| 单词 | mechanical |
| 例句 | He had been disappointed to find the miniature mechanical baseball game gone. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes,” Violet said, “and then, if you don’t mind, I should love to look at any of your books concerning mechanical engineering. Inventing things is a great interest of mine.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The electric lights, the various mechanical pieces spread across the worktable, the shelf of neatly labeled solvents—the tinkerers laboratory is a completely different world than the one I was used to. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In the candlelight, Isabelle hadn’t yet seen the mechanical man sitting nearby. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Mathematics is often taken to be mechanical, the work of low- level technicians who will report to the rest of us anything we absolutely must know. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "It's worth a king's ransom, this bottle. It cost me two large blue-white diamonds, a mechanical bluebird which sang, and a dragon's scale." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The toil was dull and mechanical, but at least he was moving, and at least every step took him closer to Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The mechanical ring drilled its way down the hall, and I held my breath, hoping it wasn’t a wrong number. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He blinked and the world grew hard again, mechanical, distinct. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Father said that constant speculation regarding the position of mechanical hands on an arbitrary dial which is a symptom of mind-function. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z As we have seen, the first mechanical clocks date to the late thirteenth century, and their geared machinery derived from water-wheels and windmills. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But the thought of losing the mechanical man was too much to bear. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z James C. Evans, an MIT engineering graduate, ran the school’s trade and mechanical studies program before accepting a position as a Civilian Aide in the War Department in 1942. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Do you see, Glerk?” she said, showing off her mechanical cricket, made of polished wood and glass eyes and tiny metal legs attached to springs. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The transport sphere plowed along the trench, past all the fortified city’s defenses: walls, moats, machicolations, crossbow cannons, drawbridges, bristling spear pits, bladed gates, and giant mechanical grinders. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The Station Inspector, not letting go of Hugo, leaned over and moved the fabric until he could see the mechanical man lying on its side, its neck bent backward. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z So when More invented the term ‘mechanical philosophy’ he was playing his part in importing the new terminology into English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A mechanical drumbeat grew loud in the distance—the chop-chop-chop of a helicopter. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “This is where we keep all the cells,” he yelled over a deafening mechanical hum that made Deborah’s and Zakariyya’s hearing aids squeal. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Pilot and navigator error, mechanical failure, and bad luck were killing trainees at a stunning rate. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “I’m ptetty mechanical. Got ours up and running. For a minute anyway.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see anything, but I heard a sound, a mechanical one, surprisingly far away—the house seemed to go much further back into the dark than I’d guessed. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A mechanical whirring—I didn’t know what was making that sound. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z In the distance he heard a clanking, mechanical noise. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Apart from the liberal arts, the skills of the educated, there were plenty of arts that involved manual labour—mechanical arts—such as goldsmithing or masonry. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Then there were more mechanical sounds, and Madame emerged pushing a figure in a wheelchair. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Her voice lost all expression, became the hard mechanical voice of every day. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It was a drum machine making its lumbering way down the street Wide as a house, it shimmered with the movement of its dozens of mechanical arms, bashing away at every size of drum. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Men, women, and children watched as a mechanical dragon-like creature with a swastika painted on its armor trampled humans to death while a trumpet blared and a loudspeaker screeched, "Heil Hitler!" Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z A mechanical golden insect whirred to life above them, opening its stained-glass wings and hovering so they were lit as if standing under a Tiffany lamp. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Mother drank tea while she listened to the mechanical yapping of the Doberman. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Stalin and the Communist Party encouraged ambitious designers, daring pilots, and mechanical experts to create an industry that was exemplary throughout the world. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And while her mechanical body was holding up, her wooden foot was not. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Two matching SUVs are parked in the drive, shining as if their pretentious mechanical lives depend on it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z There is mechanical drawing and calligraphy, and each student spends four hours a week on freehand drawing. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I take a mechanical bite and chew without tasting. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They take pains to explain that ants are not, emphatically not, tiny mechanical models of human beings. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was engineers such as de Caus who, by generalizing the concept of a moving mechanism, made the clockwork universe and the mechanical man possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Danny didn’t need to read the passage—he quoted it by heart with mechanical swiftness. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z It was an early recording device, patented in 1857 by a Frenchman, that captured sound and then, through a mechanical arm, transcribed it onto a piece of paper. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Although Dad made his living by redesigning complicated machinery, so as to reduce the number of human motions required to operate it, he never really understood the mechanical intricacies of our automobile. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew he would have to put down the mechanical man to open the door, and he was tiying to figure out the least painful way to do that when there was a knock. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z His legs move with gawky and mechanical articulations, knees bending while his hands hang at his sides. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The party was a success, and Catherine clapped her hands at her present, a mechanical bird on a wire that flew around the living room. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He had finally repaired all of the mechanical man’s broken pieces and painstakingly loosened what was too rusty to move. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “A plumping mill is a mechanical device run by water power. It lifts a hammer and drops it.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Pascal’s explanation is a mechanical explanation, and its oddity is that it extends the scope of mechanical explanations from the artificial world of levers and pulleys to the natural world of gases and liquids. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Every earth-digger and mechanical contrivance in the country had been mobilized to dig the colossal hole in which the nine giants were to be permanently imprisoned. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But I could hear it when she spoke—the raspy breathing, the gathered mucus, the slightly mechanical tone. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z An unaccountable serenity had stolen upon me; I felt the operations of my wits as clean and mechanical, aiming only at that which needed to transpire: the flight at the appointed time across the mud. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Before he could cover the mechanical man, the door burst open. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z In the candlelight, Isabelle hadn’t yet seen the mechanical man sitting nearby. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Leo had had a lot of practice dodging mechanical monsters, which was good, because the golden serpent was fast. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It was then that Zeitoun realized that there was a sound, a heavy mechanical drone, cloaking the air around them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “The mermaid caught his eye. I told him it was a mechanical pencil. He was very excited about that discovery. He said it was ‘the right gift for Lucy.’” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z As a young man, Blaise invented a mechanical calculating machine, named the Pascaline, which is similar to some of the mechanical calculators that engineers used before the invention of the electronic calculator. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Her voice had got mechanical, like she was reciting a story she’d read in the newspaper—one that didn’t have anything to do with her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She slipped through before the mechanical arm could close it again. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The voice sounded mechanical, the voice of a person reciting something written. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Her voice was that old, dead, mechanical one I had heard so often. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z On the small smoking table beside the stand of pipes, I caught sight of the mechanical bank, swaddled in an apron. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It came out of the water beneath us, hissing and clanking like some giant mechanical monster. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He had never really stopped to consider why the pieces from the old man’s toys fit so well into the mechanical man. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z For the first time, Hugo had fixed something on the mechanical man without guidance from the notebook! The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Given our concerns here, however, it’s sufficient to note that not even theoretically is mathematics mechanical or complete. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The mechanical engineering might save my life if something breaks. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when your plane is flying in a windless sky, a mechanical failure can make it difficult or impossible to fly. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He adjusted a lever and the thin jangle of mechanical music began. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Smart beyond your years. There are places for a boy like you. General Heissmeyer’s schools. Best of the best. Teach the mechanical sciences too. Code breaking, rocket propulsion, all the latest.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Hugo yelled out, and to his horror he dropped the mechanical man, which landed 011 the ground with an awful ringing crash. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z But the twinkle in Julian’s eye, as I looked at him now, was mechanical and dead. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Security bots glide around the floor, looking like ladies with mechanical jaws and long-nosed masks and black parasols. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps we had become a little arrogant with our fine new technique of ice-claw and rubber slipper, our age of easy mechanical conquest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “Everything mechanical. When you were young, every time someone asked you what you wanted to do when you were all grown up, you said you wanted to marry Pelé. What’s happened to that dream?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z When the subject of the barge tour came up—and it came up fairly often—Henry played along in only the most perfunctory way, and his replies were mechanical and forced. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They’d passed the green riot of the Emerald Palace, and right next door, in front of the Gold Strike, there’d been a boy selling little mechanical dogs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The garage door opened up with a smooth mechanical hum. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He went through mechanical reactions in order of increasing difficulty. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “If no one cares, why did we have to hike out here? Why can’t we just drive too, and use a scanner and mechanical digger and take what we want?” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I had no doubt that their chariot had all kinds of mechanical traps and more fancy options than a fully loaded Maserati. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z After separating and turning around, I approached Eagle, which looked like a mechanical spider crouched in its hole atop the Saturn. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Father was more of a mechanical artist than a businessman. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave him a mechanical bear that walked on its hind legs on a tightrope, but he could not distract him from his obsession. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He was an inveterate tinkerer and inventor, a lover of gadgetry and mechanical devices, a designer of machines and contraptions of all sorts, a dreamer of big dreams. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She wouldn’t have liked it so much if she had had to take a stenographic course like Hazel and Etta had done—but she got special permission and took mechanical shop like a boy. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Well, we came as graduate students. I applied to Emory University business school and Grandma applied to Georgia Tech for a master’s degree in mechanical engineering.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z But the mechanical man didn’t stop what it was doing. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z What was worst of all was that the work was by no means purely mechanical. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A mechanical sphere about the size of a bowling ball was embedded in the center. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Hugo couldn’t be taken away now, not when he was so close to finishing the mechanical man. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Neglect did not extend to the mechanical, however. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “The walls are moving parts. They gotta be mechanical. Give me a second.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I'm a botanist and mechanical engineer; basically, the mission's fix-it man who played with plants. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Others rush to me, the mechanical women’s eyes flashing, their black parasols spinning like razor-sharp blades. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which' we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z They abused their visitors with a scorn grown mechanical from use. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Hugo found himself surrounded by more mechanical parts than he ever could have imagined. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The somer-keirimer cycle strikes us as degrading, a return to the estrous cycle of the lower mammals, a subjection of human beings to the mechanical imperative of rut. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s time to go back to the sixteenth century and pick up the threads of the developments in astronomy and the mechanical sciences which followed on from the work of Copernicus. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Eyes downcast, with mechanical movements, they follow me through the line, accepting bowls of grayish fish and okra stew and cups of water. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The world waited for the door of the crab-like mechanical contraption to open. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Hume pulled as smooth as silk, and with the precise, mechanical regularity of a metronome. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The mechanical pounding stopped suddenly, making the silence feel stark. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Soapbox what?” some neighbors and Bethel AME parishioners and Girl Scout troop members had asked when Mary told them about her and Levi’s mechanical exploits. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z An echoing shell made of metal and mechanical parts. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z My dad had a degree in mechanical engineering from Louisiana State University, but since he was undocumented, it was impossible for him to get hired for jobs that fit his qualifications. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The drafting table was bare except for a blotter and a Sox mug full of mechanical pencils. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The chariot veered off course and plowed through the strawberry fields, the mechanical horses steaming. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I think it might as well be now” Charles Wallace gave a slight jerk of his head, saying, “Come,” and started to walk in a strange, gliding, mechanical manner. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Over in the bow, Leo whistled happily as he tinkered with Festus’s mechanical brain, muttering something about a crystal and an astrolabe. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Loomis obtained other patents, including one for a mechanical horse-race toy, but he was proudest of the Aberdeen Chronograph, which became standard field equipment for the army and the navy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z What if science and the experimental method and the dignity of crafts and mechanical arts had been vigorously pursued 2,000 years before the Industrial Revolution? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish I could’ve put the mechanical spider on a leash. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z When I first came to Przemyśl, this place made mechanical toys. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Curiosity would not be sated until the mechanical finches that were now so abundant around the globe had evolved to fly to the limits of the atmosphere. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Before he could cover the mechanical man, the door burst open. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The mechanical man hadn’t been writing ... it was drawing! The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z She ate in a mechanical way, as if eating was a chore, but she finished everything. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He put the key in the heart-shaped hole in the middle of the mechanical man’s back. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z And, finally, worked his precise mechanical mind over the highest function of the robot world—the solutions of problems in judgment and ethics. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z These include not only all of the genres of music, the verbal languages, and accents, but also the mechanical, digital, human, and animal noises, and all of the ambient sounds around us. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The future lay not only with the new philosophies, whether mechanical or Newtonian; it also lay with the new machines. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The mechanical bird chirped at her as she passed. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Huge mechanical teeth burst through the street and chew the tile to dust. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z No matter how mechanical she seems, she’s still human; there are tears in her eyes as she takes a box from her desk drawer and opens it, revealing a needle and syringe. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Gravity involved action over a distance, something impossible according to the mechanical philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To do this, he had to run up and down a ladder attached to a huge machine, and push a variety of buttons that made gigantic cranes move like mechanical dinosaurs to lift the bundles. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It’s embarrassing to spend all your time with a seven-year-old girl, but Jimmy is always fiddling with his mechanical devices, so what am I supposed to do? Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A cascade of perfect movements, with hundreds of brilliantly calibrated actions, coursed through the mechanical man. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z A mechanical explanation, by contrast, is about external causes, not internal ones. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Indeed, not only in astronomy but in other realms of inquiry, notably mechanical technology and medicine, the ancients seem almost perverse in their aversion to stumbling on the truth. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “You know, you never told me where you got the mechanical man.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The cop scans left and right and hears the mechanical voice warning passengers to stand clear of the closing doors. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He constructed elaborate fountains, with grottos containing mechanical singing birds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was time for me to put on my mechanical engineer hat. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As seen from the outside, you would take an infinite amount of time to fall in, because all your clocks—mechanical and biological—would be perceived as having stopped. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Whitby had surely been driven by numb, mechanical logic when he had chosen the Cold Storage building as the place to set the first fire. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z ‘You were not aware of mechanical problems after leaving Manila?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Then, just as they’d all expected, came the mechanical, haunted sounds of the Grievers outside. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Because, some historians declare, they lacked the aptitude or impetus for mechanical invention. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Furniture advanced and retreated in the mechanical manner of a fun house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z People with autism are obsessed with mechanical objects, but this was a movie that followed very much the spare, actor-focused design of the stage. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He was studying mechanical engineering, set to graduate near the top of his class, and soon after would start a PhD at Purdue. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z This, Mr. Byerley, is a court order authorizing me to search these premises for the presence of illegal...uh...mechanical men or robots of any description.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “A man,” Pris said distantly, “of action. Too bad he’s so poor with his hands, doing mechanical things.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He just kept praying that he could avoid the Station Inspector until his questions about the mechanical man had been answered. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Bouncing, rocking, tipping, Amarante rode his mammoth mechanical bronco across the wide and lovely mesa—jackrabbits fled for their lives. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Tree frogs peeped loudly from the banks, but their song was too mechanical to be comforting. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Before he got ready for bed Hugo took out the mechanical man and looked through all the little parts he’d stolen since he started working at the booth. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z He put the key in the heart-shaped hole in the middle of the mechanical man’s back. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z It grows into an earsplitting mechanical resonance that changes pitch as a shadow passes overhead. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z But all of a sudden, more than you know, he’s outside somewhere, sometimes even alone, crossing the streets, scaling rocks, wrestling with dogs, swimming in pits, getting into everything mechanical and combustible and toxic. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He fixed the mechanical creatures that had stopped working. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z My dad was a twenty-eight-year-old mechanical engineering student at Louisiana State University. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Somehow, she incorporated a mechanical beauty queen wave, which exploded into a motion where she seemed to pull herself up by an invisible string. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Years later, she’d had a panic attack at a water park in Denver, when Percy and she were assaulted by mechanical spiders. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Later, when he visited his father at his clock shop, Hugo watched him carefully, and then when he grew restless he made little mechanical animals out of the extra bits and pieces lying around. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Viruses may seem alive when they multiply, but in another sense they are obviously dead, are only machines, subtle ones to be sure, but strictly mechanical, no more alive than a jackhammer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The city council was discussing the purchase of a mechanical sweeper. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When it comes to fixing mechanical things, I fell somewhere into the Complete Idiot level. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z From the very first moment his father had told him about it, the mechanical man had become the center of Hugo’s life. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z But beyond the grubby clay-and-straw houses and the concrete official buildings that surrounded them in Engels, beyond the daily flights and mechanical drills, what was going on in the world? A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Kronos backed me up against the throne of Hephaestus—a huge mechanical La-Z-Boy type thing covered with bronze and silver gears. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z But the mechanical man didn’t stop what it was doing. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Outside the Casa Rosada a black cat, a mechanical man, a Little Red Riding Hood, two tramps and four ancient Egyptians joined the already unwieldy group. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The red metal of the drone glints in the blazing sun; I shield my eyes from the light and stare at the mechanical spy as if it has eyes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z His shirt pocket stretched with its load of mechanical pencils. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z "I want the outer door locked in the fully open position with the mechanical stopper in place to keep it from being trashed by the decompress." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He imagined the tiger standing on the mechanical lift that would hoist him close to the surface. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Hugo returned to his room and was relieved to see the mechanical man still sitting in the center of the floor. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Models of cars and superheroes and mechanical animals covered the top of the dresser. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z What is the relationship between the Scientific Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, between the mathematicians’ revolution and the mechanical revolution? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The mechanical man dipped the pen into the ink and began to write. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The women mathematicians dominated their mechanical calculators the same way the test pilots dominated their mechanical planes. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They convinced me that, according to the quantum mechanical uncertainty principle, rotating black holes should create and emit particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Trucks with flat beds loaded with empty potato barrels moved on the roads, and the mechanical potato digger turned up long windrows of pale-skinned tubers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The trio dashed up a narrow pathway to where they saw the robot extending its quadruple-jointed mechanical arm to pluck a flat metal box out of a slide-in compartment. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z There was silence down the line, broken only by distant mechanical clicking. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The words came out with the mechanical good cheer of frequent repetition. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Mrs. V returns to me and helps me change the original welcome message from the very mechanical- sounding “Welcome to Medi-Talker” to Trish’s voice saying, “Hi! I’m Melody. Talk to me!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Maybe Hazel was supposed to come here and find this couple in their cottage who only had a sad mechanical bird to keep them company. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He walked in the nervous night past the high school and past the skating rink—a floor with a big tent over it, and a mechanical orchestra clanging away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Hugo thought about the little mechanical parts inside the mouse, as well as the other toys that he had stolen and used to fix the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z In his twenties now, Horace made a mechanical instrument that helped his father study how far a stone moved vertically. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It furnishes mechanical energy to muscle cells; electrical energy to nerve cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The mechanical man’s movements were so lifelike that its head even turned toward the inkwell as it dipped the pen for more ink. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z There are a lot of ways I could lose pressure in this mechanical abomination I've created, and I don't want all my water to boil off if that happens. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Anxiously, he headed for the boxes that were piled near the wall and pulled out the mechanical man. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “Now,” boomed Wednesday, over the mechanical music, “at the start of any quest or enterprise it behooves us to consult the Norns. So let us designate this Sybil our Urd, eh?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The message was repetitious, mechanical, broken by regular, untiring intervals. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Sure enough, five women staggered along on mismatched legs—mechanical bronze on the left, shaggy and cloven-hooved on the right. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z ‘Well, I hadn’t thought of that. But think mechanical. Frank, Hazel... where did we see concentric circles like that before?