To obtain meaning in one's life, one ought to pursue the former actions and avoid the latter ones.
Such attempts are not only objectionable but futile, because the meanings of actions are constantly being subverted by other actions that, in changing the context of the former actions, changes their meanings.
The former action bowlers agree on another point: those times would be impossible to replicate today.
This was consistent with the interpretation that the former action surprised them; they expected the ball to approach the helper.
Hagedorn sees the Philippines as a soap opera, and the metaphor is right (until recently, the country's President was the former action-movie hero Joseph Estrada).
And if the tales of the former action bowler Jim Byrnes are to be believed, the names might have been funny, but some of the situations they faced were not.
Bradley points to a September 5th KABC-TV interview in which the former action superstar, as Bradley likes to call him, says, To me, what we have in place right now works.
An outspoken conservative Christian, the former action star has been a controversial figure in Hollywood since he wrote, produced and directed "The Passion of the Christ" in 2004, a gory depiction of the crucifixion that is one of the highest grossing films of all times.
After introducing Gibson, Gervais made sure to ask an important question of the former action star: "What the fuck does 'sugar tits' even mean?" Gervais was, to his credit, eminently more watchable than most of the stars whom the evening was ostensibly celebrating.
And on 27 February this year, the former action movie hero declared a full-blown, state-wide state of emergency to deal with the current water shortage: California is currently suffering its third consecutive year of drought (2008 delivered the driest spring and summer on record).
From his early days in Toronto to these waning days with the Mets, teammates and coaches have often referred to him as MacGyver, the title character from the former action-adventure television series, who slipped out of every conceivable jam using little more than his wits.
