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I'm 150 feet down an illegal mine shaft in Ghana.
I hear voices talking, but mostly the shaft is this cacophony of men coughing, and stone being broken with primitive tools.
When my hand slips, I suddenly remember a miner I had met days before who had lost his grip and fell countless feet down that shaft.
These miners are enslaved in a mine shaft in another part of Ghana.
When they came out of the shaft, they were soaking wet from their own sweat.
On top of that, Manuru has tuberculosis, yet he's still forced to work day in and day out in that mine shaft.
Very quickly, they found that if you put cement in the bone of the patient before you put the metal shaft in, it actually lasted a lot longer, and most patients would never have to be re-operated on in their lifetime.
There was a huge pit or shaft called a moulin going 130 feet straight up to the surface of the glacier.
The shaft of light beaming through the oculus was both beautiful and palpable, and I realized for the first time that light could be designed.
This week, as any week you care to look at, you'll find people actually trying to kill each other from country to country, but even when that's not going on, there's competition between countries, each one trying to shaft the next.
I've got a bike chain rigged up as a cam shaft, with a computer driving it.
If you look at the way in which the circular shape joins with the vertical shaft, you'll notice that it tapers just every so slightly.
It's balancing on a shaft and a ball, right at the center of gravity, or just slightly above the center of gravity, which means that the lower half of the object is just a little bit more weighty.
By the way, there's a shaft of nerves that joins the two halves of the brain, called the corpus callosum.
Now it's very hard to see the Earth there, it's called the "Pale Blue Dot" picture, but Earth is suspended in that red shaft of light.
And specifically, it's looking at a blacksmith in Kibera in Nairobi, who is turning the shaft of a Landrover into a cold chisel.
For example, that a two-cylinder gas engine was used in a car with a single balancer shaft.
A group of friends receive word from a pal who has found gold in an old mind shaft nearby an ancient abandoned western town of Suttersville.
Despite warnings by the local sheriff, Murphy(John Phillip Law), Old Man Prichard(Richard Lynch)a bedraggled hick who swindles tourists with supposed collectible Wanted posters, and kooky superstitious Aunt Nelly(Karen Black)to stay out of the mine due to it's notorious legend(..that an evil coal miner who sold his soul to devil and murdered a priest's(Jeff Conaway)daughter will return from the dead to kill those who remove the gold from his shaft), these people only see the green, not the blood red which could potentially ooze from their slain bodies.
I reviewed the film Shaft this past summer and in it I said that Shaft was an okay film that I have seen a thousand times before.
Eva Mendes was better than i expected her to be as well, i thought there were moments in the movie where Will got the shaft, he was doing everything he could being a good guy and still getting treated bad.
Although it's a little slow to get going (too many lingering shots of blueprints hinder the pace in some of the early gags), once 'Beep Beep' arrives at the mine shaft sequence it's clear that Jones was beginning to get a real handle on these characters and the greater possibilities of what he could do with them.
Confusing mixture of racist comedy and racist violence (at times reaching a disturbing pitch, even for a fan of the genre) this movie isn't your Shaft in the park.
Towards the end, the movie began to remind me of 'Hollow Man' (complete with escape via elevator shaft), except with a Dragon, not a naked, invisible man.
At the same time, the kidnapped man (Mason) escapes through the elevator shaft.
The script is unusually well formed, and the adapter's additions, like the shaft of light that reveals Harriet to Emma in church, are all in keeping.
They said he fell down an elevator shaft.
Missions range from standard running-and-gunning to driving an SUV, driving an Aston Martin, driving a limousine that is wired to explode, commandeering two different types of tanks a la "GoldenEye", riding a motorcycle, flying a helicopter, repelling down a shaft guarded by laser tripwires, and free falling after a plummeting damsel.
I really did wonder how they would escape the elevator shaft, one of those great moments when you don't know whether to laugh or hide your eyes.
Major Gordon Ellis(Richard Jaeckel)comes up with a method that could be quite dangerous..someone could climb an elevator shaft 17oo feet which could open a door to the outside providing a chance for contacting help.
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