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Alongside these we can put the mechanical reproduction of text and images by means of the printing press, which transformed the communication of knowledge and established new types of intellectual community. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z "I’ll be right here with Bobo—” "I’m sure you will,” John added as we went out of the monkey house and got on this mechanical contraption that came by. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Steel cables shot out of .the front of his mechanical horses, wrapping around our back rail. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I hear a crackling sound and a mechanical voice. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But then I suppose it takes at least one hour to lose time in, who has been longer than history getting into the mechanical progression of it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His parents give him an Instamatic camera, a new sketchbook, colored pencils and the mechanical pen he’d asked for, and twenty dollars to spend as he wishes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It isn’t too hard to do if you know how, and Moira had mechanical ability, she used to fix her own car, the minor things. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the women were capable of lightning- fast mental math, rivaling their mechanical calculating machines for speed and accuracy. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Another mechanical squeal screeched through the Maze, close now, followed by the surge of revved machinery. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Two Roman soldiers came into the shop with a mechanical drawing on papyrus of a device they wanted built by sunrise the next morning. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo spotted Piper’s knife, an old leather-bound book, a few interesting-looking mechanical devices, and enough gold to give Hazel’s horse a stomachache. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Even at that young age, Luna possessed a mechanical mind, and was able to construct little machines that whirred and ticked. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Already in the seventeenth century the mathematicians’ revolution was becoming indistinguishable from a mechanical revolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The mechanical man’s movements were so lifelike that its head even turned toward the inkwell as it dipped the pen for more ink. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The robot’s body may have been hard and mechanical, but it was also strong and safe. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z They helped transform the way in which philosophers thought about machinery, just as Descartes’ obsession with automata resulted in a new mechanical philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hazel shook her head slightly at the strangeness of it, this once-ordinary sound that in the mist-filled forest felt like a mechanical menace. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Her eyes were lustrous gold, like the copper and bronze disks inside Festus’s mechanical head. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Other boys were jumping rope, jerking up and down like mechanical jacks-in-the-box, or straining on leather floor mats until their neck cords popped, or slamming medicine balls into each other's stomachs. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The mechanical lizard’s armored head almost touched the top of the spherical shield. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They ride the bucking robots as if they are mechanical bulls. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z All these simple machines provide a mechanical advantage in moving a load. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Their education complemented their uniquely American facility with machines and technology, for they had spent their boyhoods surrounded by mechanical gadgetry: farm machines, radios, and cars. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Surround him!” the king yelled, “Save the horses!”— and suddenly I knew I was dealing with no dull mechanical bull but with thinking creatures, pattern makers, the most dangerous things I’d ever met. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Vaucanson not only made a mechanical duck, he also devised a machine that would automatically weave brocades. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The driver, Mr. Post, chops wood, tends the stove, sweeps the leaves from the front walkway, and does mechanical repairs on the truck. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Then I started treatments at the Ospedale Maggiore for bending the knees, mechanical treatments, baking in a box of mirrors with violet rays, massage, and baths. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Mrs. Baylor crossed the room to the dishwasher and began to unload it, but her movements were kind of mechanical, as if her thoughts were on something else. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z But Jim, who had studied mechanical engineering with an aerospace emphasis, wasn’t a computer geek. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A skirt with a beaded pattern of pomegranates, another that pulls up, like a curtain, to show a stage with jeweled mechanical puppets underneath. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Violet chose several about mechanical inventions, Klaus chose several about wolves, and Sunny found a book with many pictures of teeth inside. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “Suppose,” said Lanning, “there is no dilemma. Suppose Consolidated’s machine broke down over a different question, or broke down for purely mechanical reasons.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “It’s not a he; it’s an it. It’s a mechanical device, and, as such, has no name.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z His pronounced cranium indicates his future deftness with mathematics and mechanical things. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Like Darwin’s finches, the mechanical birds had begun to differentiate themselves, branching into distinct species adapted for success in particular environments. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z His voice and his loudspeaker jingle bells are muted by the dusty glass; he rocks back and forth behind his mechanical reindeer, looking soggy, blowing kisses to the crowd. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When wagons arrived to retrieve the downed silk sleigh and its passengers, the four of them stuck to a simple story of mechanical failure, which was questioned by no one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At last his father lifted a stained white sheet, and there it was . . . the mechanical man. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z He picks up the instrument and opens it to find an exquisite system of cogs and wheels turning inside, resulting in a mechanical device that is capable of telling time. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The eejit choir was lined up like mechanical toys, and someone was sitting at Matt’s piano. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Her words were as mechanical as her smile. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp...It’s like hyperactive twittering of mechanical chicks. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Future generations would take the advances for granted, but in the early days the mechanical birds yielded their secrets slowly, pressed by disciplined experimentation, rigorous mathematics, insight, and luck. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And the milestones of his training: Dutchy passes his physical and scores high on the mechanical aptitude test. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Speaking of cameras, they are huge—like giant, black mechanical space beings on wheels. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “Nor I,” Violet said, “on mechanical engineering. I think I’d like to read about inheritance law.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z He keeps on climbing, mindless, mechanical, because it is the business of goats to climb. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z One time in Denver, his mechanical spiders had almost killed Annabeth and me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It meant a steady income, and it made use of his mechanical skills. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z His father was a mechanical engineer who had designed or invented a new drill bit for oil drilling, a self-cleaning, self-sharpening bit. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The wooden horses of the flying-jinny revolved in the circle to the mechanical music. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It will now be apparent that Descartes and Boyle both have what we may term mechanical philosophies, but that they are very different. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Xenophon’s opinion was: “What are called the mechanical arts carry a social stigma and are rightly dishonoured in our cities.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t build it with the same level of detail as the large mechanical scryers she had in the Tower, but she wasn’t looking for very much. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z But by then he was only routinely enthusiastic as he went over Griffith’s quantum- mechanical arguments. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Coherence depends on more than mechanical decisions such as keeping the topic in subject position and choosing appropriate connectives. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I can’t properly think and listen to the radio at the same time, so it was quiet in the car, except for the thumping rumble of Harold’s mechanical heart. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z His penmanship was a sure indicator that he would have had a future at MIT, the minuscule mechanical pencil marks designed to maximize the amount of cryptic data a genius could record on one page. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Though related to these abstract considerations, the mistaken belief in the mechanical nature of mathematics generally takes more prosaic forms. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A cascade of perfect movements, with hundreds of brilliantly calibrated actions, coursed through the mechanical man. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Finally, he made sure it was completely covered with the fabric so it would be protected from the rain, and then he leaned the mechanical man into the crook of his elbow. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z He says the Khmer Rouge government views science, technology, and anything mechanical as evil and therefore must be destroyed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Patching tires and adjusting the bike’s brakes with a coat hanger became important parts of her mechanical repertoire. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Prints are not unique images but multiple reproductions made by mechanical means. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Here’s a large ornate room crammed with trinkets and crates and books and mechanical parts. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There was no compassion here, only mechanical efficiency. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It may even be replaced by the mechanical labor of a machine. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The Strasbourg clock was built in the middle of the fourteenth century—but the mechanical philosophy was invented three centuries later. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “There was no mechanical damage, Mrs. Hameed. The machine just needs cleaning.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I was vaguely aware of a mechanical voice instructing people to congregate in yellow zones. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It seems to be neither liquid nor gas, mechanical nor natural. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Some are more purely mechanical, having to do with how the information is delivered. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z There was a click, and a mechanical voice came on and gave me a number. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The mechanical pounding stopped suddenly, making the silence feel stark. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Believe me, even back on Earth a botanist/mechanical engineer doesn't exactly have ladies lined up at the door. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z What if he could fix the mechanical man without using the notebook? The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z I had at least a dozen mechanical pencils in my bag. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The terrible sounds he’d heard escalate for the last hour took on a high-pitched, mechanical squeal, like a robotic death yell. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Hugo was frustrated at not being able to draw or play with any of the mechanical parts. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The pride of the game was the depth of its conceptions, Fischer contended, not triumph by mechanical means. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “As for you, Leo Valdez, stay close to Hazel and Frank when you reach Rome. I sense they will face...ah, mechanical difficulties that only you can overcome.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The mechanical man was finally holding a brand-new handmade pen with a specially cut metal nib. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Shadow observed, with a wry amusement, that the bows of the stringed instruments, played by mechanical arms, never actually touched the strings, which were often loose or missing. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z With jagged, mechanical motions, the gypsy lifted her arm and lowered it once more. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z In no sense—no mechanical sense, at any rate—did the words and sentences look as though they had been written by a child. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z My brain simply takes over the responsibility of making sure I'm in lockstep, and I become as mechanical as the guard. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I felt the hard, mechanical isolation of the hospital machine and I didn't like it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo’s new mechanical hoist system had lowered the statue onto the hillside with surprising ease. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A bright green mechanical pencil with a nubby pink eraser at the end. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z In mechanical rhythm, they converted to double and returned to single in different order. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The mechanical eye on his left side was dark. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z In the far corner stood a carnival ticket booth with a mechanical dummy seated inside. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z He still wore a pair of mechanical pencils clipped to his shirt pocket, just as he had in his professor days, but now he wore a white apron too, and a brown pot holder. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not have mechanical clocks, but they had sundials and water clocks. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She might have been mechanical, but Leo couldn’t hear any moving parts. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The rotating table fan by the bed measured out its mechanical breeze in exemplary, democratic turns—first lifting what was left of old Mrs. Pillai’s hair, then Chacko’s. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And the wall sprays let down showers of mechanical rain. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The mechanical spider scuttled between the Sphinx’s paws and disappeared. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z They might have been as good in math, or mechanical skills, but they were not even close in reading or in exploring new ideas. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z If he hadn’t had such an eye for mechanical stuff, they might never have found the secret chute, gotten lost in the underground, and been attacked by metal dudes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I also included a postcard I bought him in Canada, and several mechanical pencils I bought at Staples. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In the middle of the mechanical man’s back was a heart-shaped hole, outlined in silver. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z He had managed to finish fixing the mechanical man. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Just exactly that way, like a mechanical hummingbird might: high-pitched and fast but without much presence. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z It seemed so American to her, flossing, that mechanical sliding of a string between teeth, inelegant and functional. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z An air conditioner gave out a violent mechanical sound, as if it were about to give out. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the work of Hephaestus - bronze mechanical eyes embedded in the giant’s sockets. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Another mechanical piece has to do with the way our brains get stimulated by the mere act of touching the device and, in doing so, causing something to happen. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Theory in the classroom included the principles of flight, aircraft and weapons mechanical instruction, and navigation skills. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Several randomly placed mechanical arms stuck out here and there, each one with a different purpose. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He reached into the bones with the mechanical arm he used to tip shrimp tanks into his collecting bin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Born and raised in Knoxville, Iowa, Cherrie started out as a mechanical engineer. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z There was a small workbench at one end, and it was covered in little mechanical creatures made out of clockworks, and magic tricks of all shapes and sizes, which Hugo had made himself. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The signal he gave to the other two was a simple, mechanical wave. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The mechanical spider was about halfway across, swinging from bar to bar by shooting out metal web fiber. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The “finger” had a curious air of reciting by rote, as if he answered questions by the mechanical pressure of his brain pan, but without any enthusiasm whatever. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He opened the drawer and pulled out the blue mechanical mouse, which he unwrapped carefully. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z A mechanical wheezing sound comes from around her. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The sun stays longer each day now, climbing mechanical as a goat off the leaden horizon. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Not that she dissects and ponders the dusty mechanical bits of her miserable life’s curse. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z A young mule skinner named Milton Humason helped to transport mechanical and optical equipment, scientists, engineers and dignitaries up the mountain. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought bananas and a chimpanzee were more interesting than a loud, filthy mechanical contraption in the dark bowels of a ship. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s an Art Nouveau mechanical pencil. I bought it for Mrs. Patterson ages ago. She used to wear it around her neck.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Today’s Catholic elementary schools attempt a less mechanical approach to religious instruction. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “It might be a good idea if you came along too. The fish-centaurs said we’d need your help with something mechanical.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z No one would confuse the women who used mechanical calculators to process research data with the room-sized electronic devices that performed the same function. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Tucker leaned against the counter and clipped his mechanical pencil to the frames of his glasses. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The First words of my father’s novel are these: My dear child: When these immigrants arrive, they do not come as passengers carried in the bellies of mechanical whales. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z She wiped them off her mother with mechanical motions of her hands. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z There might have been a mechanical failure in the aircraft—or it could have been an error Olga made herself, perhaps failing to pull out of a dive. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He had managed to finish fixing the mechanical man. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z But the legacy of the mechanical philosophy was not simply modern versions of the argument from design, which are still widely defended in the form of Intelligent Design. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This is cleaner, more mechanical, a war waged through the air, invisibly, and the front lines are anywhere. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Orion’s mechanical pupils spiralled into tiny, glowing points. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Reyna studied the giant’s handsome, cruel face, his glowing mechanical eyes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z After so many weeks of natural sounds, these mechanical noises were strange and awesome and stunned me into silence. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z We are entitled to feel at home in Boyle’s universe, even if it is a mechanical apparatus; it is not clear that an immortal, immaterial soul has any business feeling at home in Descartes’ universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a mechanical sound like the ring of a holophone but a real bell with a metal clapper. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Their disgusting bodies heaved in and out with mechanical wheezes of breath. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Presumably—since he had sometimes seen her with oily hands and carrying a spanner—she had some mechanical job on one of the novel-writing machines. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The mechanical man hadn’t been writing ... it was drawing! The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z He stays in the air-conditioned cabin, steering, pressing the button for the mechanical arm, and listening to Motown. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z And across the room on a little silver perch was a mechanical bird. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Photographs taken by means of slanting light show clearly the roughening and raising of the fibres of the paper about the date due to mechanical erasure,” the examiner wrote. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z To make sure that all written records agree with the orthodoxy of the moment is merely a mechanical act. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He’s stopping to watch the little mechanical toys that the peddler winds up—the tumbling bear, the dog jumping, the seal spinning a ball on its nose. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Down below, in the engineering rooms, where mechanical systems controlled the ship, they found more bodies. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Cobblestones under their feet, the darkness of a roof above their heads, jangling mechanical music in the background. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He even hoped to build a mechanical model that would illustrate his theory of the tides. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He was huge and strong and great at figuring out mechanical things. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z In the quantum mechanical way of looking at the gravitational field, the force between two matter particles is pictured as being carried by a particle of spin 2 called the graviton. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes statues of the Virgin Mary and child appeared and the three kings paraded by them; or mechanical heralds emerged and blew on trumpets. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the Motor-HJ, boys trained on motorcycles and learned practical mechanical skills and traffic and car regulations. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Billy traveled in time, opened his eyes, found himself staring into the glass eyes of a jade green mechanical owl. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The mechanical man dipped the pen into the ink and began to write. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z In that respect, Boyle’s argument is a new and distinctively mechanical one. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Pacific Rim” is loaded with computer-generated imagery, but its soul is proudly mechanical. Movie Review: In ‘Pacific Rim,’ Pilots Inside Robots Face Alien Invaders 2013-07-11T12:00:01Z Many dinoflagellate species are bioluminescent and emit a blue-green light when subjected to mechanical disturbances such as waves, boats and swimmers. Ever wondered about animals that glow in the dark? 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z If it's more throwback than breakthrough, or if an air of the mechanical hovers around the entire enterprise, nothing this reviewer or anyone else says will matter an iota. Energetic 'Newsies' chock full of extras -- read all about it 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z A plumber arrived with backpacks of equipment, some of it ancient and mechanical, but most of it high-tech. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I won’t humor you anymore 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z These are printed in oil ink on canvas and push Warhol’s mechanical painting processes to new extremes. Art Review: ‘Regarding Warhol’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-09-13T21:37:57Z This strangely fascinating trove featured nautical and religious motifs, as well as spoons made from shells and animal horns, or boasting mechanical parts, such as miniature windmills with moving blades. A foodies’ tour of Paterson, N.J., the city (sort of) founded by Alexander Hamilton 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z “She had a really nice smile and a very pretty face,” recalls Franklin, a 28-year old government worker who is pursuing a master’s degree in mechanical engineering at George Washington University. On Love: Iliana Sanchez and Franklin Gonzales Like that mechanical bird, Catherine's love for Matthew is magical in its esotericism, beautiful in its intricacy and inspiring in its ability to weather strain and time. 'The Chemistry of Tears': the mournful mechanics of a broken heart 2012-05-16T18:45:09Z While an undergraduate mechanical engineering student at Princeton University, Mr. Frey, 23, studied bamboo and designed several bamboo racing bicycles. Noticed: Bamboo Bikes Grow in Popularity 2010-08-11T20:00:00Z The surrounding scene of hurried planting and mechanical puttering only adds to the impression that this is a cluster of great agricultural sheds. Louvre-Lens: helping a mining town shed its image 2012-12-05T15:11:46Z Made of scrap found in New Jersey junkyards, the massive work — 27 feet high and 23 feet in length — was supposed to be a mechanical display, sort of like a Rube Goldberg device. Banksy and the tradition of destroying art 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Beckett was fascinated and troubled by the mechanical reproduction, by the ways various recording machines both assuage and intensify the alienation of modern life. Review: ‘Notfilm’ Tells How Beckett and Keaton Collaborated 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z During the 1960s, Herbert Franke and Frieder Nake developed sparse geometric images by sending instructions from computers to simple printers or plotters, machines with mechanical arms to guide a pen across a screen or paper. Design: London Portrays Past and Future of Digital Art 2009-12-14T11:34:00Z This is the body as raw flesh and jutting bone, perhaps as unfeeling as the low, mechanical voice that later delivers an ominous excerpt from Mr. Krasnahorkai’s text. Jaro Vinarsky’s ‘Animalinside’ Explores Masculinity 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Don’t let his size fool you though–he’s a bounty hunter and a mechanical genius with a penchant for blowing things up. 10 Things You Need to Know Before Watching Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Notable among them was the late George Daniels, the inventor of the coaxial escapement in the 1970s, a mechanism that improved the performance of mechanical watches by virtually eliminating the need for lubrication. Today's Challenge: Improving the Escapement 2012-11-23T13:35:50Z The depressions produced are then filled with ink and moist paper is pressed onto the plate, using a mechanical printing press. The Renaissance origin of porn: Inside “I Modi,” the 16th-century sex manual masterpiece 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Basic mechanical models use a fan to force air through a filter to remove particles. What you need to know about air purifiers, including little evidence of health benefits 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z But all fit together, unifying the primeval and contemporary, organic and mechanical. In the Galleries: Creating objects of power Their eyes meet as he is rolled away to the intensive care unit for mechanical ventilation as his condition rapidly worsens. On the Front Lines of a Pandemic, ‘I Love You’ Can Mean ‘Goodbye’ 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z And mechanical horses are exactly what they seem: an ingenious response to mechanized warfare, invented and designed by tribal warriors used to fighting over great distances on the steppes. Writing a novel about Jews set in 1942—without Hitler: “Once you mention Hitler’s name, his mustache is in the room. The stakes change” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Absurd sounds that are more mechanical than human. At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Gego’s art is less transformation than salvation, both mechanical and sublime. Review: ‘Gego: Autobiography of a Line’ Highlights a Sculptor’s Kinetic Work 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z "Circus Galop" is a highly complex piece, evoking the chaos of the Big Top, written specially for mechanical pianolas, or player pianos. Pianist Hamelin breathes new life into "dead" composers 2013-11-14T08:05:00Z “There’s a trend right now in showcasing handmade pieces while moving away from something digital or mechanical,” she said. Sand Sculptures for a Beach Wedding 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Born in 1925 in the Chicago area, Mr. Pennebaker had no early plans to go into film; he studied mechanical and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then Yale. D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus’s Counterculture Archive 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z This opportunity may not seem significant to the cellphone-toting masses who think of mechanical wristwatches as anachronistic devices once used by their grandparents to tell time. Paul Newman’s Rare Rolex Has Auction Watchers Buzzing 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The two film installations are accompanied by clattering mechanical projectors. Paul Sietsema's first L.A. show of new Conceptual art was worth the 14-year wait 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The winery boasts modern conveniences like mechanical steam barrel washers and gravity-driven grape delivery from sorting table to tank. Argentina?s Napa Valley 2010-11-19T19:24:00Z He is curator of the Sanctuary’s museum and inventor of extraordinary mechanical devices, including a flying metal owl, which unfortunately calls to mind the annoying bird from Ray Harryhausen’s stop-action movie “Clash of the Titans.” Book World: ‘The Dead Lands’ by Benjamin Percy 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z “Up in Flames” has a boomy, mechanical beat, as well as a melody as tender as any the band has ever played. Arts & Leisure: Chris Martin of Coldplay Discusses ?Mylo Xyloto? 