In this segment, as the lead character is driving along in his new car, a series of audible highway signs reports that the distance to the Antelope Freeway is 1 mile, then mile, then mile, mile, and so on.

In Seleucid and Parthian times, the astronomical reports were of a thoroughly scientific character ; how much earlier their advanced knowledge and methods were developed is uncertain.

In the Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus refers to Seth as virtuous and of excellent character, and reports that his descendants invented the wisdom of the heavenly bodies, and built the " pillars of the sons of Seth ", two pillars inscribed with many scientific discoveries and inventions, notably in astronomy.

The seed would allow Chinese peasants to grow consumer products right out of the ground, which would put an end to the increasing material hardship ( one character reports that the interior water table has emptied out, forcing the mass abandonment of Han girls that later form the Mouse Army ) that cripples Chinese society.

Gelder reports that Glenn Close ' consulted three separate shrinks for an inner profile of her character, who is meant to be suffering from a form of obsessive condition known as de Clérambault's syndrome ' ( Gelder 1990, 93 — 94 )".

In " Inquisition ", the character of Dr. Bashir refuses to join Section 31 and reports its actions, but still ponders its significance: " But what would that say about us?

# The reports of Jesus ' character in the Bible are not reliable.

As a young man, Chopra's desire was to become an actor or journalist, but he reports that he was inspired by a character in Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis and became a doctor.

There was also concern about the surname and the third character, each of which are formed from components meaning which " 1, 800 female ghosts " ( 千八女鬼 ); some local media reports referred to the name as " two ghosts knocking at the door " ( 雙鬼拍門 ).

Set photographs and studio production reports ( on file in the Warner Brothers collection at University of Southern California, and the Warner Bros. collection of studio key books at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York ) in fact contradict Anger's claims, conclusively proving that the character was played by a girl named Sheila Brown.

The gazette concludes that the manner of the crime, and the weapon used, both point to Budd's foreign birth and subversive character ; it then reports that the mutineer has paid the price of his crime and nothing more is amiss aboard HMS Bellipotent.

Ennio Flaiano, the film's co-screenwriter and creator of Paparazzo, reports that he took the name from a character in a novel by George Gissing.

Some, though use an expanded series of lists and some enliven their reports by adding some fictional ' character ' to the material-perhaps taking literally the idea that they are stories about the future-though they are still clearly intended to be factual.

It explores layers of identity and reality, from Paul Auster the writer of the novel to the unnamed " author " who reports the events as reality to " Paul Auster the writer ", a character in the story, to " Paul Auster the detective ", who may or may not exist in the novel, to Peter Stillman the younger to Peter Stillman the elder and, finally, to Daniel Quinn, protagonist.

The different versions follow the same general lines: the primary character ( in this case Randall, but varying by location ) is poisoned, usually by his sweetheart ; this is revealed through a conversation where he reports on the events and the poisoner.

Along with increasing reports that General Hospital may be canceled in fall 2012, so too are rumors of Marcil's return to close out the storylines involving her character, Brenda.

As such, early reports speak of Garth Marenghi, and his publisher, Dean Learner, in character.

Such a drop was inevitable and foreseeable in the context of the Serbsky Center efforts to eliminate adversary character of the expert reports of the parties and then to maximally degrade the role of a professional as a reviewer and critic of a presented expert report.

In 1865, when he succeeded August Wilhelm von Hofmann at the School of Mines, he undertook the duty of making monthly reports to the registrar-general on the character of the water supplied to London, and these he continued down to the end of his life.

The central character, a businessman called Biedermann, is seen at the outset reading newspaper reports of arson, convinced that he could never be taken in.

She has also appeared in a number of episodes of the sitcom My Hero, reading the news, mainly reports of character Thermoman's heroic deeds.

There were reports that Jaitly was slated to play the character of a Persian princess in the film Quest of Scheherzade along with actors Sean Connery and Orlando Bloom, and directed by Ken Khan.

Angelou reports that maintaining the distinction between herself and " the Maya character " is " damned difficult ", but " very necessary ".

As for Dagobert himself, the Liber Historiae Francorum reports he died of illness, but otherwise says nothing about his character or actions.

Still, he resigns himself to his fate and his character disappears.

In composing the character of Aeneas, Virgil alludes to Augustus, suggesting that the gods work their ways through humans, using Aeneas to found Rome and Augustus to lead it, and that one must accept one's fate.

In one episode of Max Headroom, " Academy ", the character Blank Reg fights for his life on a courtroom game show, with the audience deciding his fate.

Though invisible, fate may be considered a leading character in the One Thousand and One Nights.

Maureen is ostensibly recording the events of the book while being held in a future prison, awaiting her uncertain fate, along with Pixel, the eponymous character of The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.

It is also a misconception that this reversal can be brought about by a higher power ( e. g. the law, the gods, fate, or society ), but if a character ’ s downfall is brought about by an external cause, Aristotle describes this as a misadventure and not a tragedy.

At another point, Lazarus offers to recount the fate of the Jockaira, from Methuselah's Children, but another character cuts him off, saying, " Since that lie is already in his memoirs in four conflicting versions, why should we be burdened with a fifth?

When his character is arrested for a kidnapping, he describes the horrendous fate suffered by the last person who crossed him: Archie Leach ( Grant's real name ).

The fate of a fourth member of the race, Time Lady Romanadvoratrelundar ( Romana ), a former companion of the Doctor, is unknown, as when the character last appeared in the television series she was residing in a parallel dimension.

This series introduces the character of Thessaly, who will play a key role in Morpheus ' eventual fate.

In the television show Doctor Who and the spin-off show Torchwood, the character Jack Harkness faces the same fate as Tithonus in that when brought back from the dead, he discovers he is now both immortal — in the sense of recovering well from being killed-and still ageing, albeit extremely slowly — perhaps over billions of years.

This style was not purely visual, but had the effect of highlighting the character's relationship to his environment ; often this environment was identified with the fate in which the character was trapped.

The fate is also suffered by Oliver Reed ’ s less innocent character Urbain Grandier in Ken Russell ’ s The Devils ( 1971 ).

In a reference to the fate of Muldaur's character on L. A. Law, The Star Trek Encyclopedia categorically states that " there is no truth to the rumor that an ancestor of Dr. Pulaski was killed falling down the elevator shaft at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm.

Her earlier performance was in one of the first season's most unsettling episodes, " The Hitch-Hiker ", in which she played another tormented character, a lone driver who meets her inexorable fate in the personification of death.

Within the series, Dawn is the little sister of main character Buffy Summers ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ), a girl chosen by fate to be a vampire Slayer.

In most games these companions are invulnerable and players will generally not concern with the non-playable characters ' fate, but Ico creates the sense of " trust and childish fragility " around Yorda, and that these leads to the character being " the game ’ s entire focus ".

This story takes the reader through Bean's experiences in Battle School and shows how he, a secondary character in Ender's Game, is much more important to the fate of Earth than it originally seemed.

Tchernichovsky particularly identified with the character of Saul, perhaps due to his own name, and the poem expresses considerable empathy to this King's tragic fate.

Each sticker card features a Garbage Pail Kid character having some comical abnormality and / or suffering a terrible fate, with a humorous, word play-rich character name such as Glandular Angela or Half-Nelson.

As fate would have it, Lantz won the bet, and Oswald was now his character.

The fate of Lorian following the restoration of the time line is not known ( the writers having left a door open for a later return by the popular character ).

The indomitable character which had raised him from farm labourer to premier, and his recognition of the altruistic broader view that was required in a great movement such as Federation, had an immense effect when the cause's fate was in doubt, and weighted the scale in its favour.