And since he studies 19th-century chronophotography —— sometimes called precinema or pre-cinematography —— for his day job as a professor of animation at London Metropolitan University, he knew where (and when) to begin looking for model machinery.

He dropped his bag of tools plonk in the middle of the table.

She's been in her room all day, working away at her computer.

Will the real Jimmy Carter please stand up? Is it the twice-born Baptist who can preach love and compassion with true fervor? Or is it the tough relentless office-seeker with a pious front of “religiosity?”