2011-10-13T16:00:17Z “The guy who brought a mechanical saw to cut the winged bull from Nimrud — it was awful to see.” Painting the Arab World, From Afar 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Train 68 was traveling from Montreal when the train experienced a "mechanical issue" just before 7:30 p.m., Amtrak train cars separate, stranding passengers for hours on Thanksgiving eve 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Not sure what happens should you get a call when on stage … Unlikely modern dance spectacle of the weekend Transport Exceptionnels – a duet between a dancer and a mechanical digger. From Inception to Emma Bunton, this week's winners and losers 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z The movies we watch today, by contrast, are rarely made through mechanical and photochemical processes, but with computer code, with strings of zeros and ones: bits. The Race to Save the Films We Love 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z In the long-ago-vanquished Etruscans, Lawrence found a vitality missing in the early 20th century’s “mechanical age,” in which he was fated to live. A case for D.H. Lawrence as a father of modern travel writing 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Some delays and stuff, but not mechanical sounding. Giorgio Moroder Is the Godfather of Modern Dance Music 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z But I had hopes that Mr. Izzard, a brilliant stand-up portraitist of human perversity, might give a jolt of shock therapy to an often glib and mechanical play. | 'Race': Eddie Izzard in David Mamet?s ?Race? 2010-07-01T02:01:00Z The firm’s reputation peaked in the 1950s, a decade or so before the quartz revolution decimated the mechanical watchmaking industry, driving scores of Swiss companies into bankruptcy. Special Report: Watches: A Living Museum of Watchmaking 2011-01-17T08:00:57Z Here, in this pleasantly leafy movie, this fine farm family, most beautifully dressed: See them eat, like mechanical dolls. Contemplating Art, and Its Sideshow 2010-06-15T12:00:00Z Avtipus Patents and Inventions has developed a mechanical face mask that would allow the wearer to open and close the mouth in order to eat food without having to remove it. Company creates mechanical face mask to allow wearers to eat without taking it off 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Tentative at first, she gathers speed and abandon after plucking a mechanical bird from beneath a nest of giant eggs, a suggestion of giving and receiving life. Review: In ‘Herstory of the Universe,’ Ancient Myths Are Brought to Life 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Rendered more regularly, they could appear mechanical, but every line is clearly hand-drawn. Review | In the galleries: Photos capture a fleeting moment, leave an indelible impression 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Apparently these cyborg St. Nicks were recalled because their mechanical innards were made of repurposed Department of Defense gadgetry that went haywire. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z They also expressed a basic aspect of Soviet ideology, providing egalitarian habitat for humanity — even if it was a humanity that couldn’t afford to complain about bad insulation, leaky windows, structural weaknesses and mechanical failures. The Monoliths of Bratislava 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z His pictures are highly animated, erotic verging on mechanical, with a strong feeling for the baroque and its cartoonish potential. At Mugler, Genius and Its Limits 2011-03-23T22:23:43Z Live radio—as opposed to the data-assisted, mechanical formulation of our tastes that streaming services often call “radio”—is an old and still surprisingly effective idea. Popcast: Apple Music and Beats 1 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z He was also interested in mechanical reproduction in which he typed groups of words over and over again in different arrangements. NY exhibit focuses on early career of Keith Haring 2012-03-25T00:46:05Z Armitage addresses these mechanical details matter-of-factly in his introduction—and he brings the same pragmatic approach to the question of whether or not the little girl of the poem ever existed. The Strange Power of a Medieval Poem About the Death of a Child 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z And last week, the house introduced its Connected Modular 45, which allows the wearer to switch between connected and mechanical modules, a choice it said ensures the watch is never outdated. Smartwatches at a Crossroads, and Some Analysts are Optimistic 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z In a parlor mechanical monkeys in embroidered costumes puff on cigarettes and perform dental surgery. Antiques: Victorian Collections Capture Worlds Under Glass 2013-06-13T20:01:05Z You don’t expect them to hold up their end of a conversation about art in the age of digital, or even mechanical, reproduction. Still Life: Flea Market Paintings as Art Discoveries 2012-08-28T16:24:10Z I don't see it all as being this kind of mechanical exercise. Skinemax meets "Twin Peaks"? Our wild interview on "Now Apocalypse," a totally bonkers show 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The ensemble tended to keep strict time, with several phrases that made the swan-maidens of Act II look alternately mechanical or martial. Dance Review | National Ballet of Cuba: ?Swan Lake? From the National Ballet of Cuba 2010-04-04T22:19:00Z Its trusses, beams and coiled wire supports are evidence of the incredible mechanical feats people achieved back in the high-ambition, low-tech days of the late 1800s. I love the Brooklyn Bridge. Walk across it and you will, too. 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The history of clocks, of course, starts with ancient sundials, then moves to the first mechanical clock in the year 723. The weird histories of four common household items 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z “It sort of looks like the inside of a mechanical rose.” Natalie Portman Makes Her Couture Debut at Dior 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z The division between the "fine arts" and the lower "mechanical arts" came later and, with that separation, and the post-romantic downgrading of science, much was lost. The Arts of Industry in the Age of?Enlightenment by Celina Fox | Book review 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z But when he waxed romantic about mechanical projectors, the manager, Tom Fink, reminded him of how much maintenance the old dogs required. Resort Towns Face a Last Picture Show 2012-08-24T22:27:29Z Due to a mechanical issue, the plane made a stopover at San Francisco International Airport, where the alleged mishap reportedly happened, reported TravelPulse. Family claims Alaska Airlines 'lost' unaccompanied daughter, 13, during layover 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Amy Lin’s obsessive abstract drawings evoke the biological, the chemical, the mechanical and, at times, the purely imaginary. Spring Arts Preview: In the galleries 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Matt and I had flown from Washington, D.C., to Malawi toting 200 pounds of gear — drills, bolts, hammers, ropes, carabiners, mechanical ascenders, harnesses — in the hopes of establishing a new long route. Is Rock Climbing the Future of Tourism in Malawi? 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z If, however, the flight was canceled for operational reasons — what’s referred to as a “mechanical” delay — then it does, indeed provide for an overnight hotel stay and meal vouchers. Help! American Airlines canceled my flight but won’t cover my expenses 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Others saw their mechanical royalties falling off a cliff. Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z Our time is too sacred to be bused to a plane, only to be bused back when a mechanical difficulty is discovered. Goodbye to Gate 35X, cursed portal to the rest of America 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z There are two main types of exfoliation: chemical and mechanical. Exfoliation Tips for the Best Skin Ever 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z He did Cubism, all right — paring down already streamlined forms by Gris, making Léger’s “mechanical” compositions even more machinelike. Art Review: At Gagosian, Lichtenstein After the Funny Papers 2010-06-10T21:57:00Z The car with which Toad runs amok is the harbinger of mechanical, industrial change in the bucolic land. Dance Review: ‘The Wind in the Willows,’ Danced in London 2013-12-24T21:45:19Z Both those parts were taken on by Ms. Valk, the group’s longtime leading lady and its most brilliant exponent of acting as a disembodied chain of mechanical mannerisms. Review: ‘Cry, Trojans!’ Is the Wooster Group’s Take on ‘Troilus and Cressida’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Bruce was the name given to the three mechanical predators built to simulate the great white shark at the heart of the story. Review: A Bloodless Postscript to ‘Jaws’ in ‘The Shark Is Broken’ 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Halley VI is a line of four-legged mechanical beasts, seven blue and one red, like a desert caravan gone astray or a figment of science fiction. Halley VI research station, Antarctica – review 2013-02-10T08:00:03Z The staring lens is at once monstrous and comical — a mechanical Cyclops merged with R2-D2. 'Apparitions' at the Hammer explores low-tech art in a high-tech world 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z At first electrifying, Mike’s stage performances become increasingly predictable and then almost routine, as we begin to see beyond the seductive performance to the repetitive, almost mechanical movements underneath. Magic Mike: The Sexy, Sad Lies We Tell Ourselves 2012-06-28T20:15:18Z A lot of these songs appear like bloody, mechanical effigies of herself. Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel...: Painful, Raw Parts That Form Something Beautiful 2012-06-18T16:24:15Z There, she must battle roving mechanical eyes and murderous keys to steal food — i.e., socks — to feed her offspring. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Act II presents Hoffmann’s tale about the wondrous mechanical doll Olympia, the invention of Spalanzani, an eccentric physicist, who presents the doll as his daughter. Music Review: San Francisco Offers Stravinsky and Offenbach 2013-06-24T21:37:07Z Driving a car too fast without bumping into things requires dexterity and mechanical understanding. I love not driving, and instinct tells me I'm a safer man for it 2012-12-23T00:07:58Z When he was asked in a 1970 interview about this apparently mechanical aspect of his music, Mr. Reich responded with an unexpected analogy. Steve Reich at 80: Still Plugged In, Still Plugging Away 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Willis was known for his mechanical innovations as well. Gordon Willis, ‘Godfather’ Cinematographer, Dies at 82 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z We chatted amid the echo-y mechanical hiss of the still house, which has a soaring ceiling and four squat yet grand copper stills. The Whisky Chronicles 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z The bad news is … they’re no longer protected by those giant, mechanical walls either. Here's the Trailer for 'Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials' 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Is it any wonder Roman soldiers applied the name onager to the mechanical catapult they used for besieging walled compounds? Roman floor mosaics with violent scenes pack a punch at Getty Villa 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z I spent countless hours, belly on the floor, struggling with my math homework, pressing mechanical pencil to ruler. How ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Helps to Heal Generational Trauma 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z At one point, Daniel Phillips seemed to ape the aloofness of the recorded sounds with mechanical runs of tiny high notes. Review: The Orion Quartet Plays Kirchner Disguised as Bartok 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Sound effects by Preshish Moments emphasized a blurring of mechanical and animal qualities. Dance Review: Heather Kravas and Jeremy Wade in Solo Works - Review 2011-10-11T00:20:31Z “There are mechanical and good body patterns or healthy body patterns,” Shyshkarova said. What Does a Dancing Body Feel Like in Ukraine? ‘I Am a Gun.’ 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z “I could imagine that you would rather have your name on a beautiful brand-new gallery than in the mechanical room in the basement.” In an age of worsening fires and floods, museums are reinventing themselves — and their mechanical rooms 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Neil and the other astronauts have the best procedures in place to confront the prospects of death because of mechanical failure. Author of Neil Armstrong biography "First Man": He understood "the place of humankind in the cosmos" 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Earlier this month, film crews battled heavy winds and rain to film scenes involving a mechanical shark on a pier off the Georgia coast. Film crews transform Atlanta into vintage New York 2013-05-10T16:48:09Z Perry opened her show riding into the stadium in Glendale, Ariz., on a mechanical lion, and closed it by flying above the spectators on a fake platform styled after a shooting star. Katy Perry's Super Bowl Halftime Show, Reviewed 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z The piece opens with driving and increasing mechanical noise, like a giant sewing machine about to chew up the theater. Dance Review: Repetitions Build Drama With Rhythm and Gesture 2011-06-14T23:56:46Z Fancy a ride on a giant mechanical snail? The crazy world of Burning Man – festival survival guide 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Almost all the conversation among the adolescents comes across as flat and mechanical, no matter how many “cools” are inserted. 2010-02-11T23:49:00Z Photograph: Helen Maybanks Too static, too visually blaring, too short on tunes, too mechanical, too unimaginative. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – review 2013-07-01T06:00:08Z Speaking of technology, mechanical wristwatches in general have made a surprising comeback with millennials, kids of the cellphone age. Patek Philippe to Open a Pop-Up Museum in New York 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Water that Watney, with training in botany and mechanical engineering, would have to come up with somehow. ‘The Martian’ Author Andy Weir Brings His Nerd Thriller Into the Mainstream 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z First, the architects excavated the plot, tucking the garage, mechanical rooms, and gym belowground. A Modernist Dream House In Southern California 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Purely in a mechanical sense it fits, in that it's a series created by a woman, Stacy Rukeyser, whose eyes presumably work. "Sex/Life": Netflix's best worst raunchy ride of this summer is 50 shades of oy vey 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Nearly two dozen types of responsibilities and concerns demand his attention, including licensing and inspections, maintenance, mechanical systems, housekeeping and communications. Behind the scenes at a B&B: The joys — and challenges — of being an innkeeper 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z If so, “Underwater,” starring Kristen Stewart as a mechanical engineer working on a deep sea drilling facility, debuts on HBO Saturday. New this week: Megan Thee Stallion, ‘Big Sky’ & Dolly Parton 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z At times, the group seemed to fall in lock step, cohering around a mechanical Minimalism. Review: A Portrait Reveals a Composer With a Dramatic Edge 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The coils jangled around on her forehead like a mechanical failure. Joe Dunthorne short story: The Shapes We Made 2012-12-23T00:06:34Z Introduced while picking the same kind of lock he opened back in 1971 is Keith Forsyth, who nonchalantly comments, "It's not hard to do, it's a mechanical skill like anything else." '1971' recalls burglary that birthed America's 'big brother' 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z A crime wave of unprecedented ferocity is sweeping the city, and in desperation the local constabulary goes mechanical, turning to what's called "the world's first robotic police force." Oddly, the robot is the least robotic thing about 'Chappie' 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Some of the more mechanical aspects of the comedy diminish the work’s perceptiveness. 'Small Mouth Sounds': Playwright Bess Wohl's off-Broadway sleeper arrives at the Broad Stage 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Michele Banks depicts the body indirectly through the mechanical pulses of EEG and EKG tests. In the galleries: Getting ‘Personal’ at King Street 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z His heartiness and vigor were boundless, and, like a college athlete, he scampered up and down the planks of the mechanical set that dominates Robert Lepage’s production. Two Major Met Opera Arrivals, Just 15 Hours Apart 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Together, especially in their choreographed dance sequences, so earnest and mechanical and unabashedly aspirational, they produce some of the finest physical comedy on TV. Middle school was hell. "PEN15" makes me (almost) want to go back 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z One answer is offered by Tabor Robak’s found-object sculpture, which riffs on those arcade games in which players use a mechanical claw in an attempt to retrieve such inexpensive treasures as stuffed animals. Review | In the galleries: ‘Focus Group’ takes a playful approach to life and death 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The method produces objects with consistent mechanical qualities—which is an issue for layer-based printing—and allows for a broader range of materials. Carbon3D Introduces a Layerless Method of 3-D Printing 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Anyway, this song from another planet drifted in under the duvet; ethereal opening chimes segueing into an eerie, almost mechanical beat; and then a bizarre, baffling middle-eight. Old music: Julian Cope – Charlotte Anne 2012-11-08T12:44:42Z His father retired as a mechanical engineer from Allied Systems Company, a heavy equipment manufacturer in Sherwood, Ore. Ashira Greene, William Beutler 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z He extolled "moral as well as material truth"; the "imagination associative", he told his enthusiastic young readers in Gower Street, "was the grandest mechanical power that the human intelligence possesses". Saints and sinners 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z I haven't experienced a mechanical problem aboard the train, to my knowledge. Amtrak files 'long overdue' complaint over CN delays 2012-02-13T13:09:00Z Gone is the clumsy, antiquated bother of live-action filmmaking: the construction of sets, the waiting for a perfect sky, the glitches in a mechanical shark, that 43rd exasperating take to get an actor’s facial expression. Spielberg's 3-D Cartoon Adventure: It's Tintinastic! 2011-12-21T18:03:02Z “Slave to the Rhythm,” about a woman enslaved by marriage and job, trades the demo’s mechanical beat for a jittery double-time barrage that ricochets against the vocal and makes Jackson’s percussive angst even more dramatic. Michael Jackson, the Remix 2014-05-07T16:08:06Z Greer was born in the suburbs of Detroit, the only child of her parents, a mechanical engineer and hospital administrator. Judy Greer on Arrested Development: 'I get flashed all the time. It's mostly men' 2012-12-27T19:00:00Z Keep in mind, as you travel aloft, that what is so dismissively referred to as “fly-over country” is the birthplace of the mechanical geniuses who made the term possible. Book World: 5 stories to relish even with your eyes closed 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Participants can take a ride on a mechanical bull on Friday and Saturday and purchase country-style food and beverages on all three days; Sunday’s event will feature family-friendly activities. Spare Times for Sept. 19-25 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z And the only component in a mechanical watch which is always in the same vertical position is the oscillating weight or rotor, which, thanks to gravity, winds at the same time, the movement.” Special Report: Watches: Cartier Looks for Recognition in Watchmaking 2011-01-16T22:20:03Z Yet what felt almost mechanical became more poignant when one dancer, Na Ji-hun, was left alone, standing his ground. Review: A South Korean Troupe’s Physical Risks and Daunting Tasks 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z There’s a mechanical symmetry to the way the characters’ opposing qualities fit so neatly together, in much the way their bodies soon do. Review: At ‘Camp Siegfried,’ a Nazi Summer of Love on Long Island 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z In “ROBOT,” which begins performances on Tuesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House, seven robots share the stage with eight dancers and a 10-piece mechanical orchestra, activated by the dancers. In ‘ROBOT,’ Blanca Li Uses Machines to Celebrate the Body 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Lined up neatly together, the drawings also suggest Warhol and other modernists who embraced mechanical reproduction. In the galleries: Unfinished works at Target Gallery 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Soon he adapted Roy Lichtenstein’s Ben Day dots, but typically in a rougher, more mechanical version that suggested several trips through a photocopier. Sigmar Polke, Whose Sly Works Shaped Contemporary Painting, Dies at 69 2010-06-12T02:59:00Z His father retired as a mechanical engineering consultant from Lummus Global, an oil and gas engineering services company in Bloomfield, N.J. Esther Eng, Kevin Tsang 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z In place of the transporting, narrative quality of the Schubert original, Mr. Martynov focuses on the music’s mechanical underpinnings and spins them into a haunting, hypnotic meditation. Music Review: Kronos Quartet at Zankel Hall 2012-02-29T22:59:59Z “Watching the media pounce on this story like greyhounds chasing mechanical rabbits has been painful, but also deeply familiar,” wrote Sean Illig on Vox. Perspective | The media is helping Trump turn the bogus ‘Obamagate’ into the 2020 version of Clinton’s emails 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z “Animation’s so mechanical. It’s all technical. There’s no spontaneity, apart from when you’re recording the actors. But with Eddie’s part, we actually expanded it.” Eddie Izzard in Cannes: 'I wasn’t channelling cat, per se' 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z It’s mechanical and sensual, rigorously formal and violently emotional. ‘Rosas Danst Rosas’ Revisits a Choreographer’s Early Work 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z On a clear day, the view from Vancouver’s Waterfront Station is Instagram fodder: craggy mountains and glittering ocean framed by mechanical orange giraffes at the nearby port. Want fantastic Chinese food in North America? Head to Vancouver. 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Gradually his organic sculptures became subsumed by the mechanical. Peter Thursby obituary 2011-02-20T18:03:36Z Whether the forms Kuijper depicts appear organic or mechanical, they’re placed on stage sets that teasingly highlight the theatricality of both realist and surrealist painting. In the galleries: A debate between red and blue at Charles Krause Her father was a mechanical engineer, her mother a piano teacher. Lola Astanova, Julie Andrews and Donald Trump at Carnegie 2012-01-18T23:05:33Z Mr. Clug also takes a robot voice from the band’s album “OK Computer” as the excuse for a mechanical solo for Juliet, adroit but gratuitous. Dance Review: ?Radio and Juliet? at Skirball Center - Review 2011-10-24T22:02:11Z In the past 30 years Castelfidardo has excelled in other sectors, like mechanics, mechanical electronics and woodworking. Italian Town Corners the Market for High-End Accordions 2011-07-01T20:30:06Z I simply have an additional mechanical thing called a tape recorder. Our most dangerous hike 2012-05-21T01:00:00Z “Indignation” is book-ended by brief scenes of the Korean War that lend it structure and a tragic dimension, but they feel too mechanical and tacked on to pack the required punch. Review: ‘Indignation’ Offers a Precisely Rendered, and Repressive, 1950s America 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z I am the worst thing for anything mechanical or on the computer. Valentino's new runway is the ballet stage 2012-09-19T17:30:18Z Earlier this month, three people were reportedly hospitalized and released after an apparent mechanical malfunction at the Skyliner attraction trapped riders for hours. Disney World’s Skyliner ride touts 1 million riders in first month despite malfunction mishap 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z The following year, Ms. Smith, a native of Columbia, Md., earned a master’s degree in industrial organizational psychology, and Mr. Huffer, who is from Garland, Texas, received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering. Cheering With (and for) Each Other Through the Years 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Tornare of Zenith Watches said Chinese male buyers 20 to 35 years old were still willing to pay for mechanical watches, often at prices of $5,000 to $12,000. A Shopping Spree in Hong Kong: The Past and the Future 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Hovering above, the addition’s bulging baby blue facade looks like a big mechanical cloud that has settled into one of the studio’s empty back lots. Architecture Review: Immersed In Images And an Age Of Blurred Boundaries 2011-01-13T22:01:16Z Mr. Hobson played a mechanical rendition of the Chopin, seemingly determined to banish even the slightest whiff of sentimentality. Music Review: Chopin and Schumann, at 200, and Their Inspirations 2010-08-25T21:13:00Z Antoine Catala, a French artist working in New York, has made previous work consisting of drones that fly around a space, analyzing the images in it and reciting descriptions of them in a mechanical voice. New Museum’s Triennial Is All About Being Wired 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Against the side of a building under a plastic tarp, I saw a man welding old mechanical gears into weight lifting sets. Navigating Sometimes Chaotic, Always Fascinating Addis Ababa 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Executed with discipline that borders on mechanical, they couldn’t be better suited to a world according to George. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, he grew to think that the Judaism of the synagogues was fossilized and mechanical, and he defined himself in a 1967 interview as “a priest of a catacomb religion that is underground, just beginning.” Review | How spirituality shaped Leonard Cohen 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the big-hitting commercial alternatives, golden delicious and red delicious, were and are so dull that, but for the mechanical movement of your jaw, you could forget that you are eating one. How to eat: apples 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z He settled on the more mechanical, laconic look produced by the rolling truck. Ed Ruscha’s stunning Sunset Strip art project lets you tour its full length, east to west — and back in time 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “It’s a big challenge involving biomechanics, mechanical design, the flow structures and indeed materials.” 'Underwater bicycle' submarines race it out in UK pool 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z As a result, the clash of outlooks that takes place is as mechanical as the film's inane romcom subplot. Why The Dictator isn't Great 2012-05-16T14:38:23Z His expertise in techniques including puppetry and mechanical and electronic engineering allowed him to breathe life into the most fantastic movie creatures of the 1970s and ’80s. Carlo Rambaldi, Movie Maestro of Special Effects, Dies at 86 2012-08-11T00:01:55Z The Roots give this album shape, playing in a manner far less mechanical than blatant soul revivalists like the Daptone Records crew. Music Review: Putting Ballads Aside for Soul That?s More Soothing Than Sweaty 2010-09-24T22:07:00Z In 2016, after Ms. Jimenez got her doctorate, Rise joined Food-X, an accelerator in New York City, and completed plans for a mechanical process that could speed flour production. From Brewery to Bakery: A Flour That Fights Waste 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z She made drawings and collages of people with gear-filled insides — a way of visualizing the hidden workings of the body and perhaps imagining a mechanical means of warding off death. Lynn Hershman Leeson: The Artist Is Prescient 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Her husband, Atlas Barber, 35, buys the cars and does the mechanical repairs and bodywork, while she handles the stripping and painting. The Demo Derby Queen of Tennessee 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Seventy-four-year-old Sister Mary Joseph is known as the mechanical nun who fixes what she can and calls in repairmen for the rest, often to teach her how to make the repair herself next time. Secrets of the convent: Will millennials become nuns? 2013-12-15T19:00:00Z The child is also fascinated by mechanical marvels like clocks, metal robots and moving pictures. Hugo: Scorsese's Magnificent Dream Machine 2011-11-22T20:39:54Z Passengers reportedly boarded the flight on time, but a mechanical issue with the cargo door caused the initial delay. Delta flight carrying nearly 200 delayed 18 hours at New York's JFK: report 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z I just keep chasing it and filling it in because if I don't think that way, then I'm getting mechanical about it and I'll never get it done because I'm in my own head. ‘¡Hola Papi!’ advice columnist John Paul Brammer is ready to show his true self 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z The inversions between men and women entailed by the notion of Birthday are humorous but mostly mechanical, worth one laugh but not two. Birthday; Kiss Me Kate; Get Stuff Break Free – review 2012-06-30T23:05:59Z The green Jedi master Yoda is represented by a dark green dial on the front of the watch with a translucent light-green back that lets the wearer glimpse the mechanical movement. Seiko Honors 'Star Wars' With Limited Edition Watches 2012-11-22T13:30:16Z These custom touches and the promise of privacy, delivered with mechanical efficiency, make this table one of the Met’s most seductive decorative objects. