The hero, Nick Haflinger, is a runaway from Tarnover, a government program intended to find, educate and indoctrinate highly gifted children to further the interests of the state in a future where quantitative analysis backed by the tacit threat of coercion has replaced overt military and economic power as the deciding factor in international competition.

Bedrock Records is an English record label for trance, house and techno started by Nick Muir and John Digweed.

Bassist Nick Seymour ( ex-Plays with Marionettes, Bang, The Horla ) is the younger brother of singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Seymour of the now defunct Australian rock group Hunters & Collectors.

Bassist Nick Seymour, who is also an artist, designed or co-designed all of the band's album covers and interior artwork.

It is then revealed that Captain America, Nick Fury, and Black Widow are the only ones who know that Bucky actually survived the fight with Skadi as Bucky resumes his identity as Winter Soldier.

* Griffin and Sabine by artist Nick Bantock is a love story written as a series of hand painted postcards and letters.

In the 1976 article " Computer Power and Human Reason ," an excerpt of which is included in The New Media Reader edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, Weizenbaum notes how quickly and deeply people became emotionally involved with the computer program, taking offence when he asked to view the transcripts, saying it was an invasion of their privacy, even asking him to leave the room while they were working with the DOCTOR script.

The current John Bardeen Professor is Nick Holonyak, Bardeen's first doctoral student and protege.

* 2004 – American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamic militants.

His works are sometimes even said to have contributed to the modern negative connotations of the words politics and politician, and it is sometimes thought that it is because of him that Old Nick became an English term for the Devil and the adjective Machiavellian became a pejorative term describing someone who aims to deceive and manipulate others for personal advantage.

* In The Gone-Away World, a novel by Nick Harkaway, Earth is devastated in a war fought with " Go-Away Bombs "— weapons which erase the information content of matter, causing it to disappear from reality.

In contrast to contemporaries such as Lester Bangs, Ian Penman and Nick Tosches, whose music writings are marked by idiosyncratic, self-referential and highly personal styles, Guralnick's writing is characterized by a colloquial approach that is clean and understated by comparison.

A famous example of this type of retcon is the television show The Simpsons and Marvel Comics ' characters Nick Fury and The Punisher.

Another individual who found fame in clay animation is Nick Park, who created the characters Wallace and Gromit.

One notable spy series is The Baroness, featuring a sexy female superspy, with the novels being more action-oriented, in the mold of Nick Carter-Killmaster.

However Nick collapses completely when told that a representative from Tarnover is coming to meet him at G2S.

The Hearing Aid worm is designed to scramble network traffic if attacked, but Nick realizes that it could be destroyed if the authorities were prepared for the effects and ready to recover from them.

The precipitating event in this case is Kate's abduction by government agents, who bring her to Tarnover for further questioning and to threaten Nick.

Warned by Hearing Aid, Nick is able to penetrate the military computers and manufacture a counter-order to stop the plane just before it reaches the town.

* Ralph C. Hartz is the Deputy Director of the Bureau of Data Processing, and the man to whom Paul Freeman reports his progress on interrogating Nick.

When Nick, with Paul's help, escapes with even more powerful codes than before, he is ruthlessly cast aside, not least because his superiors refuse to accept that the new codes must be disabled so soon after replacing the old ones.

Besides the two Hearing Aid tapeworms, and Nick's ultimate tapeworm, there is a " denunciation tapeworm " created as revenge by a representative of " Anti-Trauma Inc ." whom Nick insults and curses.

At the same instant, Nick hit the barrel and threw himself upon the smaller man.

Philadelphia Eagles assistant Nick Skorich and a man with Minnesota ties who was working in the CFL, Bud Grant, were also candidates until a different Eagle, quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, was hired on January 18, 1961.

He also appeared in a 2000 episode of the TV detective series Rebus alongside John Hannah and, in 2003, appeared as the old gay man " Old Nick " in 9 Dead Gay Guys.

Michael is the no-nonsense, serious but unassuming leader, Steven the loving, near-groom, pecked at by his mother for not wearing a scarf with his tuxedo and Nick is the quiet, introspective man who loves hunting because, " I like the trees ... you know ... the way the trees are ..." The recurring theme of " one shot ", which is how Michael prefers to take down a deer, is introduced.

Nick angrily retreats back to the hotel followed by Sylvia who feels embarrassed over being fooled by yet another man.

" I was disappointed ... My oldest brother Dave, showed me some chords ... But if I were to pinpoint one turning point ... when I was in sixth or seventh grade, I met a man named Nick who worked an electronics store in California, where my family lived for awhile.

Robin is portrayed by Nick Lang in Holy Musical B @ man !.

Longtime Mad editor Nick Meglin called Gaines a " living contradiction " in 2011, saying, " He was singularly the cheapest man in the world, and the most generous.

Nick Nolte is taller than Robert De Niro, but for the movie Nolte lost weight and De Niro developed muscles until De Niro appeared to be the stronger man.

In 2004, in an execution video of Nick Berg being beheaded in Iraq, as one man sawed off Berg's head the other captors shouted: " Allahu Akbar !".

At the request of the music television channel VH1, documentarian Nick Read was given access to the sessions ; his cameras documented a man who retained his mordant sense of humor, even as his health was deteriorating over time.

The original Creature Comforts short film was five minutes long and was conceived and directed by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations featuring the voices of British non-actors in the same vein as the " man on the street " Vox Pop interviews.

) In the top-left frame, a man ( possibly Nick Út ) stands and appears to take photographs as a passing airplane drops bombs.

* There will be more stress on the law-enforcement role of “ Nick Rossi ,” Ness ’ s right-hand man on the show.

The five come to the dwelling of the tinsmith Ku-Klip where the Tin Woodman talks to himself — that is, the head of the man ( Nick Chopper ) he once was.

* According to Nick Hancock, a guest on one of the first episodes ( whose identity he did not reveal ) failed to grasp the humorous nature of the show and nominated " man's inhumanity to man ".

2 hit single " Kings Of The Wild Frontier " and on the US edition of the hit album of the same name ) claiming that " If passion ends in fashion, then Nick Kent is the best dressed man in town ..." In addition, then-Ants guitarist Matthew Ashman assaulted and humiliated Kent with a potful of strawberry jam in the queue outside Camden's Music Machine venue one evening.

Originally an ordinary man by the name of Nick Chopper ( the name first appearing in The Marvelous Land of Oz ), the Tin Woodman used to make his living chopping down trees in the forests of Oz, as his father had before him.

In The Tin Woodman of Oz, Nick Chopper finally sets out to find his lost love, Nimmie Amee, but discovers that she has already married Chopfyt, a man constructed partly out of his own dismembered and discarded limbs.

The first involves a young man with strange healing powers named Ben Hawkins ( Nick Stahl ), who joins a traveling carnival when it passes near his home in Milfay, Oklahoma.

Debby goes home, where her mother Virginia has also started dating an older man named Nick who wants her to move with him to Florida.

* The Tin Woodman ( Nick Chopper )-An enchanted man made entirely out of tin and the current Emperor of the Winkies.

( as Nick, for which he was nominated for an Oscar ), later appearing as a British secret service agent in The Quiller Memorandum, a Cagneyesque gangster in The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, perplexed police detective Mo Brummel in No Way to Treat a Lady, a bookworm in The Owl and the Pussycat, a war-weary platoon commander in The Bridge at Remagen, a man laying waste to his marriage in Loving, and a hairdresser turned junkie in Born to Win.