He is in the clubhouse of a secret society of high-stakes gamblers who bet on an elaborate variation of Russian roulette, in which numbered players stand in a circle with loaded guns pointed at their neighbors' heads and shoot on command.
She is one in a legion that navigates the entertainment industry's lower rungs, racing to auditions, writing scripts, nursing rejections, compiling demo reels, uploading editing software and knowing that a non-union commercial will pay extras about $150 a day but a union shoot will command $366 and up to $732 on weekends.
Even if the Ivans had shot on command or out of habit, we would not have shot back.
There was also the freakish incident in Kuwait, when a soldier turned on his comrades, throwing grenades and shooting into command tents, killing two people.
Just after the 2 40 a.m. shooting, the command center had ordered the city's ambulance service to be prepared for casualties, the service's chief doctor, Igor S. Elkis, said in an interview.
This moment does feel different, though, largely because the teen-age survivors of the Parkland shooting have commanded the national stage with their raw and righteous indignation.
In an interview in April 2013, Rita Demirchyan, the widow of Karen Demirchyan, suggested that the shooting was commanded from outside of Armenia and that it was not an attempt of a coup, but rather an assassination.
The levity doesn't last, however, because we learn that the invaders, riled by the resistance, have been issued a fresh command: shoot to kill.
Haus inventions include the cigarette-encrusted shades from the Telephone promo, a metallic brassiere designed to shoot flames on command, the Grammy egg and, of course, the meat dress.
"Just shoot it, Ben," commanded the assistant Kurtis Townsend, who was standing behind McLemore.