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z In essence “L-Carrier” is an installation of piano wires from 3 to 70 feet long, amplified and struck with mechanical beaters triggered by input from a remote Web page hosted by Turbulence, a Web-art initiative. Music Review: Eli Keszler’s ‘L-Carrier’ at Eyebeam in Chelsea 2012-06-10T22:00:27Z SUN All-women's cycling experience benefiting domestic violence programs, 10-, 25-, 42- and 62-mile scenic rides, stocked rest stops, mechanical support, 7 a.m. Community calendar 2011-09-15T00:19:04Z The skin grows on a tiny lattice framework, they said, causing it to fracture under mechanical stress when the animals move. For African bush elephants, wrinkles are cool 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Quattro table clock, the first of its clocks to be powered by a sophisticated mechanical movement. Finely Made Clocks Emerge as Connoisseur Favorites 2012-11-21T16:30:23Z As one of my cyclist friends quipped, no trip is complete without at least one mechanical problem. How to take an overnight trip with your two-wheeled vehicle 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z They stumble on a hive-organized, mechanical species with formidable destructive abilities. Review | Stanislaw Lem has finally gotten the translations his genius deserves 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The Qantas flight landed at a military base in New Zealand after suffering from mechanical issues. Qantas passengers stuck in sweltering heat for hours after being diverted to military base 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z Painters protested that photography was nothing more than “a series of completely mechanical manipulations.” ‘A History of Pictures’ — from the cave to the iPhone 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z People talk to me about the rise of hip hop in Africa, too, but nothing that mechanical will last. Hugh Masekela - what I'm thinking about ... a crisis for African culture 2013-03-12T07:01:10Z Ms. Mohamed, a 17-year-old from Wisconsin who is studying mechanical engineering, was a semifinalist in the Miss Wisconsin Teen USA pageant and later went on to represent her state in Miss Teen World America. ‘I Am Here to Prove You Wrong’ 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Lightning strikes set off a cascade of mechanical failures at Con Edison that plunged virtually the entire city into darkness. That night the lights went out 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z But the school’s climate of experimentation—and in particular its animating interest in the tension between handcrafted and mechanical forms of production—would eventually push him to explore the emerging medium of photography. The Little-Known Photo Collages of Josef Albers 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z The latest works at the Grey, from the mid-1980s, look more mechanical than architectural. Art Review: ‘Alice Aycock Drawings’ at Grey Art Gallery and Parrish Art Museum 2013-06-13T22:08:49Z Hugo's attempts to repair the machine bring him to another orphan, Isabelle, who lives in the care of an old man who keeps the station's toyshop, from whom Hugo steals mechanical parts for his enterprise. Brian Selznick: how Scorsese's Hugo drew inspiration from his magical book 2012-02-11T19:26:44Z Even when the mechanical plotting turns chaotic, it’s a very orderly mess. | 'The Bilbao Effect' and 'The Glass House': Skewering ?Starchitects? at Clurman and Center for Architecture 2010-06-02T21:58:00Z Humans attend “capping” ceremonies around the time of their fifteenth birthdays, in which long mechanical tentacles swoop down from the Tripods to yank eager teens skyward, one by one, into their interiors. An Early Dystopian Trilogy About Resistance—and What Comes After 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z He said, “I want to be like that kid in ‘Chop Shop,’ when he closes the garage door and locks it with a screwdriver, just that mechanical action.” ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Ramin Bahrani Goes Big 2013-04-22T17:01:09Z Cheadle has held the role, of an air force pilot who gets a mechanical suit to fight crime in, since 2010. ‘It has to be hot. It has to be creative’: Don Cheadle on his 10-year quest to play Miles Davis 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Just replace "ninjas" with "killer monks, mechanical bees, a deceptively mild-mannered elderly assassin, a Genghis-Khan-like fiend, a deeply sinister government agency, and a clock repairman who starts channeling his gangster father." 'Angelmaker': A clock repairman tries to stop the world's end 2012-03-14T19:55:04Z And then we start walking through them in a mechanical fashion. “I executed 62 people. I’m sorry”: An executioner turned death-penalty opponent tells all 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Adding silicium parts to a mechanical movement is like spending millions in trying to increase the efficiency of steam engines in the 21st century.” Special Report: Watches: A New Material Gains in Fine Watchmaking 2010-03-19T15:50:00Z Now, stuck in this one-sided game, I slowly realized that getting so worked up about avoiding him had nothing to do with my lack of mechanical ability. He liked to mow his own lawn. Until the ‘helpful’ neighbor came along The show’s impressions of thick heat and palpable humidity are only intensified by the frequent presence of mechanical fans, which propel in ambient, rotten wafts of surrealist noir and sultry Southern Gothic. How the “Sharp Objects” Finale Sums Up the Show’s Excellent Feel-Badness 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z In two nights, I only saw one bull rider last a full eight seconds; when I attempted a turn atop a mechanical bull, I went airborne after two. A Muslim American’s Homecoming: Cowboys, Country Music, Chapatis 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z He interacted with amp feedback to turn the guitar's usual "pluckiness" into anything from mechanical growls to uncannily vocal timbres, to other-worldly sustained flute sounds. Jeff Beck: The unorthodox techniques that made him such a unique guitarist 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z But then it was a little bit of this and that — some Mozart for mechanical organ, two short Schumann fugues, the first movement from Widor's Fifth Organ Symphony. The proof is in: The pipe organ is still the king of instruments 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z And the direction, too, feels languid, almost mechanical, with rote terrors and tones robbed from horror movies past. ‘You Should Have Left’ Review: This Haunted House Is Familiar 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z It’s the best role I’ve had — mechanical acting’s a plus for the part that I play. Style Invitational Week 1463: Fork over some (new) spoonerisms 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Not only was production about to begin without a completed script but the mechanical shark wasn't cooperating. Carl Gottlieb took a bit out of 'Jaws' script and created a monster hit 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Listen to the drummer Alex Leonard: For long stretches, he hits only snare and toms in mechanical patterns, and he rarely strikes an unclenched cymbal above medium force. Review: Protomartyr’s ‘The Agent Intellect’ Builds a Monument to Tension 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Ostensibly viewed through a “neutral” mechanical eye recording things-as-they-occur, the limits of the camera’s frame are nonetheless shaping what we see in a very particular way. Missouri activists vs. the press is still a story about race: This is what happens when black students can’t trust the media 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Bear that in mind next time someone tells you that Mr. Child, whose cerebral tough-guy thrillers all follow the same basic rules, is just one more genre type repeating himself in a mechanical way. Review: In ‘Make Me’ Lee Child Adds Another Layer to Jack Reacher 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Brain death combined with organ harvesting is the opposite of cutting off mechanical support. ArtsBeat: Dick Teresi Talks About the Line Between Life and Death 2012-04-12T18:04:38Z Another requirement was that its movement be mechanical. Watches That Connect With a History of Exploration 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z If you arrive late by 10 minutes to one thing and 30 minutes to another, the problem is likely mechanical. Here's How You Can Stop Being Late All the Time 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z But the show also had, inevitably, that mechanical quality of a bad dream being enacted. | Fashion Review: In Paris, Ovations Where Merited 2011-03-05T00:36:15Z I wonder if present-day Delores has by now been upgraded/downgraded from mechanical to organic? ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Dancers wearing short shorts — known locally as batty-riders — ground their hips with mechanical precision. Jamaica Kincaid’s Antigua 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Three years later, in a work called “Twenty-Four/Seven,” Mr. Wendel harvested electricity from the hands of a clock on a Stuttgart church by installing a dynamo that converted its mechanical energy. An Electric Temple of Culture Fires Up 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z But there were jubilant, saucy dances, too, raw alternatives to more mechanical commercial interpretations to pop songs. Dance Review: ‘La Substance, but in English’ Tweaks Consumerism 2014-01-13T23:29:50Z Her father, a mechanical engineer, was an executive at Western Electric whose job took the family to different cities. Sarah Charlesworth, Artist of Deconstructed Photographs, Dies at 66 2013-07-01T00:20:45Z “It must have been wonderful when the Romans came there. Now it is all villas,” he wrote a century ago, adding, “Everywhere stinks of mechanical money-pleasure.” Under the Crushing Weight of the Tuscan Sun 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z The well-worn space — a former Arnold Constable & Company department store, occupied by the library since 1972 — will need “a complete renovation and replacement of all its mechanical systems,” he added. Library Reveals Details and Costs of Upgrade Plan 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z Was it because of the surgery/rehab or the mechanical changes? After ‘Moneyball,’ Tabitha Soren kept shooting. The results are stunning. 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z But the offset press — and, later, inkjet printers — fueled his fascination with using new mechanical forms to recreate photographic images. Richard Benson, Photographer and Printer, Dies at 73 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z None of the mechanical dialogue that clogs so much narrative now. Raised from the Ground by José Saramago – review 2012-12-26T08:00:10Z Mazzoli’s “Forgiveness Machine,” to be played “mechanical and heartbreaking,” grinds in the extreme registers of the piano. My Father’s Death, an Envelope of Cash, a Legacy in Music 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Bicycles and cars I hate because the shapes are so mechanical, and I hate drawing straight lines or perfect circles. Drawing lines: Q&A with Dinosaur Cove illustrator Mike Spoor 2013-02-15T12:12:10Z But this album is far more mechanical than that one. Critic’s Notebook: One Direction Rides Boy Band Wave With ‘Take Me Home’ 2012-11-14T17:42:27Z At its essence, the blast beat is a rapid 16th-note alternation between kick drum and snare — BOOM-CRACK-BOOM-CRACK-BOOM-CRACK-BOOM-CRACK — often performed with mechanical ruthlessness. The joy of drumming, with Liturgy’s Greg Fox 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z What greater emotional torture, after all, for an intensity addict, than his dull gaze and mechanical speech? 'Homeland' Recap: Carrie Takes on the Men 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z The sheriff said experts are analyzing the snowcat “for any mechanical failure and why it started to roll.” Jeremy Renner ‘too messed up now to type’ after 7-ton snowplow runs him over 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z The bride’s father, a mechanical engineer, retired as a projects director on construction of pulp and paper mills for Iyinisiw Management, an engineering firm in British Columbia. Mayesha Alam, David Crockett Jr. 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z It means gallantly turning down half-hearted offers of perfunctory, mechanical sex from someone too tired to contemplate anything else, and then finding a way, five minutes later, to say that you've changed your mind. Tim Dowling's guide to long-term love 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Fleming's greatest book sees James as less of a killing machine, more of a nervous wreck, sedating himself with murder, hard booze and mechanical sex. Tony Parsons' top 10 troubled males in fiction 2010-05-26T12:22:00Z She graduated from Harvard and received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Mumu Xu, Joseph Borson 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z But it fit Roberts’s recollection that the women were left at his base while the helicopter returned to base to address a mechanical issue. After 50 years, the mystery of these Vietnam War photos of ‘Donut Dollies’ is solved 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z She played basketball for her Catholic high school, earned a master’s in mechanical engineering and once worked in the Gulf of Mexico oilfields. For American Muslims, Choosing to Wear the Veil Poses Challenges 2010-06-11T23:37:00Z “They’re really toys, and they move in a very weird and beautiful way, just very mechanical and eerie,” she said. Laurie Anderson’s Wall-to-Wall Summer 2013-06-14T22:30:44Z Unfortunately, mechanical drives last only about five to 10 years with normal wear and tear. What to do if all your computer files go poof 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Like a replicant, his synths were mechanical imitations of an organic orchestra — but, as Scott noted, they gave “Blade Runner” its soul. How to compete with the original ‘Blade Runner’ score: Pay homage to it 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Although less of a revelation than the Orange Tree's sublime Taking Steps, this production reminds us that we still undervalue Ayckbourn's ability to mix mechanical skill and disquieting truth. Bedroom Farce | Theatre reivew 2010-04-04T21:10:00Z Surely no amount of mechanical "technique" learned from the internet can replace experience? Back in the game: dating in your 50s 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Listening to the CVR, he considers that the crash could be a terrorist attack or a mechanical problem. "Black Box" filmmaker on making a plane crash thriller that requires you to listen closely 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z There are how-to videos on product application, if watching men apply creams to their faces while a mechanical voice recites product features gets you going. Critical Shopper: MenScience Opens Flagship Store in New York 2013-01-08T22:21:00Z Or was it a cruelly mechanical confection, a spiritless mess designed to feed the senses, but with little to offer at a deeper level? You review: Iron Man 2 2010-05-04T11:23:00Z United Airlines confirmed to Fox News that the flight was forced to return to Denver International Airport due to a mechanical issue with one of the engines. Airplane engine violently shakes midflight in terrifying footage 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z You say everything three times in a row, almost in a mechanical way. ‘Marvin’s Room’ Moves to Broadway With Women Front and Center 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z More often than not, his compositions are steeped in authentic, subliminal feeling that is the opposite of mechanical. Michael Friedman, a Man of Many Voices and a Gift for Prophecy 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z “Modern watches still don’t hold the romance of the golden age of adventure that their mechanical forebears did,” Mr. Heston said. A Personal Trainer You Can Wear on Your Wrist 2011-12-09T14:55:29Z Part of it was to create material with her where she would present herself in a less formulaic, mechanical fashion, to tease out some kind of humanity from the candidate. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Brian Selznick’s books are full of strange cabinets, natural wonders and mechanical men. D.C. library celebrates author and illustrator Brian Selznick 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z For the serious baker, the book’s mechanical precision will lead to perfect results, from “Irish cream scones” to “brandy snap cannoli.” 15 New Cookbooks for Fall 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The mechanical action of the key springing up would lift the finger back into place. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z Though littered with four-letter words, “Season” has a clean, mechanical structure in which revelations arrive like well-run trains at a station. | 'That Championship Season': The Champs Reunite, Bearing the Nation?s Scars 2011-03-07T03:01:04Z My father was a brilliant inventor who turned his mechanical genius onto his own psyche in an effort to overcome decades of unrelenting nightmares, depression and fear. My Holocaust survivor parents never talked about it — and their silence didn't protect me 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z By overly relying on jump scares, "The Nun" uses a mechanical approach toward instilling fear rather than a more profound understanding of terror. Why is a mediocre movie like “The Nun” such a hit? 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z At the right of the stage is another remnant of old-time fairgrounds, a mechanical fortunetelling machine. Review: ‘Ride the Cyclone,’ About Teenagers, and Angst, in Purgatory 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z In this show, which in April inaugurated the new Kids Kabaret series at the Metropolitan Room, he incorporates handmade props like his “suitcase machine” and a mechanical monkey, Marcel. Spare Times: For Children, for June 5-11 2013-07-04T18:46:51Z “And all the time that was taken up by that mechanical act is freed to think.” Emory University Saves Rushdie?s Digital Data 2010-03-15T22:06:00Z On the other hand, planes are subject to human and mechanical error, so sometimes they falter spectacularly before an unblinking camera. Flights of Fancy: 10 Great Airplane Movies 2013-08-12T09:45:58Z But Friel's artistry turns what might be a mechanical device into something more complex by constantly shuffling the two roles. Philadelphia, Here I Come! – review 2012-08-01T14:09:54Z While studying mechanical engineering at Stanford University, he dreamed about a career designing racecars. Film: Cyberspace Gamble 2010-12-04T23:03:00Z How about that Nepal Airlines 757 that sat idled with stubborn mechanical problems on the tarmac at the airport in Katmandu in 2007? On the Road: ?Titanic Awards? Catalogs the Misery of Travel 2010-05-18T01:40:00Z Even in more experimental stories, we often sniff authorial intent: the mechanical elephant who comes to life and is very strict and mean and against abortion? “The Verificationist”: Donald Antrim’s unsung masterpiece 2012-06-17T16:00:00Z The narrative, which is enjoyable even when it tootles along with mechanical efficiency, follows a three-act structure and detonates the party scene at the end of Act II. Books of The Times: Blending Tea and Hearts 2010-02-22T07:01:00Z The golden age of pinball was, the museum tells us, from the 1940s through the ’60s — roughly when these electrical and mechanical contraptions reflected the cutting edge of gaming. Museum Review: The Old Bing, Bing, Bing, at Full Tilt 2011-06-30T18:07:38Z What starts out as "just one beer" - ha ha - becomes many beers, and shots, and a mechanical bull ride, and random make-out sessions. Review: `21 & Over' an all-night rager 2013-02-28T18:44:09Z They lull you into a mechanical fantasia where man is obsolete and machines rule. TV from the outer limits of the EPG 2013-02-23T06:00:00Z The din of that mechanical bell: doesn’t it call to mind the urgent commotion in so much of Mr. Coleman’s music? Critic’s Notebook: Ornette Coleman Profile, ‘Ornette: Made in America’ 2012-08-30T21:07:14Z The idea of using the visual arts for documentary purposes seems pretty much dead, another victim of the age of mechanical reproduction. The Bump and the Hollow of Thomas Hart Benton 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z The normalization of muchness might not be more than the mechanical outcome of a changing business model. Musicians Redefine Long Play in 2015 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z But the story is lumpy too, its mechanical interweaving of Shakespeare and Disney somehow both predictable and holey. Review: In ‘Fairycakes,’ the Woods Are Campy, Dark and Daft 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z And while most balloon installers use air and mechanical fixtures rather than helium to keep their work in place, those who do need helium will find it’s harder than ever to find. How Balloons Blew Up 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Are there too many mechanical things on stage? Seattle’s Metropolitan Opera auditions get a makeover 2014-01-15T19:17:36Z Since 2000, he has been creating abstract photographs in which he beams colored light on photoreceptive paper in the darkroom, absorbing contaminating dirt and mechanical glitches into what are essentially experiments in a chemistry lab. Wolfgang Tillmans Takes Pictures of Modern Life, Backlit by the Past 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z A giant mechanical elephant - The Sultan's Elephant - parades through London on May 5, 2006. Open your mind to public spaces 2010-06-21T10:06:00Z Mechanical Minitaurs, chosen by Iris My favorite mythological creatures are the mechanical minotaurs from Percy Jackson and the sea of monsters. My top five mythical creatures 2012-12-10T09:00:00Z Whether the formula for Rubedo deserves special status is impossible to say from a metallurgical viewpoint, said Anthony J. DeArdo, a professor in the department of mechanical engineering and materials at the University of Pittsburgh. Tiffany?s Rubedo Line Stirs Debate Over Meaning of Metal 2012-04-04T22:23:49Z But even the industry’s most passionate inventors acknowledge that mechanical watches have their limits. Unfazed by Change, Swiss Watch Houses Embrace Technology 2013-04-24T15:32:37Z He sees redemption as a mechanical process — you follow the steps, make some payments and get the results — rather than an internal struggle. In the ‘Barry’ Finale, Hollywood Gets Away with Murder 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z We were standing in his bedroom and he was in the mechanical hospital bed the hospice team had installed. Dying is never easy: Assisted suicide doesn’t necessarily help us have a “good death” 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z To Ricky, the gag, the joke, the magical effect and the plot of the play were all, correctly, understood as mechanical representations of the same idea: Get their attention, reward it with surprise. David Mamet on Ricky Jay, a Great Astonisher and ‘Truest Friend’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Some are supplied by Mr. Gregg, the most reliably funny and doggedly human presence in the “Iron Man”-“Thor”-“Avengers” cycle of mechanical marvels. Movie Review: ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ Directed by Joss Whedon 2013-06-06T14:57:14Z "When Tiger started out, there was nothing mechanical about him," Nicklaus told Golf Digest. Golf: Why Tiger Woods' Swing Overhaul May Hurt His Game 2011-04-08T08:50:00Z Considered the heart of a mechanical watch, the balance wheel, part of a regulating system that ensures a watch’s technical accuracy, is typically hidden at the back of the movement. Special Report: Watches: Leaping Forward, Back in Time 2011-11-24T14:08:56Z I don’t like hearing when people talk of machines: oh, our mechanical age; oh, robots; oh, this and that. Man and Things 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z He outlines her portrait in mechanical pencil, one of several weighing down his front pocket. This court artist has drawn everyone from Manafort to RBG. Will his craft survive? 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z “I wish to be constructive,” she said, “not a mere mechanical tool for transmitting a man’s spoken thoughts to letter paper.” The Misplaced Feminism of Ms. Monopoly 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z The other three are automatic mechanical watches equipped with manual winding mechanisms. Seiko Honors 'Star Wars' With Limited Edition Watches 2012-11-22T13:30:16Z "In spite of the evidence that crimes, fires, mechanical failures, drownings and mishandled medical emergencies occur with disturbing regularity on cruise ships, the industry continues to deny that it has a problem," Rockefeller said. Cruise passengers recount horror stories to Senate 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z The piece also emits a disturbingly high-pitched squeak: a mechanical distress call. 'Deer Rear' and other unnerving looks at the nature of trickery 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z The piece makes self-reflexiveness audible as a distorting force, something that jumps in the path of communication, and yet the voice that emerges from the mechanical duet is beautiful and full of texture. A Début Novel of Elderly Millennials, Afflicted with a Selective Strain of Self-Awareness 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z It encompassed craft and mysticism, teapots and mechanical ballets, parties and polemics. From bob cuts to Bond films, the Bauhaus legacy lives on 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z The mechanical illuminated dial featured a sleeve at the top of the clock into which you would insert an unlit kitchen match. Perspective | How to turn your writing into an obstacle course 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Try though Mr. Strand does to make these personalities equal opponents, it’s sometimes hard to disguise the mechanical nature of Cat’s role. Review: ‘The Originalist,’ About Scalia, Opens in Washington 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Ultimately, though, she noted, “Bushwig is a place for unbridled expression, and whether that expression be artistic, emotional or mechanical, people have decided to express themselves in whatever way suits them.” Bushwig Grows Up 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z The films are symptoms of the disease they purport to diagnose: manifestations of our troubled, citified response to anything natural, beautiful and not mechanical. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Many of the mechanical pencils in the mosaics were his. Duke Riley: Grand Master Trash 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Many of Henry’s fellow tinkerers were scientists and mathematicians who added mechanical arms to computers to guide pens across the screen or sheets of paper. Design: When Desmond Paul Henry Traded His Pen for a Machine 2011-02-27T19:00:05Z And until the end, the whole thing is weirdly free of any but the most superficial, mechanical surprises. ‘Avengers: Infinity War’: It’s Marvel’s Universe. We Just Live in It. 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z It’s a throwback to the era of mechanical typewriters, when letter spacing was chaotic and you needed that extra space to emphasize the end of a sentence and the beginning of another. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Turns out, President Trump and I aren’t total opposites 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Another one for teens, Cross's rip-roaring tales of Finley Jayne takes elements of classic adventure literature and mixes them together with added mechanical gadgetry and supernatural elements in a fun, steampunk fantasy series. Sharon Gosling's top 10 children's steampunk books 2013-02-28T11:19:24Z This robot isn’t a replica of a human, by the way, but one of those disembodied mechanical arms on a broad base, used for machine tooling and such in factories. The dancer and the robot: In ‘Huang Yi & Kuka,’ longing is cold comfort 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z One was a mechanical problem from the botching of the surgery. Mystery illnesses are on the rise with women, whom doctors are dismissing as "nervous Nellies" 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z “Watches are just another fine mechanical thing,” he says. $39,000 for a wristwatch? Collectors don’t blink, and even go for seconds. 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z They say games work well when they require various skills, with team members searching for clues and resolving puzzles by using logic and mechanical skills. Tourists in Budapest pay to be locked up in cellars 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z American Airlines flight 2144 to Washington DC’s Reagan Airport was forced to return to the gate about 3:15 p.m. following a mechanical issue reported by ground personnel, a law enforcement source told CNN. Plane with Hillary Clinton aboard grounded after shaking, smoking from mechanical issue: report 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Jankowski remembers once riding in a helicopter that experienced mechanical problems and “fell out of the sky.” After 50 years, the mystery of these Vietnam War photos of ‘Donut Dollies’ is solved 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z It seems like an innocuous sentiment, but in reality the memorialization of American tragedy in the absence of critical scrutiny nurtures a slovenly, mechanical commitment to age-old mythologies of U.S. exceptionalism. Matt Lauer, pleasant corporate stooge: America’s double standard on politicizing the Olympics 2014-02-14T16:34:00Z Due to mechanical difficulties sustained during the Pudding challenge, this week ends with the elimination of two contestants, which is bound to be heartbreaking. Smart Watch: Top TV picks this week include “Orange Is the New Black” and the “Pose” finale 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z A cue ball slamming into an eight ball sends it flying, mechanical cause and effect. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z “It was both a structural and mechanical intervention,” while “making sure those interventions are invisible,” he said. Staten Island Museum Is Reopening in Snug Harbor Complex 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z In a speculative riff on the future of the womb, Hazard talks to a biolaw professor who imagines a world in which fetuses could be gestated outside the body in mechanical “biobags.” The Womb Is a Miracle, and a Mystery 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z The magic in this “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” is loud, mechanical and uninspired. | 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice': Nicolas Cage Teaches a Dweeb He?s Magic 2010-07-13T21:29:00Z I was simply grabbed by the sheer mass of sound, human and mechanical. John Cage Recital? Take the A Train 2012-08-08T15:24:32Z Singing with a bright, pure soprano, she recalls the mechanical Olympia from Offenbach’s “Tales of Hoffmann.” Review: ‘Ride the Cyclone,’ About Teenagers, and Angst, in Purgatory 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z As per USA Today, reps for Norwegian confirmed that the mechanical problem was related to the vessel’s propulsion and steering system. Norwegian Jade cruise ends early due to mechanical issue 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Eight of us total, six crew and two leaders, carried an oversized heavy-duty garbage bag in one arm and mechanical pickers in the other. "Finding the bones was heartbreaking": What I learned about migrants picking up trash at the border 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z But there are also mechanical issues at play, clearly. Félix Auger-Aliassime Is Trying to Stay Calm 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Sometimes they are hunted down by mechanical hounds for the crime of reading books, as in Fahrenheit 451. Margaret Atwood on Ray Bradbury: the tale-teller who tapped into the gothic core of America 2012-06-08T21:55:20Z During the closing ceremony, in front of a worldwide TV audience, Mr. Richie performed “All Night Long,” dancing on a mechanical riser like a single man atop a wedding cake. Lionel Richie Wants to Teach You How to Be a Real ‘American Idol’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z In Mr. Carey’s hands, this is no gimmick: it is a way of enhancing Catherine’s understanding of how fragile and precious life is and how disturbing its mechanical counterpart can be. Books of The Times: ?The Chemistry of Tears,? a Novel by Peter Carey 2012-05-21T03:47:19Z To build the mechanical works, he later established a factory in Switzerland, where he employed artisans accustomed to making watches, music boxes and automatons. Victor Salvi, Who Played Harps and Made Them Too, Dies at 95 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z It follows an ethos composed in the mind of the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner in the early 1920s, and the tenets are fairly simple: There can be no synthetic chemicals or mechanical irrigation. The Italian Winemakers’ Cult 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The band produces a metallic, mechanical sound that is suitably chilling. Readers recommend: songs about works of art – results 2013-02-01T09:56:00Z Their use also comments on commercialization and mechanical duplication. In the galleries: Celebrating nature 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z He was making this intense mechanical installation art and working with Survival Research Laboratories. | Chris Johanson on the Apocalyptic Machines of Kal Spelletich 2013-08-16T18:48:15Z The cause of the emergency was not immediately clear, but was reported to be a possible fuel or mechanical issue, according to the outlet. Pilot credits 'God' with landing plane safely on interstate in North Carolina 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z We get mechanical, textbook definitions of menorahs and sufganiyot and dreidels. Hallmark and Lifetime Do Hanukkah. Oy. 