nuts and bolts

Most of them were what might be called nuts and bolts pieces about the process.

Those materials from third-party vendors will be the physical and metaphorical nuts and bolts that are used to construct each satellite.

“It was a huge gift that basically saved us two weeks of rehearsal, as we worked out fight choreography, physical comedy timing and the nuts and bolts of farce,” FastHorse said.

“Constellation” has elements of 1970s-style paranoid thrillers like “Capricorn One” and “The Parallax View,” combined with scenes showing the nuts and bolts of space travel, as in Apple TV’s “For All Mankind.”

The process paved the way for the next generation of leaders to learn the nuts and bolts of running a multibillion-dollar organization and to prove their readiness for more responsibility.