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Who knew that a chair could turn out to be such a complicated, costly machine? Not even retired Hewlett-Packard engineer Joe Barbera, flipping over a disassembled cinema seat to reveal the array of complicated parts that are usually hidden below a moviegoer’s bottom.
On Friday, Barbera joined assembly-line labor temporarily staged on the stage of the Kiggins Theatre.