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z A posse of oversized playthings hit the open road in the Sorrento, where they get in hot tubs, ride mechanical bulls and party in Vegas. 2010-02-08T13:08:00Z From there, the film transforms into a kind of mechanical ballet. 2010-01-30T05:18:00Z All three songs are delivered with mechanical clarity, with all three vocalists making direct lyrical references to eternity. How the death of EDM brought pop music one step closer to eternal life 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z The exploratory impulse grows in the galleries devoted to human biology and mechanical engineering. Museum Review: The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas 2012-12-01T00:56:04Z He had never before taken apart an oven door, but he was pretty confident in his mechanical abilities. How to clean the grime between the panes of an oven door 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The show’s plotting, especially in the later seasons, has tended to be both melodramatic and mechanical. ‘Gomorrah’ Review: The End of TV’s Sleekest Italian Import 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z The Jewel was forced to adjust its itinerary because of the coronavirus and mechanical problems, after the ship began experiencing problems with its propulsion. Norwegian Jewel passengers disembark in Hawaii after cruise ship denied at several ports 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z A delicate balance between the two voices is struck after that, before everything fades away, replaced by a mechanical hum. Readers recommend: songs about uncertainty 2010-10-21T23:01:00Z This writer already has recommended a return to mechanical controls to avoid this haunting, and I expect that the regulators will demand some new override controls on all cars--brake overrides against the gas pedal. Toyota Fears Will Hurt All The Automakers 2010-02-26T11:00:00Z The bill also promises to offer customers “timely” updates about any changes in a ship’s itinerary caused by a mechanical failure or an emergency. The best consumer-friendly travel regulations you’ve never heard of 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z This is an author who writes with the steady hand of a man who knows he’s driving a cool set of wheels and respects his own mechanical skills. War Wounds: Crime Novels From All Kinds of Battlefields 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z If you are feeling tired, sore or sluggish, you must keep up with the brisk, mechanical pace of the line. Green Bay Packers fans love that their team doesn’t have an owner — just don’t call it “c... 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z As for those mechanical tics and spasms, they augur an approaching breakdown. Review | Who is ‘The Clockwork Man’? He may be literature’s first cyborg. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z While the helicopter pilot was returning to base to deal with a mechanical problem, he gave them a tour of the camp. Two mystery photos and a 50-year search for the ‘Donut Dollies’ of the Vietnam War 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Her recent exhibit in London filled the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with floating mechanical aerobes and a “scentscape” representing the history of London’s Bankside area from the 14th to 20th centuries. Can Scent Be Democratized? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z In one room is Conrad Shawcross's new installation, Projections of a Perfect Third, which seeks to represent a chord in drawings, sculpture and one of the outsize mechanical systems that are his trademark. Revealed ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:39Z He clambered up and slid down the director Robert Lepage’s hulking mechanical set with abandon. Eric Owens as Alberich in Wagner?s ?Ring? at the Met 2012-02-18T05:03:04Z So here I am listening To the tick of my mechanical aortic valve—overhearing, rather, the way it flits In and out of consciousness. Our Year in Poems 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z His design for the Arab World Institute in Paris in 1987 was dominated by mechanical, light-regulating apertures arranged in a pattern that evoked Islamic motifs. Architecture Review: Celebrating the Delicate Beauty of the Desert Landscape 2010-03-22T22:46:00Z “You’ll hear many guys describe it: I’m alone on an island in a vast sea,” said Jim O’Dowd, the conference organizer, who is a former mechanical engineer and a father of four. The Brotherhood of the Stay-at-Home Dad 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z One Israeli inventor has already developed a mechanical mask with a mouth that opens and closes, allowing people to wear a mask while eating in restaurants. Masks are changing the way we look at each other, and ourselves 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z It all seemed very mechanical and he didn't appear to be grieving. The Last Minute by Eleanor Updale - review 2013-02-11T12:00:00Z Though the young women on the show mentioned how much they liked his personality and admired his mechanical talents, they weren’t interested in him romantically. A reality star we didn’t really know 2013-04-02T15:43:00Z He graduated from the University of Maryland, from which he also received a master of science degree in fire protection engineering and where he is currently studying for a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. Carrie Dorn, Adam Friedman 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Webber, who did his own editing, draws simplistic, mechanical connections in his crosscutting. ‘The Place of No Words’ Review: Shared Illusions 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z For him the great guru of medical antiquity was Aristotle, with his emphasis on experiment and observation, and his study of body parts in terms of mechanical functionality. Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright – review 2012-06-06T09:50:01Z It was modest, uncluttered music, beautiful in its economy like a mechanical watch. The xx finds a quiet place in big-sound pop world 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z The walls themselves would have held most of the museum's mechanical equipment as well as playing a structural role. Peter Zumthor's plan for LACMA undergoes makeover 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Hoping it would go away, she went through an all-boys public school, did national service in the Royal Air Force, began a career in mechanical engineering, married and had three children. 'Age has nothing to do with it': how it feels to transition later in life 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Investigators found no mechanical problems with the Porsche or debris or other problems on the roadway in an industrial park in Santa Clarita about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Car in Walker crash may have been going 100 mph 2014-01-03T21:10:56Z Her grander-than-grand entrance is made on the back of a mechanical pink elephant. L.A. Opera goes for the epic with 'The Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The result is that we frequently feel as if we were reading a screenplay, with scenes and dialogue and mechanical crosscutting but no dramatic weight — and no novelty. Books of The Times: ‘The Intercept,’ Dick Wolf’s First Novel 2013-01-10T19:26:43Z Highlights include log juggling, flying trapeze and a cantering mechanical horse. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z We developed mechanical abilities, we made machines, then we took on some of the qualities of those machines. The digital media age is all about the past: “The Internet is not an extension of television” 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Intricate rococo mechanical tabletops open and fold back to reveal hidden compartments and mirrors, and even the tiniest nécessaire boxes pop open with charming vials and makeup tools. "Metropolitan Vanities" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art : Architectural Digest 2013-12-20T05:00:00Z A forced landing by a helicopter with mechanical problems brought the Dollies to the remote village where Roberts was a lonely and forlorn adviser to Vietnamese troops, along with two other soldiers. After 50 years, the mystery of these Vietnam War photos of ‘Donut Dollies’ is solved 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Even though the mechanical sharks that were used in Jaws gave the crew all kinds of trouble, the scene where the shark finally starts dining on Robert Shaw is unforgettable. Where are all the other great shark movies? 2010-07-08T21:36:00Z Conceived by a mechanical engineer, Salim T. S. al-Hassani, it began on a smaller scale touring British cities. Exhibition Review: A Golden Age in Science, Full of Light and Shadow 2010-12-09T23:34:00Z Not Sands’s one, though: “That was me without any mechanical amplification.” ‘I didn’t want to be a Hollywood actor’: Julian Sands on controversy, fear and his best friend, John Malkovich 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Worst, though, are instances in which you’re able to call something way before it happens because of boring and mechanical writing. The Walking Dead: season 8, episode 12 recap – The Key 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z A critic once wrote that “even her legendary trill is mechanical,” and that applies to Mr. Glover’s dancing. Dance Review: Savion Glover Taps at Hummingbird Speed at the Joyce 2010-06-22T22:32:00Z The film runs through plot points in appropriately spectacular, if mechanical, fashion. ‘The Lady of Heaven’ Review: A Tale of Two Eras 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Sherman’s best photographs are simultaneously a window and a mirror, and the machine is far more complex than merely the mechanical camera. Art as a mirror of selfie culture? That's 'Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life' 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z They were aghast that mechanical earth-moving equipment was used, instead of more delicate means. Alexander the Great’s Legacy Stirred Up by Excavation 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z "It's very difficult to separate mechanical reliability and dependability from what we actually see in the market." The Toughest Cars On The Road 2011-03-23T23:00:00Z Penetrating and resonant, she shot out burst-like phrases with nearly mechanical exactitude and endurance, but was also expressive within the discipline. Review: The Met’s ‘Akhnaten’ Takes a Post-Grammys Victory Lap 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Composition, Mr. Dubal added, should be encouraged in conservatories to facilitate broader and more creative artistry, rather than the “robots culture, a mechanical culture” that exists today. King of Virtuosos Is Weary Of His Crown 2011-07-22T15:32:31Z Sharpest of all is a photograph that reflects upon the peculiar dominance – and danger – of mechanical reproduction itself. Light from the Middle East: New Photography – review 2012-12-09T00:05:48Z Scott Lyall’s opalescent, Minimalist canvases, digitally covered by thousands of tiny bits of color, invite thought about painting in an age of mechanical reproduction. Art Review: ‘Anti-Establishment’ and Liam Gillack’s Work at Bard 2012-07-05T19:44:25Z The structure here is more mechanical, and the ambience scruffier, as the complicated story shifts from one disreputable lowlife to another. Movie Review: In ‘Easy Money: Hard to Kill,’ Wily Social Climber Is Back 2014-02-13T23:26:19Z They might even do a little to nudge hospitals in the United States away from the midcentury model of sealed buildings that rely on imperfect mechanical systems costing a king’s ransom and gobbling up energy. In Haiti, Battling Disease With Open-Air Clinics 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z The exposed mechanical equipment along the ceiling is painted white. The new Berkeley Art Museum is a study in extremes 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z All Mr. Favreau expected Ms. Wilde to do was ride a mechanical horse for a couple of close-ups of her face. Arts & Leisure: Look Past the Beauty, if You Can 2011-07-22T13:53:10Z For the director, Danny, Paul and Adrian could represent the three Transformers movies, bloated and bustling, and with a Hasbro toy’s mechanical heart. Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain: The Second Time as Farce 2013-04-26T03:30:45Z And, unlike some young performers pushed into the spotlight, there is nothing mechanical or forced about him. From Japan, the Heavy-Metal Kid 2010-10-20T11:24:00Z A critical component is the elaborate stack of mechanical elements that compose the clattering film projector standing in the center of the gallery. Upended assumptions in "Augment This" at Cherry and Martin Gallery 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Like the Tin Woodman in The Wizard of Oz, Jack could be just a mechanical man, a cyborg, in need of a tune-up. A Good Day to Die Hard: Yippee-Ki-Yay, Mother Russia 2013-02-14T04:30:45Z For “Up,” Twain strapped herself to a mechanical bull and let a crane drag her to the arena’s rafters. Shania Twain goes big and bigger at Verizon Center 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Those daily lists, every mechanical or electronic device we use, every financial move we make or that bankers make in robbing us: all this stuff relies on maths, wouldn't happen without it. Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos| Book review 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z It’s a story that involves mechanical ingenuity, money-making and the misuse of a firearm designed for warfare. Best young adult and children’s books for July 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z In 1914, Lord & Taylor opened in Manhattan with a manicure parlor for men, a mechanical horse and three places to eat. Celebrities and Chicken Salad: The Lure of Freds at Barneys 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z “The restoration requires a master of all trades: mechanical, plumbing, electrical, woodwork, metalwork and design.” The retro bliss of vintage trailer resorts 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z “All the mechanical things are rusty junk I used to sell at Piriformis,” says Galloway. This global garden, with many accents, suits its site 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Regardless of where it happens, "Kinesthesia" promises to tread new ground, featuring more than 80 works by an estimated 20 artists, all pioneers in the area of optical and mechanical art. Future of OCMA's Pacific Standard Time Latin America show is uncertain 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z He graduated from Yale in 1947 with a degree in mechanical engineering, and started Electronics Engineering, a company which exploited then-primitive computer science to create a pioneering airline reservation system. DA Pennebaker obituary 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Smooth, almost seductive moments surprise in “The Cure,” but when Medea is weaving her spells, mellifluence gives way to a ritualistic, mechanical savagery, unnatural and feral. Review: Harrison Birtwistle’s ‘The Cure’ and ‘The Corridor,’ Myths With a Twist 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Thank Zeus they clipped Bubo's wings – Ray Harryhausen's pathetic mechanical owl from the original movie only gets a tiny cameo here. Clash of the Titans rules US box office | Jeremy Kay 2010-04-05T10:08:00Z "I know all about the mechanical aspects of writing and what order to put phrases in and the rhythm of a sentence and how to construct it," he said. Thank God for Clive James 2012-06-24T19:00:09Z As a choreographer Mr. Soto is not alone in creating mechanical movement that lacks lasting texture and daring. Dance Review: Slapped, Stamped and Delivered 2011-02-23T23:12:03Z “Last time there was a central mechanical plant — that was hard,” she said. Philharmonic’s Geffen Hall Plans Continue in Fits and Starts 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Contrasts between the animate and the mechanical, the organic and the industrial, is another. Fake fur, rubber, afghans: Craft museum unfurls some playful surprises in 'Material as Metaphor' 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z “The show’s kind of grounded in the mechanical similarities between sound recording and printmaking,” said Elleree Erdos, the exhibition’s curator, who is now the director of prints and editions at the gallery David Zwirner. Prints Make Themselves Seen (and Heard) Again 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Perhaps it was Ralston's other life as a mechanical engineer that helped him with the intricate process of deciding on the most efficient way to cut off his own arm. Aron Ralston, 127-hour canyon survivor, 'understands what life is' 2010-11-17T23:58:00Z One adjustment: he learned to paint from a wheelchair and devised a mechanical system to lower and raise his canvases into a slot in his studio floor. 'Chuck Close: Life': The Northwest native painter who brought the portrait back to modern art 2010-05-26T23:49:00Z Rather than keeping the musicians together with a mechanical “click track,” everyone recorded their parts by following a video of Mr. Nézet-Séguin air-conducting. The Met Opera’s At-Home Gala: Informal Yet Profoundly Moving 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z The greatest appeal rests in the singer Caroline Polachek’s jazz-inflected vocals, which fascinate in their agile leaps and slightly mechanical serration. Pop & Rock Listings for June 10-16 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z It wasn’t a technical glitch, but rather an easy mechanical fix. The truth about Facebook’s plan to literally alter reality 2014-04-24T18:50:00Z To his public they probably would have seemed weirdly mechanical and emotionally icy. Art Review: ‘John Rogers: American Stories’ at New-York Historical Society 2012-11-08T22:14:24Z Frederick Winslow Taylor, an early twentieth-century mechanical engineer, led the movement, and “Taylorism,” as his theory was called, led to further improvements in the production and transportation of products from factory to consumer. Super Storm Sandy wiped out some restaurants for months but one midtown pizzeria served days later 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z Unlike quartz watches, mechanical ones don’t need a battery because they derive energy from a mainspring that is either wound by hand or, in an automatic watch, by the natural movement of the wearer’s wrist. Watchmaker Zenith bets on new way of keeping time 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The 47-millimeter, or 1.8-inch, watch combines three complications — the tourbillon, retrograde minute and the vertical crown — in an original and modern way that pays homage to both the aesthetic and mechanical beauty of the watch. Special Report: Watches: Chanel Enters Haute Horology's Big Leagues 2010-03-19T15:50:00Z A Paris-bound Delta flight was diverted to Boston on Thursday night following a mechanical issue that reportedly left passengers “panicking,” according to one traveler. Delta flight declared emergency after crew reported a 'vibration' on the plane, FAA confirms 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z If only this cunning creature didn't measure her own self-worth in such a coldly mechanical way. 'An Object of Beauty': Steve Martin's light but satisfying novel of the New York art scene 2010-12-02T00:59:00Z Then again, had CNN, CBS News and others taken such care, we would not have had this demonstration of a mechanical communication breakdown. Trump’s NAFTA speaker phone call to Mexico: Reality TV posing as “breaking news” 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z This wasn’t true of Belohlavek, who occasionally crossed the line from crispness to a mechanical time-beating — possibly a byproduct of keeping the orchestra so well in line. Czech guest conductor leads pianist Igor Levit in strong debut at NSO 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Most of the work is done by master watchmakers hunched over tables of miniature components, wearing magnifying eyepieces or peering through microscopes as they finish and assemble the mechanical movements by hand. This German Village is a Town Based on Time 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Nostalgia alone doesn't make for a worthwhile show, and the Cars, for all their mechanical precision and unfeeling attitude, remain best enjoyed on headphones. Lollapalooza Day 3: Rain, more rain, and a Foo Fighters finale 2011-08-08T05:32:00Z These conjure African sculpture and masks, schematizations of stretched pelts, mechanical drawings and also a kaleidoscope’s interlocking shapes. Art In Review: DOUGLAS MELINI: ‘A Sharing of Color and Being a Part of It’ 2012-07-19T21:30:52Z According to Smith, Walt Disney himself “was inspired to pursue the concept of singing birds” after interacting with a mechanical bird during a trip to New Orleans. Disney World slams rumor that a classic attraction is being replaced 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z For all the hoopla over women’s growing interest in serious, mechanical watches, the two most prominent trends in ladies’ timepieces reflect very different philosophies of style. Special Report: : Sporty or Chic? It's Her Choice 2011-11-24T13:30:25Z His sharp beard, twinkling eyes, wrinkled forehead and mechanical beat make him look like a little puppet as he peers hopefully into the camera. Conductor Mitch Miller dies at age 99 2010-08-02T18:27:00Z But most of those have been released from their hulls with mechanical shellers. Field peas: A summertime classic throughout the South Instead we get Wilkinson declaring that math “was a brute, malign and mechanical thing.” Math Defeated Him in School. In His 60s, He Went Back for More. 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z All was going well until the 1970s, when something hit the hand-made mechanical watch trade like a mallet. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z But for gloves and woolens and luggage and certain kinds of mechanical devices, you want the homemade product. The Europe Issue : How I Fell for Milan 2011-04-15T18:55:00Z Once, in my 30s, faced with losses, I embarked on a new chapter in a very mechanical way: I got on a plane to Berlin, a city well suited for reinvention and its accompanying grief. How Should I Respond to Overzealous Gestures of Sympathy? 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z In energy efficient homes, people need to be informed about how best to use their mechanical ventilation system to avoid such exposure. Cooking pollutes your home and increases your health risks — but better ventilation will help 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z In one study, when carrots were subjected to mechanical stress, like excessive shaking during growing, they tasted bitter and "sickeningly sweet." How to store carrots so they last for months 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z It gives his music a gleam and, in workings but not sound, a mechanical dazzle which never falters. Los Angeles Philharmonic/Dudamel; Written on Skin – review 2013-03-17T00:06:26Z He grew up in Palisades Park, New Jersey, and said he developed delicate mechanical skills early on by working in his father’s machine shop. The exacting art of saxophone repair 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Baby Johnny rocks quietly, not crying, in a mechanical swing. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Can Any Relationship Last? 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z For centuries afterward technological achievements could be measured by the evolution of the mechanical clock. Museum Review: National Watch & Clock Museum, Columbia, Pa. - Review 2011-09-08T22:42:06Z Now his heart is partially mechanical, with valves made from carbon fiber, and he uses a pacemaker. Table tennis: It might be time to take it up again His father retired as a project manager at Gallo Mechanical in New Orleans, a mechanical construction and service provider, and as an instructor at Local 60 New Orleans Pipe Trades Apprenticeship Program. Tracey Auster, Jeffrey Grimes 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z He played sensitively, although his rush through the finale sounded mechanical and, at times, breathless. Music Review: A Breathless Boccherini, an Unnerving Shostakovich 2010-11-23T23:40:00Z What about the famous "squeeze machine" you built as a teenager to calm yourself down with a mechanical hug? 2010-02-04T22:50:00Z Promises, promises: This mechanical movie projector is as much an empty shell as the image glowing on the wall. Upended assumptions in "Augment This" at Cherry and Martin Gallery 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z It's on his less mechanical, more idiosyncratic songs, however, that Bozz comes into his own. Bozzwell ? the enlightenment 2010-12-27T12:32:54Z The bride’s father is a mechanical engineering professor at Volgograd State Polytechnic University. Olya Chervontseva, Stephen Johnson 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z The cultural theorist Walter Benjamin claimed that in the "age of mechanical reproduction", art loses its "aura" as it ceases to be unique or special. Van Gogh paints DiCaprio: has Photoshop gone too far? 2013-05-20T15:21:46Z To see their deft physical adjustments as they navigated between more balletic and mechanical movement was intriguing. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at David H. Koch Theater - Review 2012-01-18T22:51:15Z That concluding routine, already somehow celebrated, involving helicopters above the mountains and crags of Kashmir, is a blustering, mechanical anticlimax, in which the ending is foretold. “Mission: Impossible—Fallout” Is Basically a Two-and-a-Half-Hour Making-Of Sequence 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Trying to leave Iran, there were mechanical problems with Swiss Air, which was a surprise. Former spy talks "Argo," and Iran rescue mission 2012-10-12T15:03:31Z While the overall mechanical feel prevailed, some life came through during the Asian-themed "Toxic," which was sped up and had a more driving beat. Britney Spears and her dazzling distractions 2011-07-09T14:32:00Z Spare Times for Children, for Nov. 23-29 ‘The Velveteen Rabbit’ Theatreworks USA’s production of “The Velveteen Rabbit” begins like one of the obnoxious mechanical toys in the story: bright, bombastic, loud. Spare Times for Children, for Nov. 23-29 2012-11-22T20:56:47Z The doors of the buses open, and instead of a tumble of children, there is the whine of a mechanical lift. ‘For five years we dreaded every meal’: my infant son’s struggle with food 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Those heavy, bulky canisters belong to the mechanical past, along with the whir of the projectors and the shudder of the sprockets locking into their holes. The New Season: How Digital Is Changing the Nature of Movies 2012-09-06T16:55:25Z Rambaldi, a wizard of a discipline known as mechatronics - which combines disciplines including mechanical, electronic and system design engineering - did not hide a disdain for computerized effects. Italian special effects master Rambaldi dies at 86 2012-08-10T18:50:19Z “ExpressJet Airlines flight 4390, operating as United Express from Knoxville to Houston, diverted to Dallas and landed safely following a mechanical issue,” an ExpressJet spokesperson confirmed in a statement to Fox News. 'Flying blind': United Express flight diverts to Houston when pair of cockpit screens go blank 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z And then there was the mechanical engineer Philip B. Downing: “A black person invented the mailbox,” Jones said. Leslie Jones Is Leaving ‘S.N.L.’ Here Are Her 10 Funniest Moments. 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z What generates that feeling is when the drama is mechanical, when the characterizations are simplistic or flat, or when the ideas expressed are much narrower, duller, or less contentious than the ones that are implied. The Historical Imagination and “Free State of Jones” 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z It was a precise product of its time, the multiple object transporting potential experiences of great feeling in the age of mechanical reproduction. The greatest ever album covers 2012-07-06T16:00:14Z Nolan cares about time and space as mechanical matters that are meant to double as existential. Uncouth, Cranky and Rude: Movies in 1988 Were a Far Cry From Today 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z But he also studied mechanical and electrical engineering, and he was an inveterate tinkerer. Walter Sear, an Audio Engineer With a Passion for Analog, Dies at 80 2010-05-07T03:11:00Z The mechanical sounds of the games mix with players' chatter; it feels like a carnival has been squeezed inside a shoebox-size room. Competitive pinball is having a revival. This time around, women want their turn. 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Far more military choppers are lost to mechanical problems or bad weather. Afghanistan chopper crash kills 31 U.S. troops 2011-08-06T10:19:00Z It is 7.53am, the last Wednesday in March, and at a courier depot in Athens, the sperm of a Bermudian mechanical engineering student arrives, carried in a nitrogen tank. I flew to Greece and began solo IVF. Then the world shut down 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z The true merit of this ominous device is to be found on the inside, where its mechanical marvels reside. For Luxury Watch Buyers, One Just Isn’t Enough 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Whatever you may have thought of Lars von Trier's minimalist approach to telling stories on film, he created an undeniable triumph with this weird, mechanical, beautiful musical featuring songs composed and created by Björk. The 22 Best Movie Soundtracks of the 2000s 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z If you hear strange grinding, clicking or other noises coming from a mechanical drive, immediately turn it off. What to do if all your computer files go poof 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Her “breasts” often rise to sharp, mechanical points, and her stretched canvas suggests a severity and tension that belies the idea of skin. Review | This visionary artist lives on an island. Does that make her insular? 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Questions about creation and reproduction — mechanical, digital and otherwise — form a recurring theme. A First Novel Exposes the Hollow Core of the Global Big Ideas Industry 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z This is true of his drawings of machines such as tanks, flying machines and mechanical diggers. Was Leonardo da Vinci a prophet? 