Scenes from the documentary show that Raimi is the one throwing popcorn at Peter Parker during the walk to the wrestling ring in Spider-Man and tossing gold coins around during the bank robbery scene in Spider-Man 2.

The Ancient Greeks are recorded to have played a game of tossing coins, then flat stones, and later stone balls, called spheristics, trying to have them go as far as possible, as early as the 6th century BC.

Assassin's Creed II also allowed the player to distract guards by tossing coins or by hiring thieves and courtesans, and also featured a notoriety level, which made the player more recognizable until they paid off officials or tore down wanted posters.

In the fair case where, we could expect to wait something on the order of tosses before seeing 42 consecutive tails ; tossing coins at the rate of one toss per second, this would require approximately 279, 000 years.

Cage achieves that by employing chance ( e. g. use of the I Ching, or tossing coins ) to make compositional decisions.

Votive offerings have been described in historical Roman era and Greek sources, although similar acts continue into the present day, for example in traditional Catholic culture and, arguably, in the modern day practice of tossing coins into a wishing well or fountain.

An important difference between these two approaches is that the first approach gives some weight to one's prior experience of tossing coins, while the second does not.

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Then they try tossing coins, but each one keeps throwing only has heads.

For many nights afterward, the idea of her having been so close to me in that imagined bed would return and fill me with obscure and painful desires, would cause me to lie awake in shame, tossing with irresolution, longing to fall into a deep sleep.

Surrealists like Hans Arp and Max Ernst might talk of creation by hazard -- of composing pictures by walking on them with painted soles, or by tossing bits of paper up in the air.

Many players, in order to eliminate the confusion of tossing four chips to the center of the table or having change made while bets are being placed, will make a five-unit Horn High bet, which is a four-way bet with the extra unit going to one specific number.

The two begin to fight again, with the revitalized Kong swinging Godzilla around by his tail, shoving a tree into Godzilla's mouth, and judo tossing him over his shoulder.

Crane had fun with this, tossing in an occasional " ker-splash " or " lickety-wop " along with what would become the more standard effects.

When dealing with experiments that are random and well-defined in a purely theoretical setting ( like tossing a fair coin ), probabilities describe the statistical number of outcomes considered divided by the number of all outcomes ( tossing a fair coin twice will yield HH with probability 1 / 4, because the four outcomes HH, HT, TH and TT are possible ).

But simply, play proceeds as follows: a player on one of the teams begins a ' rally ' by serving the ball ( tossing or releasing it and then hitting it with a hand or arm ), from behind the back boundary line of the court, over the net, and into the receiving team's court.

* Underhand: a serve in which the player strikes the ball below the waist instead of tossing it up and striking it with an overhand throwing motion.

Cooking with the tossing action in loop-handled woks requires a large amount of hand, arm and wrist strength.

Stick handles are popular in northern China, where food in the wok is frequently turned with a tossing motion of the arm and wrist when stir-frying food.

Whole chestnuts are dry roasted by tossing them in a dry wok with several pounds of small stones.

This presents two problems when using a wok on an induction cooktop: traditionally shaped woks, which are round-bottomed, don't have enough contact with the cooking surface to generate notable heat ; and the tossing technique, where the wok is lifted off the burner and agitated, will break contact and turn off the burner.

The large sloped sides also make it easier for chefs to employ the tossing cooking technique on solid and thick liquid food with less spillage and a greater margin of safety.

* the adaptation of the flag, rifle, and sabre units into " auxiliaries ", who march with the band and provide visual flair by spinning and tossing flags or mock weapons and using dance in the performance

It is known that in a statistical experiment such as tossing a fair coin and counting the occurrences of heads and tails, the numbers of heads and tails after a great many throws will differ by only a tiny percentage, while after only a few throws outcomes with a significant excess of heads over tails or vice versa are common ; if an experiment with a few throws is repeated over and over, the outcomes will fluctuate a lot.

A suitcase handle was sewn into Keaton's clothing to aid with the constant tossing.

A shinty shy involves the taker tossing the ball above his head and hitting the ball with the shaft of the caman.

The sequence changed each season, but always ended with Mary tossing her hat at an intersection in downtown Minneapolis.

" jumped, bounced " in reference to tossing while cooking ) is a method of cooking food, that uses a small amount of oil or fat in a shallow pan over relatively high heat.

She declined, tossing off her own memo saying, " I would prefer to choose my own underwear.

But because of his gentle nature I felt he was less equipped to be at the helm amid violent tossing waves ( Pastor, History of the Popes, vol. XXXV, p. 379 ).

In English and in Chinese, roti canai is sometimes referred to as " flying bread " ( 飞饼 fēibǐng ), a term that evokes the process of tossing and spinning by which it is made.

It is possible to perform a large variety of tricks with the Chinese yo-yo which can be as easy as throwing the yo-yo up into the air or tossing it around the user's back.

`` That's all right '', she said, tossing her head back to get the hair out of her eyes.

* It is a normal number, which means that its digits are equidistributed as if they were generated by tossing a fair coin.

Walter Frederick Morrison discovered a market for the modern-day flying disc in 1938 when he and future wife Lucile were offered US25 cents for a cake pan that they were tossing back and forth to each other on the beach in Santa Monica, California.

In the case of coin tossing, as a run of heads gets longer and longer, the likelihood that the coin is biased towards heads increases.

Various styles can be used as a control measure, to prevent the horse from avoiding rider commands by raising its head out of position ; or as a safety measure to keep the horse from tossing its head high or hard enough to smack its rider in the face.

The minimum bet is then the lowest denomination chip in play, and tossing only 1 chip is considered a call.

But some important random experiments, such as tossing a coin until it rises heads, give rise to an infinite set of outcomes.

Examples of the first kind include tossing dice or spinning a roulette wheel ; an example of the second kind is radioactive decay.

In the case of tossing a fair coin, frequentists say that the probability of getting a heads is 1 / 2, not because there are two equally likely outcomes but because repeated series of large numbers of trials demonstrate that the empirical frequency converges to the limit 1 / 2 as the number of trials goes to infinity.

The plow gangs followed behind, stirring the soil near the rows of cotton plants and tossing it back around the plants.

The origin of the glide dates to 1951, when Parry O ' Brien of the United States invented a technique that involved the putter facing backwards, rotating 180 degrees across the circle, and then tossing the shot.

Highlights included Johnson earning his 300th career victory, becoming the twenty-fourth pitcher in Major League history to do so, as well as struggling starter Jonathan Sánchez tossing a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres on July 10, the first Giants no-hitter since 1976.

Bogdanov found the pentangle theme to be contained in most sword dances, and so incorporated a long sword dance while Gawain lay tossing uneasily before getting up to go to the Green Chapel.

Finally, the pilgrims perform a ritual Stoning of the Devil by tossing pebbles at three pillars.

The serve is initiated by tossing the ball into the air and hitting it ( usually near the apex of its trajectory ) into the diagonally opposite service box without touching the net.