The wire shot the flame up to the cauldron at Olympic Stadium.
For Mr. Ashmore, the frigid high-wire shoot must have been particularly grueling: as Ice Man in "X2: X-Men United," he probably learned never to underestimate the warm embrace of a studio — and the painlessness of computer-generated frost.
In 1859 the sun erupted, and on Earth wires shot off sparks that shocked telegraph operators and set their paper on fire.
He, too, touched the sewed-up lips of the hole, and she felt that she did not feel, and then felt the ghost of a thrill, like fine wires shooting out across her skin.
In a shadowy back room, past ancient turntables and gutted speakers with wires shooting out, are miles and miles of reel-to-reel tapes stacked floor to ceiling in 10-foot-high racks.
To avoid setting off the wires yourself, crouch as you walk to avoid wires shot at chest-level.
Simon's writing partner Ed Burns, a brilliant, arrogant former policeman whose surveillance operations inspired the titular wire, usually shot down his bad ideas and came up with good ones by the truck-load; but he was off working on the Iraq war mini-series Generation Kill.
When I arrived in March, the part of Samarra under American and commando control -- the City Hall and a Green Zone around it -- was a small parcel of land ringed with a phalanx of concrete barriers, barbed wire and shoot-to-kill lookouts.
My family was the last thing I was thinking about while hunkered down on stools in seedy bars and smoking crack on blocks where The Wire was shot.
He points by way of evidence to a recent item posted to The Shooting Wire, an online sport shooting industry Web site.
When killing is merely a matter of pushing a button or connecting wires or shooting off canisters of gas, how do we connect our humdrum actions to their cost?