2011-03-25T16:41:49Z “You know the words, Bruce,” the mechanical voice says. Roger Ebert was the original fanboy 2013-04-05T16:50:00Z As for "Cronos," a low-budget Mexican vampire movie that blends the Hammer Films Poe adaptations of the '60s with some seriously weird mechanical effects, it might seem tame after "Santa Sangre." DVDs you should have seen -- but didn't: Beat the winter blahs! 2011-02-02T01:30:00Z The plan calls for upgrading the building’s mechanical systems and replacing its stone exterior, repairs that are usually funded by the government. Nine airlines donate $28 million to Air and Space Museum for makeover 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z The essential properties of the medium are movement and collision; and, from its infancy, history's first fully mechanical art form offered its astonished spectators motion pictures of other machines. Fast Five: The First Great Post-Human Movie 2011-04-28T11:20:00Z Mr. Martins is a candidate for a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering at Purdue. Finding Love at First Glance 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Shosholoza trains are notorious for late departures, mechanical woes and unexpected stops. South Africa aims to live the dream of equality for all 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Art Deco jewelry, with its mixing of natural and mechanical motifs, offered one inspiration. Carol Bove’s Light-Touch Heavy Metal Faces Down the Met 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z You will wait forever for the moment in which the familiar setups pay off with a sudden deepening, an acknowledgment that the mechanical jabs and parries have been part of a smarter plan all along. Review: In Matthew Perry’s First Play, a Chandler Gone to Seed 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Exfoliation, either mechanical or chemical, accelerates the shedding process, and when done right, reveals healthy skin cells. Exfoliation Tips for the Best Skin Ever 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Jukebox musicals are mechanical things, ritually unpacking pop catalogues to sweep audiences through hits they know and love. Hitsville goes glitzville in ‘Motown the Musical’ 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z However, the connecting flight from London to Baltimore was canceled due to a mechanical problem, and a day later I was rerouted to Washington Dulles International Airport. Why won’t British Airways cover my cab fare? 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Kelley Walker’s series of prints based on an old magazine ad in which Andy Warhol acts as a spokesman for Pioneer audio equipment is a strenuously involuted but unilluminating comment on mechanical reproduction. Art Review: ?Print/Out? and ?Printin? ?at the Museum of Modern Art 2012-02-16T23:07:07Z He fastidiously folded and glued matching-number tabs to form individual body and mechanical parts. Exhibitions: Nothing but a Paper Trail for a Mustang Long Gone 2012-07-08T02:07:18Z While the process of building bicycles, even bespoke ones, has seemed too oily and mechanical to be appreciated by the craft lobby, which has traditionally disdained anything associated with machinery. Design: New York Museum Showcases Custom-Made Bicycles 2010-05-09T19:00:00Z Pleasant if cryptic about his motives, he sidles onstage in a mechanical manner and hands Betty an oversized alarm clock, set for an hour and a half and urgently ticking. 'Timepiece' is an absurdist throwback 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z And later, when the band returned to the stage, he explained: "Due to severe mechanical and electric horror we can't do any more of that bit so we'll do something else." Pink Floyd: 'They don't dig creative complacency' – a classic feature 2013-03-06T15:27:41Z The house, with its garage and mechanical systems, takes up about 4,200 square feet, on an almost 12,000-square-foot site. Comforts, but Few Creatures (Unless You Count the Dog) 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z There will be a comprehensive collection dating back to the early days when mechanical war on ice and snow first replaced road gangs armed with shovels. Yorkshire gets the world's first gritter museum 2012-06-13T17:08:05Z The production’s three mechanical sharks kept breaking down, and shooting was often delayed: Steven Spielberg, the film’s director, took to calling the special effects team the “special defects department.” The ‘Jaws’ Shoot Was a Drama. Now It’s a Play. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The question is not whether brain dead people should be put on mechanical support forever, but whether they are biologically dead or not. ArtsBeat: Dick Teresi Talks About the Line Between Life and Death 2012-04-12T18:04:38Z Catalyzed lacquer is more durable than old-fashioned lacquer, but new layers won’t meld with old ones; the old finish needs to be either removed or thoroughly scuffed up first to ensure a good mechanical bond. How to replace a kitchen drawer 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z When he first got back into table tennis, Kumar was looking for an energetic but non-contact activity, because of “the mechanical stuff inside” as well as the fact that he takes anticoagulant medicine. Table tennis: It might be time to take it up again The pilot, kinetically directed by Mr. Murphy, introduces a world — familiar from the 1990 documentary “Paris Is Burning” but never detailed like this in series TV — without feeling mechanical or overexpository. Review: ‘Pose’ Demands to Be Seen 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Experts in the field say it is more than the spark of creation that separates man from his mechanical spawn. Machines beat us at our own game: What can we do? 2011-02-17T13:31:05Z Watson achieved some fame in the early 1900s by advocating a mechanical, rigid, affectionless manner in child rearing. Why are Americans so easy to manipulate? 2012-10-13T14:00:00Z It’s exactly what you do when you write music, you’re a music machine, it’s wheels and strings and when it connects, it’s motivated in a mechanical, beautiful way. Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard, the interview: 'It hurts, there is pain, there are blessings' 2012-08-16T04:25:00Z “Spider-Man,” with a budget of $70 million, attached wires to its actors and dancers, making the miracle of flight look rather mechanical. Arts & Leisure: How Do You Make a Whole Show Fly? 2011-06-08T12:00:00Z Mr. Unay often shoots Mr. Carman in wide screen at close range, emphasizing the physical strain of his routines, whether he’s running, training or doing mechanical work for a ferry system. Review: The Ring Is a Cage in Every Sense in ‘The Cage Fighter’ 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z “I like to sound spontaneous and fresh, but my first sketches often sound mechanical,” he said. Elliott Carter, Composer of the Avant-Garde, Dies at 103 2012-11-06T03:06:19Z Does that mean a mechanical dive watch is nothing but a retro affectation? Does Anyone Actually Go Diving With a Dive Watch? 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z The mechanical objects up for auction include “Neppy,” Jay’s smartly dressed automaton and veteran of hundreds of performances around the world in his stage show, “Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants.” A magical trove of Ricky Jay ephemera hits auction block 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z State-of-the-art mechanical systems, among them geothermal heating and cooling, were installed. An Elegant Weekend Getaway in New York's Hudson Valley 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z It's a mechanical plot and Mitchell is drawn to mechanisation. A Woman Killed with Kindness; Loyalty; Ghost ? review 2011-07-23T23:06:30Z The aged Claire is, we learn, made up of largely prosthetic parts, which means her movements tend to be stiff and mechanical. Review: Chita Rivera Stars in Kander and Ebb’s ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z On Years, the voice wobbles like a imitation of Auto-Tune, reaching for rapid changes in notes and never quite achieving mechanical perfection, which is unsettling and oddly beautiful. Laurel Halo: Quarantine – review 2012-05-31T20:49:01Z Now his blood pressure is spiking, his heart is failing, and the simple physical exertions of standing up and sitting down require enormous effort and mechanical assistance. ‘The Whale’ Review: Body Issues 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z And when I took apart the bicycle, the mechanical world served as the demanding arbiter. Urban Athlete: Victory, the Personal Kind 2011-08-11T22:26:04Z His caption style is mechanical: “Happy Mother’s Day!” The Mark Zuckerberg Aesthetic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Acting as prequel to the first two Deus Ex games provides Human Revolution with a world of mechanical body augmentation and cyberpunk mise en scène. 2011 games preview 2011-01-01T00:05:42Z Cast members engage in broad poses and mechanical dance to the songs on a minimalist set. | 'Border Towns': A Little Bit Dylan, a Little Bit Lots of Other Stuff 2010-09-16T03:00:00Z And wasn’t it recently reported that Jonathan Ive, the visionary Apple design honcho, allegedly pronounced doom — in terms not fit for this publication — not merely on mechanical timepieces but on the whole of Switzerland? For Luxury Watch Buyers, One Just Isn’t Enough 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Rather than driving consumers away from mechanical timepieces, he said, the quartz watch underlined the quirky, humanistic qualities of timepieces created by hand. For Luxury Watch Buyers, One Just Isn’t Enough 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z He’s very interested in mechanical things and how things work, and that’s something of me. Philip Pullman on what drew him back to the world of His Dark Materials 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Get good at spin casting and it still feels mechanical. A Father-Son Fishing Trip on the Chesapeake Bay 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Then there's a cacophony of alarms before listeners hear a mechanical bass click that sounds like a metronome or a mechanical heartbeat. How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Musca domestica, otherwise known as the common housefly, is known to be a mechanical vector of pathogens. Pence vs. Harris: Amid lies and side-eyes, a garbage pile of a debate attracts a fly 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The malleability is admirable, but it’s also mechanical, through no fault of Coffey’s. A manic ‘Hedda’ sails ’round the bend at Studio Theatre 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Her process combines mechanical methods, including stenciling, with collagelike additions of fabric scraps and other material. Museum Shows With Stories to Tell 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Ed worked as a mechanical engineer, which means that he researched, designed and built tools and machines. An elderly dog puts wheels in motion for family business 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Born from the demise of BNB Concept, which was the source of movements for the Hysek brand, the company turned its attention away from mechanical watches and started to look for an alternative. Special Report: A Cut Above: Watches: Luxury Watch Firms Catching Up to Generation X 2011-03-25T16:37:02Z Another is called Jacquard Causeway, which seems like it might be a reference to the Jacquard Loom, a sort of rudimentary mechanical computer. Boards of Canada: 'We've become a lot more nihilistic over the years' 2013-06-06T17:53:57Z With her bare, bronzed torso and ghostly, mechanical gestures, she resembles a statue brought to life, especially as she begins, startlingly, to glide backward. 2 Batsheva-Bred Choreographers, Speaking in Their Own Tongues 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z For his breakthrough World Arab Institute in Paris, for example, he devised an ingenious wall of circular mechanical louvres, like complex camera irises, to filter the light. Nouvel vogue 2010-03-24T16:18:00Z It said compliance would be difficult, partly because of potential mechanical or weather difficulties. Delta fights new rule on Seattle-Tokyo flight 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Through her photographs, she transformed abstract mechanical and optical principles into perceptible and concrete phenomena: revolutionizing science and photography both. In Transit Blog: Photographer Who Captured America at the Jeu de Paume 2012-02-27T15:45:26Z Yet they constantly show with a flourish and a smile that they are the opposite of mechanical. Brighton festival – review 2013-05-11T23:07:30Z After all, the crew problem and the mechanical issue were within the airline’s control. Travel Troubleshooter | American Airlines couldn’t get us to grandmother’s funeral. Now it’s keeping our money. 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Why have we stuck with ceramic despite its mechanical shortcomings? Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z Reps for the carrier, meanwhile, confirmed to Fox News that the cabin crew chose to divert to DFW for a “full mechanical inspection.” Spirit Airlines flight forced to land over unusual odor 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Michael soared through the air atop a mechanical horse suspended from a crane. An Operatic Conundrum Untangled 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z In the parlor’s mechanical chair, I write these paragraphs and dictate letters. Double Solitude 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z In its full statement, Delta did not confirm the cause of the “mechanical issue,” although a passenger aboard the plane reported hearing an unusually “loud noise” before the emergency was declared. Delta flight declared emergency after crew reported a 'vibration' on the plane, FAA confirms 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z By the 17th century, however, Christendom was in crisis and many found it hard to reconcile the notion of an incorporeal soul with a mechanical world that was increasingly understood as made up of matter. Lost soul 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Tuttle said it was "the job of the artist is to try to find a reunion between the mechanical and the human". 'Giant wings' fill Tate Turbine Hall 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z In the most explicit inversion of the source material, Brynner’s mechanical outlaw is now a veteran Westworld tourist with a taste for cruelty and a mysterious agenda. Is ‘Westworld’ HBO’s Next Big Hit? 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z A little amp, wrapped like a gift, tilts back and vibrates the mechanical thrum of a walkie-talkie keyboard feedback loop. What does rock music look like? Cal State L.A. gallery plays with the idea of sound 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z But by the late 1960s Bearden was subjecting collage to various mechanical and hands-on manipulations. Visions of Life, Built From Bits and Pieces 2011-03-31T23:00:12Z “The Cradle Will Rock” is nothing if not schematic in its mechanical dissection of how thoroughly the desire to get ahead of the other guy poisons society. Theater Review: ‘The Cradle Will Rock,’ a ’30s Revival at City Center 2013-07-11T21:52:40Z She was clumsy with the mechanical aspects of developing prints and had others assist her. A disturbing new image of photographer Diane Arbus 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z What's strange, or fresh, about any of the mechanical diversions on offer here? Yo-ho-hum for latest 'Pirates' 2011-05-18T21:10:00Z So is their narrative arc of mechanical fulfilment. Cemetery Junction may be joyous, but Brits were born to be glum 2010-04-19T10:03:00Z And if the carefully sewn silk gazar skirts and shirts embroidered with crystal collars that he showed were the couture part of the equation, then the photorealistic prints and mechanical black heels were the Pop. | Jason Wu 2011-09-09T20:33:35Z A combination of human and mechanical error seems likely. My first rollercoaster ride: are they really safer than a golf cart? 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Novelty marketers have even gotten in on the act with a miniature mechanical Nunzilla who spits sparks as she waddles menacingly toward the unsuspecting sinner. In Alice McDermott’s Novel, A Cloistered Life Blows Open 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z The driving force is fairly simple: Curtis sets out for the engine with the idea of overtaking the Snowpiercer's power-source, both human and mechanical. Hurtling along in Bong Joon-ho's train movie 'Snowpiercer' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z You talk, in “Cover,” about some of the mechanical aspects of creating book jackets, but I’m wondering how an idea gets from your brain to your hand. Designing a Book Cover for Italo Calvino 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z I usually drive to Walden, but cars — loud, efficient, mechanical — aren’t meant for the spiritual pilgrimage Dann, a historian and naturalist, intends to initiate with this transcendental biography of Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau the Weird: A New Interpretation of His Philosophy 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z His brother, Michael, a mechanical engineer, constructed a special casing for a 35-millimeter movie camera so that it could withstand the water pressure at two-and-a-half miles below sea level. When Submersibles Meet the Titanic, James Cameron Is an Inspiration 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z “Broadway style” dance can get stale, and as Elisabeth said, mechanical. For Broadway Dance, High Kicks and Low Comedy in a Season of Change 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Which is to say it’s exactly what Lawrence was looking for: a place to “smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.” Lawrence of Sardinia 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Other pieces of eco-technology in the Whitney’s basement include machines that regulate humidity, modulate the air flow and draw in outside air when conditions are ideal, reducing the need for mechanical ventilation. Art Museums Seek a Green Palette 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z The bride’s father, a mechanical engineer, is the senior director of operations at Cumberland Packaging in Brooklyn. Kalisha Dessources, Shomari Figures 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Nearly 300 Air France passengers found themselves quite literally stranded in Siberia for three days after their flight from Paris to Shanghai was diverted there due to mechanical issues. Air France diverted to Siberia leaves 282 passengers stranded for three days without winter clothes 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z His art work is often noted for bringing together the biological and mechanical into hybrid creations with nightmarish dimensions. H.R. Giger, 74, artist behind 'Alien,' dealt in the surreal 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z On set, if anything, I’ll knit because it’s mechanical, a meditation and doesn’t pull focus from the work. Krysten Ritter: By the Book 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z A list of offstage attractions hints at the outré bent of the Adult Swim brand: A hot-dog ride that bucks like a mechanical bull. Adult Swim Tries a New Channel: A Weekend Festival 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z I imagine that a core sample taken from one of these painted walls — a little cylinder the width of mechanical pencil lead, say — could be analyzed like tree rings. You Know What London Looks Like. But Have You Really Heard It? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z When the mechanical uproar faded, the only things that broke the snowy silence were whoops of joy and the thwack of gloves meeting in high-fives. Near Idaho’s Sun Valley, choppers give intrepid skiers an all-access pass 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Also, even in 3-D, I found the lizard version of him mechanical and fake, straight out of a B movie. The Amazing Spider-Man: An Unnecessary, Yet Exhilarating Reboot 2012-07-02T12:00:31Z “There’s some hardcore technical reasons why most mechanical music doesn’t groove that hard,” he said. 2010-01-30T00:49:00Z When a mechanical issue forced an overnight delay on a recent flight to Los Angeles, I went to the podium and requested hotel and food vouchers. What to Do if Your Flight Is Delayed or Canceled 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The overhaul of the building was guided by the principle of changing as little as possible, while modernizing outdated mechanical systems like air-conditioning, heating, security and fire safety. A 6-Year Refit Winds Back the Clock at a Berlin Landmark 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z For one thing, he insisted that the harnesses be slimier and less mechanical. Television: Kindly Keep Your Mitts Off My Planet 2011-06-03T20:59:53Z I view some of this as fairly mechanical. My friend says I should kill myself 2013-03-18T00:00:00Z He sits listlessly under a vast mechanical carousel, from which hot balloons of glass are piped. Dirk Bogarde: the rebellion of a reluctant pinup 2011-03-24T21:59:00Z When he talks about his own work, he often returns to images of mechanical wonder. The bestselling literary sensation you may struggle to name 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Anxious that the synth superstructure of house could be a little cold and mechanical, that any soul was slipping out of sight, he worked out a richer, more entrancing take that got labelled deep house. Paul Morley introduces Marshall Jefferson and Orlando of Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs 2010-05-28T12:21:00Z A shared fascination with precision, craftsmanship, mechanical engineering and timing is another. Special Report: Watches: For Luxury Watches, Life in the Fast Lane 2011-11-24T14:00:41Z But at a “Nutty Professor” rehearsal opened to the news media he frequently rose from his seat, hunched over and without any mechanical or physical aid, to give notes to his cast. Jerry Lewis Directing a Musical ‘Nutty Professor’ 2012-07-18T12:00:00Z The printed book – the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction par excellence – is astonishingly stable over time, place and reader. Why ebooks are a different genre from print 2013-03-26T08:21:56Z Question is, should this extra overnight stay be treated like a weather delay or a mechanical delay? Help! American Airlines canceled my flight but won’t cover my expenses 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z At one point a performer appeared to give agonizing birth to a reptilian, or possibly mechanical, creature as the water in the long onstage pool turned blood-red. A Splashy, Messy All-Naked Revue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z NR is decommissioning many mechanical signal boxes to consolidate signalling into 12 regional centres as part of a 30-year plan to modernise the system. Historic railway signal boxes get listed status 2013-07-25T18:12:42Z His mechanical skills allowed him to walk free of the same holocaust that swallowed up his wife, his sister and his parents. A refugee in Israel seeks his own kind of justice in the masterful ‘City of Secrets’ 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z But there's nothing stiff, or mechanical about their dancing. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Four 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z Moore's performance is uncharacteristically forced and mechanical -- this is a very rare instance in which she looks uncomfortable not just in her character, but within her own skin. 2009-12-10T01:10:00Z Radiating rays and repeated chevrons mix with forms rooted in the botanical, mechanical and diagrammatic, the cosmological mappings of mandalas and sand paintings, the symbolic abstractions of Native American tapestries. 'Phantom Color' at CB1 transcends in black and white 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z At Bush Hall, I was struck by how dynamic the music could be: passages of mechanical rhythms became strangely moving, emotional even. Brandt Brauer Frick say you can get (slightly) jiggy with it 2011-08-04T21:30:03Z It is a setup in which a series of actions come together surprisingly to give unity to mechanical behaviors. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z We've got another leading heart surgeon with his supercar and he's dangling a spanner under the bonnet, to show where we are with heart-fixing at the moment, it's still like a mechanical problem. Horizon: How to Mend a Broken Heart and The World's Worst Place to Be Gay? 2011-02-15T07:59:01Z Mr. Scrudato, 29, a mechanical engineer and a lawyer, works in New York. Shan Kuang, John Scrudato IV 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z College boys like Kurt were plucked from classes on thermodynamics, calculus, and mechanical engineering, given a few months’ hasty training in combat skills, and shipped to Europe. Kurt Vonnegut’s POW nightmare: Inside the World War II battle that shaped “Slaughterhouse Five” 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z When the writing isn't going very well, I admit I often wish I did something mechanical and repetitive for a living, perhaps something entirely physical. Who do you think you are? 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z Unfortunately, Glancy is unable to capitalize on his promising setup, and the narrative gradually disintegrates into a series of seize-the-day bromides; the mechanical plot takes too long to creak into place. The office: Three new books offer a glimpse at the contemporary workplace These included inflatable figures and mechanical set pieces that would emerge and withdraw at various stages throughout the concert. Watching the Stones Roll 2012-07-11T07:16:18Z These are watches handcrafted in Switzerland, the kind that dominated the quality watch market until the 1970s, when cheap plastic, and digital LCD technology, created inexpensive alternatives and made mechanical craftsmanship obsolete. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Why, yes, Gene, you can buy this watch for just $22,950 off the retail price! 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z These included fine automated music boxes, musical automatons and mechanical musical instruments. A Master Emerges From Humble Means 2012-09-04T15:23:10Z But later, as Galassi notes, as photography became one of the 20th century’s foremost forms of mass media, the photographer’s relationship with the studio became more mechanical, less intimate. Two exhibitions explore artists’ and photographers’ portraits of their own studios 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z “I don’t think there’s been any period of this much diversity and of this many fine mechanical watches,” says Jeffrey Kingston, a San Francisco lawyer, watch authority and collector. $39,000 for a wristwatch? Collectors don’t blink, and even go for seconds. 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Watching it spin, you get a real mechanical sense of music being reproduced. Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time 2012-04-07T00:27:22Z And then, over the box’s strange, mechanical tinkling, you hear a man’s voice—the sweetest you’ve ever known—imploring you to better serve your God: “Lift him up, that’s all.” Some of Us Are Haunted by Washington Phillips 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The room, open to the terminal, was inviting to the eye, but the acoustics promised little, even before Con Edison went to work right outside, with loud mechanical beeping accompanying the movements of heavy equipment. ‘A Suite Ride Through NYC,’ Featuring Paul Dwyer 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z “It’s effectively a complex, finely made mechanical puzzle that you’re finding other ways to get around.” Hackers conference celebrates one of the oldest tricks in the book: Picking locks She uses black-and-white illustrations and diagrams from old reference books, isolating and recombining the botanical, biological, astronomical and mechanical imagery, subverting its didactic clarity. Two artists' work at Couturier Gallery negotiate chance and control 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z The only problem was on Milwaukee District West Line, where outbound train No. 2201, due to arrive at the Big Timber station at 7:05 a.m., was not operating due to mechanical problems. Extreme cold on its way 2012-01-13T12:02:00Z One of the strangest fruits of his postwar Neo-Classicism was his infatuation with the pianola, a mechanical instrument that never missed a note or a cue and never grew tired. ‘Rite of Spring’ Cools Into a Rite of Passage 2012-09-16T03:27:28Z There’s a steadfastness in New Order’s music that can become hypnotic or simply mechanical; at some points, the rush of video images was carrying the concert as much as the music. Review: New Order, Still a Clockworks of Suppressed Emotion 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z No human being had seen such mechanical slaughter before: the shelling and machine-gunning, for no very obvious reason, of 10 million men from neighbouring countries. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-07-06T21:43:01Z I have several metal devices in my chest that my heart depends on, including an implanted defibrillator and a mechanical aortic valve. For a 30-Year-Old Virgin, It’s Now or Never 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The rows were set wide, and the soil had not been hand-weeded, sprayed or “cultivated,” which is the name for mechanical weeding. T Magazine: Children of the Corn 2011-09-22T01:30:18Z While officials Thursday focused on seismic technology and mechanical systems, area residents are mostly concerned about possibly losing the garden. Smithsonian’s $2 billion plan for area around Castle meets more resistance 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z This eclectic history celebrates feats of mechanical engineering while asking if imperfection might have a place. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Teen-agers are cyborgs, and their phones are mechanical eyes that help them interpret their experience. How Social Media Shapes Our Identity 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z His office was spotless; there was nothing on his desk except a pad, a mechanical pencil, and an eraser. The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The feudal fear of peasant revolt was transplanted to mechanical servants, and worries of a robot uprising have lingered ever since. Why Do We Hurt Robots? 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z At times you’d swear that the mechanical beaters were assessing what the ensemble’s sounds needed: a rude jolt here, a complementary hush there. Music Review: Eli Keszler’s ‘L-Carrier’ at Eyebeam in Chelsea 2012-06-10T22:00:27Z Being Kafkaesque, the Policeman makes use of a mechanical typewriter. The Investigation by Philippe Claudel – review 2013-02-07T09:00:02Z Used by the American military in the 1940s and 1950s to send coded messages, it looks like an oversize, boxy typewriter with rotors rising above the lid like a mechanical brain. ‘Decoding the Renaissance,’ at the Folger Shakespeare 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The film itself is based on Brian Selznick's award-winning "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," an illustrated novel about a Parisian boy and a broken automaton with a secret buried inside its mechanical memory. Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorcese's 'Hugo' 2012-02-22T17:21:13Z From the moment a gut-wrenching mechanical hum signals the start of the show, this “Fool” never lets up in its stealth attack on the nervous system. Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell Star in ‘Fool for Love’ 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z THE Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata at the Morris Museum here received national attention after Martin Scorsese’s film “Hugo,” which appeared last November. