted rockets to a Baghdad hotel.
If he seemed an apparition from the fringe, there were the attacks on embassies in Africa in 1998 and on the destroyer Cole in Yemen in 2000 to demonstrate his low-tech ingenuity, radiating out from the mud-brick huts of Afghanistan.
The premise of the film sounds like that of a particularly macabre Choose Your Own Adventure story -- an American Average Joe is trapped in a coffin somewhere in the Iraqi desert with nothing but a cell phone, a Zippo, and his cajones -- but with killer timing, buckets of low-fi ingenuity, and a stunning one-man show from Reynolds, Cortés is able to craft a riveting bonafide action movie.
This mixture of low costs and ingenuity has helped Indian firms expand their sales and acquire companies far beyond their borders.
"Just to subsidize people because the price is low -- that kills ingenuity," said Doug Schmidt, 45, struggling to make a go of cattle ranching on a small spread, near Ringgold.
Normal subjects and neurosurgical subjects with unilateral LMPFC lesions perform fairly well on tasks related to tactical strategy, showing correspondingly low scores on the ingenuity aspect of thinking.
The plucky company Fiasco, alighting at Theatre for a New Audience, does its high-ingenuity, low-frills thing, distributing the thirteen speaking roles (and one canine part) among six actors.
This combination of low labour costs and technical ingenuity is the secret of Univex's success.Start-ups are the engine of Poland's post-communist boom.
