Someone get this young man wired, pronto!
Last year, he suffered from the meth nerves of a man wired to his BlackBerry; now he was engaged in the leisurely concerns of a literary man, warily anticipating the competition on Grub Street.
Afghan intelligence officials said today that they had thwarted an assassination attempt originally intended for President Hamid Karzai when they captured a man wired with explosives near the defense minister's house in Afghanistan's capital on Friday.
Mr. Hill then met with the man, wired the money to his bank account, and found the painting wrapped in brown paper and stowed in a plastic shopping bag that had been left at a bus stop in west London.
Now comes the part every novice loves, the foremost source of frustration with electronics, and the thing that will likely lead to the fall of man: wiring.
The men, wired with electrodes, appear to be playing a video game, although there are no joysticks to be seen.
Mr. Petit, a renowned high-wire artist and a subject of the documentary "Man on Wire," has given some wire-walking clinics over the years.
It goes, instead, to James Marsh's marvellous Man On Wire, about the French high-wire daredevil Philippe Petit.
I was watching, in fact, Man on Wire, James Marsh's film about Philippe Petit's high-wire walk, 34 years ago, between the Twin Towers.
The screening of Man On Wire, the story of Philippe Petit, the high-wire artist who walked a tightrope between the Twin Towers in 1974. is packed out.