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z He is often hoisted on a mechanical platform applying paint with a long spatula. Anselm Kiefer Raises History’s Ghosts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z In the 1940s a German biologist fashioned a mechanical model of a pterosaur from balsa wood, wire, tissue paper and a rubber-band motor, and flew it at a professional conference. Exhibition Review: Natural History Museum Explores the Wonders of Pterosaurs 2014-04-10T14:00:02Z Moog was two years late delivering its new product, the Minimoog Voyager, and “probably within a week or two weeks of just calling it quits,” said Mr. Adams, a mechanical engineer with manufacturing experience. Moog Music Gives Employees More Control 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Straining to invest her character with meaning and weight, Ms. Schafer comes off as mechanical and unconvincing. | 'What She Knew': Oedipus? Mom Explains It All to You 2010-12-08T20:38:00Z Second, they were produced by a machine: a sensor-driven mechanical drummer and image-generator that translated street noise into both beats and drawings. In the Galleries: Putting the ‘gold’ in ‘Gold Rush’ Tesla's is connected to a mechanical steering system that's geared for 2.3 turns lock to lock, requiring the driver to reposition their hands with limited places to grip it during tight turns and parking maneuvers. Electric 'Hammerhead shark' Toyota bZ4X SUV debuts with Tesla-style yoke 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z “It’s a very rich life,” Dr. Lerch said before plugging in a pair of nodding mechanical lovebirds costumed as a bride and groom. Antiques: An Antiques Sale at Ross Art Group 2013-04-18T20:02:45Z In “Sharpened,” Braun’s show at VisArts, such period mechanical design is chopped into a variety of abstract forms, from International Style architecture to the sensation of movement. In the galleries: Blasts from the past 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Along with the elaborate overdubs they were already cramming into only four tracks, they took new delight in mechanical manipulations: loops, reversals, slowing things down, speeding things up. ‘Revolver,’ Newly Expanded, Shows the Beatles at a Creative Peak 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z I was underwhelmed by Colin Matthews’s “A Voice to Wake,” with its vocal line that felt somehow both sibylline and mechanical. In Focus Festival, Juilliard Salutes Public Broadcasters 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z This sui generis composer restricted himself almost entirely to a single medium, and an eccentric one: the player piano, that mechanical parlor ghost into which rolls of paper dotted with holes are fed. Review: The Whitney’s Conlon Nancarrow Festival is an Enchanting Tribute 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z In a world surrounded by ever-glowing LCD screens, there’s an analog chic to wearing a mechanical instrument. Tick, Tick, Tick, Chic 2011-07-06T19:58:31Z Then, purely on a mechanical level, it’s not interesting to read a character who knows everything from the beginning because what are you on the journey for? Talking to Victor LaValle about 'The Changeling' and the horror of parenthood, H.P. Lovecraft and more 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The mechanical models of clock mechanisms are of some explanatory help. Museum Review: National Watch & Clock Museum, Columbia, Pa. - Review 2011-09-08T22:42:06Z So I wore mechanical watches for much of my adulthood, which made me an object of curiosity and at least mild contempt among my friends, as though I were sporting a monocle or spats. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Why, yes, Gene, you can buy this watch for just $22,950 off the retail price! 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z It’s a very human-involved process as opposed to a mechanical process of capturing motion.” The Carpetbagger: The Human Touch and 'Planet of the Apes' Effects 2012-02-15T16:00:15Z “A mechanical watch relies on you as much as you rely on it,” Mr. Clymer said, with a hint of paternal affection. Tick, Tick, Tick, Chic 2011-07-06T19:58:31Z The mechanical feel of the loop gave the song something mysterious and tenacious; it stayed in the finished song, and has spawned innumerable looped drumbeats ever since. How the Bee Gees Stayed Alive 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Once they began dating, in early 2013, Ms. Wong and Mr. Jastrzebski, who are now both senior mechanical product design engineers at Google, often shifted back to their common language, engineering, to develop their relationship. They Passed the Ikea Test 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z They’re so cute: if you say “turn the other cheek” to them, their cheeks actually turn inside out and reveal their mechanical innards. Westworld recap: episode six – Maeve and Felix sitting in a tree, E.D.I.T.I.N.G 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Songwriters use music publishers to promote their works, and to do certain licensing tasks - for example, the licensing of "mechanical" rights, for the sale and distribution of recordings. U.S. considers updating music licensing accords with ASCAP, BMI 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z "Are you telling me that Sheriff Barclay arrested a mechanical man?" The Outer Limits: box set review 2013-03-08T08:00:02Z The human puppets are rendered realistically—in proportion, expression, and anatomy—and depart from the illusion only slightly, with several mechanical seam lines in the face. The Condescending Compassion of Charlie Kaufman’s “Anomalisa” 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z And Hearst — the relentless, mechanical face of the market, more brutal than any outlaw band for being organized and dispassionate — is running telephone lines across the wilds. Review: In One Last ‘Deadwood,’ the Future Prevails and the Past Endures 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z And in “Elephant,” soldiers secure the mechanical animal, festooned with feathers, which carries a crowd of clamoring soldiers at war with a group below. ‘Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois Tapestries’ Review: Woven Vistas of Pageantry 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z These 11 rather endearing mechanical creatures, operated by offstage technicians, sport triangular heads atop plastic tubing and glide around the stage while interacting with the singers. COT's dazzling 'robot opera' poses provocative new questions 2011-04-03T18:39:00Z Even the best transit system sometimes falls prey to bad weather or mechanical mishaps resulting in delays or missed connections. It seems easier to go carless nowadays. But should you? Here are nine factors to ponder. 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z "Barbie" states its message often, but at times, it feels more mechanical, like a doll talking, than motivational. In "Barbie," of course Ken hijacks the journey of empowerment in a misguided tour of the patriarchy 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z As factories became increasingly powered by mechanical means rather than manpower, it created a backlash from workers who found their jobs replaced, a reality still present today. Under Modernity’s Hood: Precision Engineering 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z There is the continuous rumble of the busy industrial street outside, with its mechanical parade of graffiti-bombed trucks and seafood delivery vans. Why Rosamund Felsen left Santa Monica for downtown's industrial arts district 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z And Mr. Kingsley — who here portrays a librarian trying to get bored students interested in what their teacher calls the “Dark Ages” — is transformed into the turbaned al-Jazari: 12th-century inventor, mechanical engineer, visionary. Exhibition Review: A Golden Age in Science, Full of Light and Shadow 2010-12-09T23:34:00Z It was during his long sessions experimenting in the workshop that he developed a fascination for mechanical processes – particularly the amazing things that can happen when stuff goes wrong. Artist of the week 176: Raphael Hefti 2012-02-09T13:32:00Z He describes the music as a contrast between something "loose" and something "mechanical." Seattle Symphony premieres Nico Muhly work 2012-01-23T19:12:04Z The casket is lowered into the hungry earth, the mechanical digger ceaselessly raining soil until the ground is once again level. Meet the incredible Mr Goodwin, daredevil extraordinaire 2013-03-01T14:00:00Z Dawn, high noon and sunset roughly divided the day for millennia, but the 18th-century spread of public clocks, domestic timepieces and watches hastened the rise of clock-time, beating a mechanical rhythm to work and play. The lap of luxury 2011-07-29T22:55:02Z Her work on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine, led to her being credited as the first computer programmer. A clean, well-lighted place for computer programming manuals 2014-02-12T21:26:57Z Part of the problem is that Addison's style is becoming mechanical. Chris Addison – review 2013-03-31T17:01:01Z Costumed like western movie characters in black hats and grungy clothes, with holsters at their hips, they appear possessed by a repertoire of stereotypical, mechanical moves. Joachim Koester: ‘Body Electric’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The company also refurbished the mechanical elements, installing a new metal chain, wheels and pulleys — lubricating it all carefully. Retooling the Met Opera’s Problematic ‘Ring’ Machine 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z We have many David Macaulay books, and I am a bit of a mechanical geek. Writing a novel about Jews set in 1942—without Hitler: “Once you mention Hitler’s name, his mustache is in the room. The stakes change” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Hugo has been repairing the automaton with mechanical parts salvaged from the toys he has stolen from a toy store in the station. | 'Hugo': Martin Scorsese?s ?Hugo,? With Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen - Review 2011-11-22T22:17:26Z The rush of recomposed, reinvented, and travestied masterpieces being diffused online today shows what happens when mechanical reproduction goes digital. Van Gogh paints DiCaprio: has Photoshop gone too far? 2013-05-20T15:21:46Z Plans to continue his studies as a mechanical engineer in London were derailed when he arrived in the UK in 2001 and met Don Jazzy. I'm with D'Banj 2012-06-23T22:30:01Z The role’s coloratura “mechanical” aria is demanding, to say the least. Villain and heroine: The real-life husband and wife onstage in 'Tales of Hoffmann' 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z We can dissolve and reconstitute them, tune them to have mechanical properties that will match the original tissue that is there, whether it be bone or cartilage or whatever. Fritz Vollrath: "Who wouldn't want to study spiders?' 2013-01-12T19:00:00Z They suffer when reproduced in photographs, for mechanical reproduction obscures the minute signs of the paintings’ handmade nature. Review | A portrait of Josef Albers, in all his originality 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z She also says that in a scene where her character was attacked by birds in a bedroom she was told the mechanical birds would not work, and that they would have to use live ones. Tippi Hedren: Alfred Hitchcock sexually assaulted me 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Allen Ginsberg described him as “a little mechanical or remote somewhere.” The Sheltering Sound: Paul Bowles’s Attempt to Save Moroccan Music 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z In 1949, she married Bernard Ashley, a rebellious, charismatic businessman with a knack for all things mechanical, who, once they launched the company, handled its financial and operational aspects. The Enduring Appeal of Laura Ashley 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It was the first mechanical record that I heard, and I was fascinated by it. The Buggles’ Song Launched MTV. After 45 Years, They’re Going on Tour. 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z You could walk through “Making Marvels” — the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s show of 16th- to 18th-century mechanical wonders that double as exquisite works of art — and miss the news. Science, Splendor and ‘Dresden Green’ to Impress a Sovereign 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z This acknowledgment of the unavoidably human dancer in the mechanical process — this drama — was Ms. De Keersmaeker’s swerve from her models in American postmodern dance. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Reprises Her ‘Fase’ 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z "They were more misadventures of a mechanical or weather-induced type," Ford told Playboy of the incidents. Harrison Ford, hurt in plane crash, had earlier aviation misadventures 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Aspects of DeFriest's rocky childhood, his creative and mechanical genius and the unthinkable torture and abuse he has experienced in prison are depicted via lively, if perhaps dispensable, animated sequences. 'Mark DeFriest' documents a Kafkaesque tale of imprisonment 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z A plane with Hillary Clinton aboard was grounded at LaGuardia Airport Sunday afternoon after suffering an unknown mechanical issue on the tarmac, a report said. Plane with Hillary Clinton aboard grounded after shaking, smoking from mechanical issue: report 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The mechanical plot includes the implausible and the inevitable, in equal doses. | 'Phoenix': A Flash in the Pan Carries Complications at TBG Studio Theater 2010-04-21T20:19:00Z Listen to the mechanical beat of the drums and the ultraprecise mesh of the twin guitars in “Ain’t No Use,” an unrequited love song complaining, “It ain’t no use to talk to you about love.” John Coltrane’s Unearthed Live ‘A Love Supreme,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Fear of the unknown, of unplumbed depths, rises up to challenge us in “Pacific Rim,” only to be beaten back by our determination and mechanical mastery. Disaster Films Plague the Box Office 2013-07-19T18:26:49Z Many of them were fresh out of school, running the gamut from mechanical to electrical engineers, because that’s mostly what was taught in universities, and almost exclusively to white men. The hard-charging space program: Breakthroughs, breakups and breakneck 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Xanman promised to fill an enemy with lead like “mechanical pencils,” making all six of those syllables sound as precise as the metaphor demanded. Perspective | Teen rappers Xanman and YungManny master the art of getting ahead of yourself 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z To make matters worse, all available mechanical ventilators are in use. In health care access, doctor privilege is real. This is how it works 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Lauda, an Austrian, was socially awkward, a little ferrety looking, and obsessive about the mechanical details of racing and the risks, which he endlessly calculated and recalculated. Making a Pit Stop in Formula One With ‘Rush’ 2013-08-28T12:16:47Z After the mechanical issue was resolved, predicted bad weather caused further delays. Delta flight carrying nearly 200 delayed 18 hours at New York's JFK: report 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z When she ridicules David for carrying a mechanical watch as opposed to a digital one, he tries to explain that the handcrafted mechanism imposes “a structure on the flux of reality.” Remembering a Lover Who Never Revealed Her True Nature 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Perhaps another mechanical musical treasure at the Morris holds secrets awaiting the chance encounter of another unsuspecting musicologist. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z “I like the idea of controlled chaos, where there’s a curated mess on top of a perfect cylinder, referencing the mechanical world but also a naturalistic world,” he says. | The New Ceramicists 2014-04-07T19:31:23Z The designer is still very much a hands-on mentor, according to Courtial, who started working with Cardin five years ago, after first studying mechanical engineering and then attending a fashion school. At 97, designer Cardin is still seeking fashion's next trendsetter 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z After working with a prototype, Ms. Galloway encouraged Karastan’s mechanical engineers to automate the winding process as well. The End of the Wonder Rug 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z The county owns the building, and for decades the War Memorial controlled all the mechanical systems, which badly needed updating. Milwaukee Art Museum Reinvigorates With Renovations 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z If it’s already at the gate, the delay might not stick if a mechanical issue can be solved faster than projected or crew members stuck in traffic arrive faster than they expected. Help! Spirit Airlines Left Us Behind in Guatemala City 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, the dancers did not seem like themselves right away, more mechanical than assertive, as if beholden to an idea of what the dance should be. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Youthful Dances Get a Youthful Jolt 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Hemingway, insistent to the end that drinking helped him, called liquor “the only mechanical relief” against the oppressions of modern life. ‘The Trip to Echo Spring’: On the trail of writers and drinking 2014-01-10T21:58:25Z At night, Alicia Keys also led a guided meditation where mechanical flowers hanging from the ceiling opened and closed like inhales and exhales. Rosalia, Lizzo, Cardi B wrap up over the top Miami art week 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Combining the mechanical and edible creates a fascinating level of unpredictability. The seasonal joy of "The Great British Baking Show" 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z He grew up in the Irrawaddy Delta in Myanmar, one of eight children, and came to New York in 1994 to study mechanical engineering; two years later he started cooking for his church’s annual fund-raiser. The Top 10 Cheap (and Well-Traveled) Places to Eat in 2016 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Incidents are analyzed thoroughly, more precautionary measures are taken, and the most infinitesimal mistakes, of the mechanical and human sort, are assessed. 'It's a terribly fine line': the stunt performers risking their lives for Hollywood 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The team that built it includes Dr. Ada-Rhodes Short, who specializes in robotics and artificial intelligence, and Lola Vars, a current doctoral candidate in design-focused mechanical engineering at Oregon State University. What’s So ‘Indecent’ About Female Pleasure? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Rather than crafting classic, grinning jack-o’-lanterns the engineers added some mechanical twists to their elaborate creations. Nasa scientists battle for best Halloween pumpkin with flying UFO and Pac-Man 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Perhaps, he thinks, he should start a foundation “that would help urban youth buy their first mechanical watch and learn to care for it.” Review | Gary Shteyngart takes aim at white male privilege 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z However, he was killed after stubbornly refusing to believe that the Rebel attack on the first Death Star posed a grave threat to his mechanical marvel. A Guide to the Returning Star Wars Characters in Rogue One 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z American Airlines told Fox News in a statement that the flight experienced a “mechanical delay that caused it to remain in Charlotte overnight.” Children on American Airlines flight not fed, given medication during 13-hour delay, parents claim 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z What’s striking is the way that artists keep renewing the relevance of the format, which hasn’t changed much, in mechanical terms, for well over a century. Lonely Voyage of Player,Piano and Audience 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z I liked the mechanical giraffe rigged up by a waterhole to demonstrate what should happen every time a giraffe bends down to take a drink. TV review: Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature; Nigel Slater: Life is Sweets 2012-11-05T22:00:01Z Metal debris was later discovered in the area where the mechanical issue took place. Plane with Hillary Clinton aboard grounded after shaking, smoking from mechanical issue: report 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z True to the title, there are a few hysterically funny moments as a couple of Victorian-era British doctors and an amateur inventor stumble into the creation of a mechanical device to pleasure women. Review: 'Hysteria' has a few oohs, aahs, no Big O 2012-05-15T14:30:20Z And the human heart is often understood as a mechanical pump. Why Do We Hurt Robots? 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Apprentices will learn about information assurance, telecommunications, IT infrastructures and architecture as well as other subjects including elements of electronic and mechanical engineering. How to get ahead in ... the secret service 2012-11-20T15:29:49Z Munch used many techniques of what Walter Benjamin called "mechanical reproduction" in his essay on "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction". Edvard Munch: the ghosts of vampires and victims 2012-06-22T21:55:13Z Around 99% of people with lower back pain who go to their GP have a mechanical problem that will usually sort itself out. Five things doctors do that they shouldn’t 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z In the first episode the dealers offer wads of cash for gas station advertisements, an amusement park ride, a samurai sword and a giant mechanical bellhop that waves one arm to promote Philip Morris cigarettes. 2010-01-15T06:40:00Z The local firm LMN Architects was hired for the project, which consisted of modernizing the building and its mechanical systems, expanding gallery and education space and preserving its art deco facade. Seattle Asian Art Museum to Reopen After $56 Million Renovation 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z As part of retrofitting, homes will often have mechanical ventilation systems installed. Cooking pollutes your home and increases your health risks — but better ventilation will help 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Christine McKinley, a mechanical engineer, asks a filmmaker with expertise in weird brotherhoods. Television Review: Searching for Clues in History?s Nooks 2010-12-01T22:28:00Z "We are seeing nothing widespread ... no systemic mechanical kinds of problems ... just the typical things we would see getting 3,200 people into the community and ready to go by 6 o'clock," White told WTHR-TV. Indiana voters head to polls for decisive election 2012-05-08T12:31:00Z “Humans,” the television show currently in its second season, offers us a contemporary world populated by robots known as synthetics — mechanical human look-alikes. How Do the Robots of ‘Humans’ Imitate Real People? 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z For the gallery space Mr. Piano has created a mechanical ceiling that moves up and down so curators can make the room airier or more intimate, depending on the needs of a given show. 2010-01-21T06:29:00Z He especially won your heart, though, during the tender scenes, as when the delusional Hoffmann romances the mechanical doll Olympia, thinking her a captivating young woman. Review: ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Wolf Man tries to get past a group of mechanical dolls who are all doing unison work. Remy Charlip, Dancer and Children’s Author, Dies at 83 2012-08-18T20:07:08Z Neanderthals, they posit, were empathetic; possessed at least some language; were companionable; strongly attached to family; able but not skillful at planning ahead; and demonstrated impressive mechanical skills. Books of The Times: ?How to Think Like a Neandertal? ? By Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge ? Review 2011-12-27T23:05:30Z There’s a wonderful moment in the 1951 Scrooge where Tiny Tim stands at the window of a toy shop watching the intricate mechanical toys bow and dance. Bah, humbug! The many faces of Scrooge 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z “The job of a good mechanical device is to help the puppeteer show life and character as intuitively as possible,” Mr. Dimbleby said. ‘Crow’ Features Birds by Handspring Puppet Company 2012-07-06T21:58:46Z But mechanical wizardry isn’t all that sets “Pedal Punk” apart. For Children Listings for Dec. 18-24 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Beside me, our pilot, Thomas, was riding the yoke as if it was a mechanical bull, trying to keep the single-engine Cessna steady as gusts roared in from the Southern Ocean. Explorer : Mud, Leeches and Stunning Beauty in Tasmania 2013-01-25T17:51:24Z At a time when so much pop speaks of constriction — with narrow singsong melodies, metronomic beats and desiccated instrumental tones — La Havas is determinedly expansive, and anything but mechanical. Lianne La Havas Traces the Arc of a Romance 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Slowly at first with a heavy plunk-plunk, then more quickly until the sound of grain hitting metal roared like some kind of mechanical wave. When it comes to making bourbon, why is corn so important? 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z This unique sense of time and place, Lawrence hopes, “will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.” A case for D.H. Lawrence as a father of modern travel writing 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The giveaways of the mechanical innards include excessive height, symmetry, perfect health and uninhabited branches — “I never saw a bird nest in a tower,” Ms. Burke writes. 5 Design Books That Are Easy on the Eyes 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Just mastering the mechanical action, let alone producing beautiful music, requires a special sort of musician. Druzinsky: CSO harpist known as a dedicated musician 2011-01-10T19:12:00Z But it’s also a bit blah in terms of its filmmaking, as mechanical in its camerawork as it is in telegraphing plot developments. Review: ‘Slash’ Has Proud Outcasts With Bold Imaginations 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Regardless of how many competitors Ultimate puts inside its mechanical dragon, though, we can be certain that not one of them will be capable of causing an earthquake. Ex-Seahawk Marshawn Lynch gets in twitter feud with Netflix’s ‘Ultimate Beastmaster’ 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “Angelology” would like you to buy all that without batting an eye and move ahead to the extremely mechanical mechanics that lie ahead. Books of The Times: Exotic Creatures and the Humans Who Chase Them 2010-03-01T06:01:00Z But as soon as he came to understand the mechanical songwriting process of modern Music Row, he abandoned the plan. Sturgill Simpson, a Genuine Alternative to Alt Country 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Bad weather and mechanical and medical problems are the main reasons that planes turn around. Chrissy Teigen’s Travel Nightmare ‘Happens More Often Than People Think’ 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z While poor in terms of electrical and mechanical services, a house like this has more soul and beauty – accidental as well as deliberate – than almost any new home in a modern British cul-de-sac. 1:1 with the V&A's Small Spaces 2010-06-09T20:30:00Z The plan also would add such visitor amenities as restaurants and bathrooms, protect the Castle from earthquakes and create shared mechanical systems and loading docks. Smithsonian’s $2 billion plan for area around Castle meets more resistance 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Another favored material is twine, which turns a chair into a cross between Rapunzel and Cousin Itt, and is also crucial to figures in “Sand Mill,” a small mechanical indoor earthwork from 1970. Art in Review: G?NTHER UECKER: ?The Early Years? 2011-04-14T20:27:51Z And for all their Ray and Tom foolery, they were fascinated by, and very knowledgeable about, the mechanical functioning and structural design of cars. Tom Magliozzi of NPR’s ‘Car Talk’ helped turn Saturday-morning radio into a joy ride The ultimate mechanical calculator here is in the lobby space: a working version of a “differential engine” invented by Charles Babbage over 150 years ago. Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. 2012-09-28T17:20:02Z This partly explains the longstanding appeal of a mechanical timepiece of any make. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z But the automaton, a mechanical doll animated by a complex system of spring-driven motors and brass cams, can write three poems and draw four pictures. Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorcese's 'Hugo' 2012-02-22T17:21:13Z Was it perhaps a hinged, fold-up vessel, one he could unfurl inside the bottle inside using those mechanical arms that park keepers use to pick up autumn leaves? God save the Queen 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z This version of Pinocchio, though, has a mechanical arm that can be fitted with a grappling hook to pull enemies into range or a flame-throwing device that incinerates them. Pinocchio Takes No Prisoners in a Punishing New Video Game 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Not much to listen to either, other than shouts, curses and the mechanical clicks and whirs of the building. Review: ‘Prisoner’s Song’ Delves Into Creativity of Confinement 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Its inhabitants are made partly of salvaged mechanical parts. | 'The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014': Oscar Shorts, From Surreal to Oh So Real 2014-01-30T22:56:19Z The Flagg building on 17th Street near the White House was closed in May to upgrade its mechanical, safety and electrical systems and improve bathrooms and accessibility issues. Homeless art, lost jobs and low enrollment: Two years later, Corcoran’s breakup still stings 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The device was developed by University of Michigan’s Glenn Green, who is an associate professor of pediatric otolaryngology, along with Scott Hollister, a professor of biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering and associate professor of surgery. The amazing way doctors are using 3D printers to save babies’ lives 2014-03-20T21:03:00Z The eldest of 13 children in a coal-mining family in Benton, Ill., Grammer spent his childhood on a farm, fishing the Wabash River and dreaming of becoming a mechanical engineer. Grand Ole Opry member Billy Grammer dies at 85 2011-08-10T23:16:02Z Stylistically, McCann leans very heavily on one particular syntactical formation, the sentence capped by two or more lilting verbless fragments, which comes to seem like a mechanical affectation. TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review 2013-06-01T07:30:01Z I write in black ink or a mechanical pencil, allowing my simple words to be the focus. The zen of journaling as you travel 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z It will also prohibit treatment centers from using sedation or mechanical restraints without prior authorization. Paris Hilton returns to Utah for ceremonial bill signing 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z In the kitchen, where equipment was emitting a series of mechanical beeps, the cooks maintained one grill at a lower temperature to cook the eggs. McDonald’s all-day breakfast: At 10:31 a.m., they served an Egg McMuffin. 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Many of these advances were underpinned not only by the railway revolution, but by a parallel “revolution in the publication of books,” music and images, fueled by cost-efficient new methods of mechanical reproduction. How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Here he shows India Shouting Match, a far from graceful confrontation of two competitors who yell at each other uncontrollably while being shoved together and hauled apart on mechanical pulleys. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z There is a music box quality both to his overdetermined narrative structure and fondness for mechanical devices. Portraits of Aristocracy in ‘Queen Margot’ and ‘Blanche’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Pulling back the face of the clock, I found a wondrous mechanical world to explore just underneath the surface of my favorite movies. I was a screenwriting guru groupie 2012-11-24T15:00:00Z Old postcards yellowed with age, broken mechanical items, and family photographs in discarded shoe boxes are all it takes for her to suddenly embark on time-travelling journeys filled with sorrow and joy, losses and gains. Are the V&A's quilts art? 2010-04-14T16:38:00Z A tourbillon, for the uninitiated, is a tiny rotating mechanical cage that helps a watch fight the effects of gravity. Baselworld, Where the Watch Is Still the Greatest Gadget 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z There are some things airlines can’t get around, like weather, mechanical problems, or even airplane groundings such as those involving 737 MAX 8 planes this spring. Should you fly with a carrier that scored lower on the Airline Quality Rating report? 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z One of the oldest images in the exhibition, from 1959, shows Montoya's car broken down on the side of the Grapevine — a testament to his playfulness, even in moments of mechanical frustration. With swagger and style, Jose Montoya's drawings at the Fowler document Mexican American life 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z We have surrendered our handwriting for something more mechanical, less distinctively human, less telling about ourselves and less present in our moments of the highest happiness and the deepest emotion. Philip Hensher: Why handwriting matters 2012-10-06T23:05:27Z And in “I, Robot,” poor Will Smith zooms around an unconvincing future Chicago in even less convincing leathers, trying to figure out whether a fleet of mechanical helpers has also been … Programmed to Kill. Plot Twist! Why 2004 Was a Surprising Year for Movies 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z “Good morning, how can I help you, my sweet Matt?” she asked, glossed lips parting and closing with a mechanical whir. What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Revenge of the Sith concludes by balancing the bodily past against the mechanical future. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z He deplores what he calls “mechanical form,” telling one interviewer in the 1990s that writing within certain rhymes and meters resembles “learning how to balance brooms on your head.” Books of The Times: ?Collected Poems? by Jack Gilbert 2012-03-13T12:00:00Z Prisoners are divided into groups and spend their days assembling mechanical parts used for unspecified purposes. From bureaucratic drudgery to prison labor, “Andor” shows how exploitation leads to the Dark Side 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Stanford supplied the money and the horses; Muybridge supplied the direction and the technical skill, though he sought out the Central Pacific Railroad's engineers and technicians to help him develop new high-speed mechanical camera shutters. Eadweard Muybridge: Feet off the ground 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z It also holds the largest, westernmost populations of bobolinks, a twerpy little black-and-white songbird with a complex, mechanical call. Birds by the Billions: A Guide to Spring’s Avian Parade 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Seeking to expand their export business to include mechanical music, the Bovets decided to market music boxes featuring Chinese songs. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z In 1951, East German authorities initially sought to block the Brecht-Dessau opera “The Condemnation of Lucullus” because of its “predominance of destructive, caustic dissonances and mechanical percussive noise.” A New Album Reflects a Composer’s Stubborn Versatility 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z For many generations in the postindustrial age, puttering around with the mechanical devices that surrounded us was practically a rite of passage, and for many, a way of life. “The Tinkerers”: How corporations kill creativity 2012-12-30T17:00:00Z After a few minutes, the mechanical paws are ominously — and repeatedly — reaching through the crack between the doors. 'Walking Dead' prepares to live year-round at Universal 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z This suggests a rather mechanical approach to painting, which is both true and misleading. From sketch to painting, there’s no single clear path 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z But speculation focused on some sort of mechanical problem rather than an error by Leeward, a popular racer. NTSB team arrives to investigate Reno crash 2011-09-17T19:52:00Z Could it be the legendary Sphere of Archimedes—a kind of mechanical planetarium, described by Cicero? Sunday Reading: The Ancient World 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Notably, the Skyliner was closed for over a week after an apparent mechanical glitch left some guests stranded in the air for hours during the night of Oct. Disney World’s Skyliner ride touts 1 million riders in first month despite malfunction mishap 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Structurally, it is built around a central core that will contain the main mechanical elements of the building, with the helix-shaped envelope supported by arced, fin-like girders anchored into this large, inner column. Review | The Helix is a distraction. Amazon’s new headquarters will change more than just its Arlington neighborhood. 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z After sitting on the tarmac for what seemed like forever, we were informed that there was a mechanical problem and the passengers would need to return to the terminal. The queen of the desert in the Arabian Peninsula 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The film is punctuated by mechanical sex scenes, and does not so much end as comes to a sudden halt. Movie Review: Cynicism Alongside Hope at Venice Film Festival 2011-09-01T12:30:05Z In “Show.Girl,” the opening number, six women perform a series of gestures that would be considered seductive if they weren’t so uniformly mechanical. Review: Ballet Hispanico at the Joyce Theater 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z A flurry of makeup, hair and wardrobe adjustment preceded each session, and during these a whir of human, mechanical and electronic activity coalesced around the goal of capturing a single moment of perfect stillness. Riff: On (Digital) Photography: Sontag, 34 Years Later 2011-05-08T05:30:17Z Born in 1942 into what she calls a “very WASPy Protestant family” in Wethersfield, Conn., the daughter of a mechanical engineer and a guidance counselor, Ms. Johnson made her first garment when she was 4. Reinventing Betsey Johnson 2012-12-19T23:32:46Z “My writing has got tighter and more concise because I no longer have to perform the mechanical act of re-typing endlessly,” he explained during an interview while in hiding. Emory University Saves Rushdie?s Digital Data 2010-03-15T22:06:00Z Wilkins did the work in his spare time, being employed first as a mechanical engineer and then a civil servant at the Ministry of Supply. Picturing science: Mapping the moon 2013-06-11T07:25:01Z The building’s mechanical systems — air handling, plumbing and electrical — need to be replaced, as does the building’s exterior. Air and Space Museum’s makeover estimated at $1 billion 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z A friend of Ravel's once described this small, dapper man, whose favourite possession was a mechanical nightingale in a gilded cage, as both a child and an old man. L'heure espagnole/L'enfant et les sortilèges; BBC Prom 33 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:35Z First, the airline canceled her flight because of a mechanical problem, forcing her to book a last-minute ticket home. Perspective | Why do airlines block their customers on social media? 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z "Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means." What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z Mr. Letts and Ms. Morton make clear that beneath the couple’s mechanical antagonism lies a profound emotional dependence with gnarled roots embedded deeply in love. Theater Review: Tracy Letts in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ 2012-10-14T21:52:14Z He has reinvented structures such as office towers and airports by moving bulky mechanical elements out of the way — to the sides, below ground — and letting light in. Norman Foster Is Still Looking Upward 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Presumably “Legends” is meant to seem more serious than those shows and skew more male in its viewership, but it succeeds only in being more mechanical, predictable and thin. ‘Legends,’ a New Drama on TNT Starring Sean Bean 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The music — a kind of mechanical cacophony I’d never heard before — landed in my life with no context, a meteor from the sky. I Was Bullied for Being Arab. Nine Inch Nails Threw Me a Lifeline. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z And in The Habit of Art Bennett showed that WH Auden relied on the mechanical services of rent-boys and that Britten's art was inseparable from his romantic, if unconsummated, attachment to boys. Alan Bennett: a quiet radical 2012-10-12T09:38:00Z A mechanical shark that didn’t always work, and some water tanks and wind machines. Summer Movies: Some Have a Blast 2011-07-17T01:13:02Z Never mind that the plane landed safely soon after, making the mechanical failure a relative nonevent. A Defining Question in an iPhone Age: Live for the Moment or Record It? 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z These saints, plus the paraphernalia of a few others, are conjoined into one all-purpose mechanical multi-saint in Michael Landy's Saints Alive show at the National gallery, where he has spent two years as associate artist. Salvaged saints: Michael Landy's martyrs invade the National Gallery 2013-05-22T18:30:01Z “I kind of homed in on that,” said Ms. Wong, who graduated from M.I.T. and received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford. They Passed the Ikea Test 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z For the first two-thirds of the season the Sea Shepherds couldn’t even get their three-boat fleet together because of mechanical problems and a failure to bring enough engine oil. Television: On the High Seas, a Mix of Danger and Bumbling High Jinks 2010-08-26T22:23:00Z In a book that is at its most literal when incorporating a mechanical Jesus, Cruickshank supplies flashes of mysticism. Books of The Times: ?The Chemistry of Tears,? a Novel by Peter Carey 2012-05-21T03:47:19Z “His expressions are snappy; the mechanical faces look softer and more fluid compared to Pinocchio. He’s built differently and animated in a different way to set him apart.” For ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ a Star Built From Tiny Gears and 3-D Printing 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Often they move as a pack, a horde, with drugged slowness or with mechanical precision. Dance Review: L-E-V Performs at Jacob’s Pillow 2013-07-26T19:49:48Z Her tools: black paper, an X-ACTO knife, a sketch book, a mechanical pencil, a cutting mat and an eraser. Artist Nikki McClure cuts her own path 2013-01-11T23:22:17Z Anticipating our future cyborg selves, some contemporary artists construct mixed-media pieces in which body parts meld with mechanical or electronic devices. Review | In the galleries: Matt Wilt wields a deft hand for his ceramic creations 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Considering all this, Stravinsky’s “Madrid” — written for mechanical pianola but presented in a two-pianos version by Stravinsky’s son Soulima — was perhaps too blithe and evocative to represent the evening’s thesis. Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Focuses on Works in France and U.S. 2013-08-19T22:00:34Z “If the special effect is created very well, most people don’t think whether it’s mechanical or not — they’re thinking about the story.” Carlo Rambaldi, Movie Maestro of Special Effects, Dies at 86 2012-08-11T00:01:55Z The characters speak a kind of bad-faith dialogue, often mechanical or contrary to logic. Review: Money-Hungry Women Scheme for a Better Life in ‘Can You Forgive Her?’ 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z However, a recent study in the Journal of Obesity found that a higher BMI was not a factor that led to different outcomes for covid-19 patients who required a mechanical ventilator. People are getting vaccinated due to their BMI. They have mixed feelings about it. 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Both were known to take apart mechanical objects as a way to probe the minds of the objects' original creators. Building an airship with Chris Burden 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Later he learned about orchestrions, the pneumatically driven mechanical orchestras that flourished in the 19th century, before the advent of commercial recording. 2010-01-30T00:49:00Z In the second scene, when Bob briefly comes around to Mary’s more jaundiced view of his brother, Liverman seethes along with the churning, mechanical sound that Slatkin elicits from the orchestra. Stream an Operatic Rarity by a Black Composer (While You Can) 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z The female dancers often recall rag dolls or mechanical toys, for little discernible reason. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Features Festival of Choreographers 2014-05-02T17:16:27Z If the multitude of images suggests the influence of mechanical or digital reproduction, Adams’s millennia-old medium demands human dexterity and spontaneity. In the galleries: ‘Transient States’ illustrates Steven Walls’s rigorous realism We knew it would be a mechanical bull, we didn’t know it would be 40 feet in the air and six degrees of motion with cameras that swirl. Game of Thrones Creators: ‘We Know What Happens in Each Scene’ of Season 8 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z “There is no battery, no electricity, just a mechanical handmade movement that powers the pistons and pushes the liquids that indicate the passage of time,” Mr. Perriard said. When Liquids and Mechanics Work Together 2013-04-24T15:32:10Z “It is very difficult to raise private funds for the replacement of mechanical systems . . . and those sort of things,” he said. Air and Space Museum’s makeover estimated at $1 billion 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Taking in the sea of mechanical piggy banks, musical instruments, cameras and other floor-to-ceiling treasures, my eyes spin like pinwheels. Pioneer Village in Nebraska, a blast from a highly inventive past A young cat gets dumped by his owners and makes its way to an eerie Victorian mansion where Lawrence, a retired magician, lives with a collection of pets and mechanical toys. 'Thunder and the House of Magic' full of worn-out tricks 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Finally, I cue up a tutorial by Julia Usher – a pastry chef with a background in mechanical engineering. Can you learn to cook like a chef by watching YouTube? 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z "Watt moved to a large house in Heathfield, outside Birmingham," says Ben Russell, the museum's curator of mechanical engineering. Watt's workshop at the Science Museum 2011-03-20T00:05:21Z Owing to financial constraints, Open Water lacks the electrifying shark footage of Jaws, in that it lacks a 25ft-long mechanical shark. Where are all the other great shark movies? 2010-07-08T21:36:00Z Yet while “Arrivals & Departures” possesses many traits long associated with Mr. Ayckbourn, it feels neither weary nor mechanical. Alan Ayckbourn’s Latest, ‘Arrivals & Departures’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Heche is still considered to be in critical condition following her crash last Friday, and a spokesperson says she is suffering from a "significant pulmonary injury requiring mechanical ventilation and burns that require surgical intervention." Anne Heche under influence of cocaine at time of crash, according to LAPD 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z In Mincek's work, rhythmic, mechanical squeaks jostle with the slithery noise of bows being brushed up and down the strings. Arditti Quartet/JACK Quartet – review 2013-05-07T17:57:04Z The U.S. airline said in a statement Flight 839 landed safely at Sydney International Airport "following a mechanical issue." United flight from LA lands safely in Sydney after declaring 'fuel mayday' 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z In other cases, such as mechanical difficulties, passenger compensation is up the airline's discretion. Why Airline Change Fees Exceed Passenger Compensation Fees 2010-03-29T19:20:00Z “Nowadays, no one needs a mechanical timepiece, and especially not to indicate such mundane information as given by chronographs, perpetual calendars or minute repeaters,” he said. Special Report: A Cut Above: Watches: The Triumph of Unnecessary Beauty 2011-03-23T15:28:24Z All the mechanical noises and sounds within the film — all the metal sounds — refer to the crematorium. ‘Son of Saul’: An immersive portrait of life in a Nazi death camp 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Finally, he concluded with a bit about his alleged teenage romance with a girl he described as “a cripple” with a prosthetic arm, a mechanical larynx and a portable dialysis machine. Comedian, Chastened, Gets Back to Laughs 2011-06-26T22:00:39Z After he left, she closed with “Umbrella,” still one of her most affecting songs, in which her mechanical repetition on the chorus — “You can stand under my umbrella-ella-ella” — sounded like the sweetest robot come-on. Music Review: Guarded by an Icy, Impervious Cool 2011-07-20T13:00:05Z These included inflatable figures and mechanical set-pieces that would emerge and withdraw at various stages throughout the concert. Watching the Stones Roll 2012-07-11T07:16:18Z I know that nonhuman, mechanical conditions can make it impossible to work at times. Worst co-worker ever 2012-07-24T00:00:00Z A typical gag concerns the squad of priests who act as the king’s bodyguards and spies and who, when danger seems nigh, produce a variety of mechanical weapons concealed in their hymnals. Portraits of Aristocracy in ‘Queen Margot’ and ‘Blanche’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Tal Yarden’s sound design envelops the proceedings in ominous atmospheric gloom:a distant howling wind; the cold, mechanical hum of static and feedback; and, finally, the thunderous exclamations of drums. Review: In a Powerful ‘Hamlet,’ a Fragile Prince Faces His Foes 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z The game is really mechanical, but I kind of learned how to play football like I play Madden — just run and get a touchdown. Why Kane Brown Loves Cookie Monster, Elvis Presley and ‘Ted Lasso’ 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Make a beeline for the zip line at Seattle Center opening Friday, plus inflatable and mechanical rides and other attractions as part of the Next 50 celebration. 14 top entertainment picks for May 20-26, 2012 2012-05-16T21:44:06Z Collier also emerges from this book as an artist for the age of mechanical reproduction, who tried to produce paintings that were at once mass-produced and personalised. Mr Collier's Letter Racks by Dror Wahrman - review 2012-12-21T22:55:01Z In Episode 9, after Loren exposes her mechanical internal organs, she leaves the story and moves back and forth from present to past. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z First there was Robert Musil the mechanical engineer, who invented a chroma meter, a device for evaluating color. ‘The Man Without Qualities’ Acquires a New Volume 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Curators now call them outsider art or visionary art, and regard Mr. Simpson’s work as distinctive interpretations of the old mechanical toys known as whirligigs. Vollis Simpson, Artist, Dies at 94 2013-06-05T14:16:49Z His parents watch in bewilderment as creepy little Iosif spends his days on the windy balcony of their Tbilisi apartment, spying the on harvesters across the wheatfields and tuning into the mechanical and human noises. The Banner of the Passing Clouds by Anthea Nicholson – review 2013-05-10T12:00:01Z Too often in the theater the final third of the play seems like a mechanical march of evil. 'Macbeth' succeeds in avoiding its onstage curse when it's on-screen 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z While visiting Vermont with Mr. Steinberg, from whom she separated in 1960 and who died in 1999, she became fascinated by farm machinery and began producing mechanical images with human overtones that she called “anthropographs.” Hedda Sterne, an Artist of Many Styles, Dies at 100 2011-04-12T02:27:12Z “It’s essentially based on a big inflatable with the addition of a mouth, a jaw and mechanical eyes,” Brooke said. Quills and thrills as prodigious porcupine puppet unveiled 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z “After the private jet broke down again with mechanical problems, I took a normal one the following morning,” he confesses in his tweet. Delta passenger who claims he flew on empty 'private' plane left out one important detail 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z It’s mechanical, so they work the head and the wings.” Spare Times for Children for Sept. 28-Oct. 4 2012-09-27T21:40:11Z Inwardly mechanical and outwardly entrancing, “Become Ocean,” the 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning work, was intended to drown you in sound, and it succeeds. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z The film’s futuristic sensibility is musically distilled by the soundtrack’s incorporation of the David Bowie hit “Space Oddity,” in which an astronaut finds himself suspended in space after a mechanical mishap. | '3': Tom Tyker?s ?3,? a Comedy of Adultery - Review 2011-09-15T22:32:35Z Some later works present quotations, rendered in mechanical fonts, by luminaries like the Marquis de Sade, Freud and Wittgenstein. Joseph Kosuth Show at Sean Kelly Gallery 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The groom, 29, works for Tube Supply, a Houston-based, family owned, mechanical steel tube and bar distributor that serves the oil and gas industry. Kelsey Vasquez, Cameron Sorensen 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z This would be, Mr. Gilligan added, “a very mechanical plot development that would force Walt to be guilty and second-guess his decision to become a drug dealer.” Aaron Paul of ?Breaking Bad?: Character and Career Both Live 2010-03-20T04:38:00Z In many ways, too, the human decoding work was more impressive than the mechanical. Where the Real 'Imitation Game' Happened 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Bottom line: Don’t have a scan or x-ray for mechanical lower-back pain in the first six weeks. Five things doctors do that they shouldn’t 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z He observed people “making errors – sometimes serious ones – with mechanical devices… computer operating systems… even airplanes and nuclear power plants.” Do guns or people kill people? 2013-03-06T13:12:00Z But as the wheels of change sputter and creak in Hollywood, he believes his prospects in the realm of spandex suits and mechanical shapeshifters aren’t exactly manifold. Kumail Nanjiani is the Romantic Comedian We've Been Waiting For 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z It was made in England around 1800 and traveled throughout Europe as far as St. Petersburg for 40-odd years in touring shows of automata and other mechanical marvels. Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorcese's 'Hugo' 2012-02-22T17:21:13Z In the age of mechanical reproduction, poetry is easy. Poetweet: A website that turns your tweets into poetry 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Three: The new picture reduces the role of Buba the mechanical owl, one of Harryhausen's signature inventions, to a perfunctory cameo. Clash of the Titans: A Hit from a Myth 2010-04-02T09:20:00Z There can be an abstract, mechanical quality to the way bodies function in these institutions, but even as people can look like moving parts in a large machine, the camera registers their individuality. Frederick Wiseman: The Filmmaker Who Shows Us Ourselves 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Burns overcame a tough upbringing in a New York City housing project to get a degree in mechanical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of NYU and then a master’s from Columbia University. What Warren Buffett, Richard Branson and Other Successful People Were Doing at Age 25 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Therefore NBC and Guthrie knew Sandmann’s answers were likely to be the result of ample coaching and delivered with mechanical precision, containing all the right verbiage to quell any questions about his actions . How the media centers whiteness: "Today," Nicholas Sandmann and "the others" 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The high emotional temperature of the performances can’t quite disguise the mechanical nature of the story — it’s at once over-plotted and flimsy, a welter of reversals and revelations that don’t so much resolve as collapse. ‘Everybody Knows’ Review: Penélope Cruz’s Homecoming Turns Frantic 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z My first impression was that it looked like a disturbing mechanical cat as imagined by HR Giger, with no face and an 8ft tail, waiting to be fed. Kitchen gadgets review: the Ozpig – the vaguely druidic way to heat your patio and cook a chicken 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Tyrell still has a way to go to liberate himself fully from slavery to the downbeat, which can make his interpretations sound mechanical and plodding. Review: Steve Tyrell Keeps a Comfortable Pop-Swing Style in Honoring Sinatra 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z We saw everything from pirate ships to huge mechanical hyenas – this year Burners can feast their eyes on a camel train of giant tea pots and play on musical swings. The crazy world of Burning Man – festival survival guide 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z It is topped by a wedge-shaped green-painted penthouse that Houben referred to as a wizard’s hat, an angular form that gracefully disguises mechanical equipment. A Glowing Shrine to the Printed Word 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Whereas sex when you are younger and less experienced can be more mechanical, she says, as you get older “you know each other better, there’s more trust, you’re more comfortable with your body”. The intimacy secret: how to have fantastic sex after decades together 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Could a player as physical as Beck handle the mechanical drive of electronica? Jeff Beck’s 10 Essential Songs 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z He switched to mechanical engineering and graduated with a master’s degree in the mid-’70s. Want to Find Fulfillment at Last? Think Like a Designer 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z I also get this when doing something mechanical with my work, like collage. 'Don’t be afraid to make mistakes': 11 ways to be more creative 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z The mechanical nature of the piece is apt, since “Soda Fountain Rag” was inspired by an apparatus. In the Galleries: Putting the ‘gold’ in ‘Gold Rush’ The groom’s mother retired as a teacher at the Earl Le Gette Elementary School in Fair Oaks, Calif. The groom’s father is a mechanical engineer for the California Energy Commission in Sacramento. Cassandra Campa, Ramit Sethi 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z I like to think of them as a means of mechanical exfoliation.” Power Facial-Cleansing Brushes Gain in Popularity 2012-07-04T15:11:34Z He was fascinated by the optical clarity of the mechanical eye, even as he exploited photography’s role as a documentary requisite for fame. Andy Warhol Through the Lens 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The 1920s, and the mechanical grids of that streamlined era, are a focus in these winter collections. Fashion Review: J.W. Anderson’s Mesmerizing Weirdness 2014-02-16T18:38:24Z As for the movie, I appreciate the mechanical ingenuity of “Third Person” a lot more now that I’m not watching it. Director Paul Haggis’ raw, painful confession 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z I was scheduled to connect with another American flight to London, but my overseas flight was delayed because of a mechanical problem. A dream trip ends early when her London flight is canceled 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The real operation went "as smooth as silk", according to Mendez, aside from a brief holdup over a mechanical problem with the plane. Argo – Ben Affleck's gripping CIA thriller sends reality into a tailspin 2013-02-22T09:00:02Z Hancock was born in Chicago and, at a young age, discovered the two things that would define his life: the piano and mechanical gadgets. Book review: Herbie Hancock’s ‘Possibilities’ “Black Sea” delivers on the action front, as the usual problems — mechanical failure, fire, explosion, leakage and sudden eruptions of violence — imperil the voyage. ‘Black Sea’ Stars Jude Law as a Seething Adventurer 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z She would later complete a doctorate in mechanical engineering, but her early work provided some of the fundamentals in sonic boom reduction technology. How history forgot the black women behind Nasa’s space race 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z What rendered most of the buildings uninhabitable was that their mechanical systems were in basements that flooded. Stage Fright: The Vintner Marco Pasanella Restarts After Hurricane Sandy 2012-12-06T21:37:21Z Even though, within the vague rules of the deadly game, Henry isn’t invulnerable, his rounds of mass mayhem are nearly zipless—pure, disinterested, mechanical fun, if that’s your idea of fun. The Zipless, First-Person Violence of “Hardcore Henry” 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z The 1980s, it said, were not the decade of a mechanical revolution but a cultural one. Review: ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Time-Travels to Silicon Valley’s Dawn 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The shot was well-executed: a zombie eating a dead man, then as the camera panned to the left, we saw Merle’s mechanical right hand. The Walking Dead Watch: Cincinnatus Rises 2013-03-25T15:15:36Z TAG Heuer’s Connected Modular 45 will allow owners to switch between connected and mechanical modules, a first for the Swiss watch industry. TAG Heuer’s Revolution: It’s a Smartwatch. It’s a Mechanical Watch, Too. 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z In Mr. Lang’s boisterous “Anvil Chorus,” Mr. Schick resembled a mechanical doll as he hammered out sharp metallic stroke cycles while activating gongs with his feet. Music Review: Steven Schick Plays Stockhausen at the Miller Theater 2014-02-03T22:38:14Z In Laura’s account, health care is intuitive and mechanical, a process of precise movements and calculations performed day after day and year after year. Review | Emma Glass’s ‘Rest and Be Thankful’ powerfully describes what it means to be a health-care worker 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Wednesday, but did not end up leaving until the next morning due to mechanical and weather issues, the Business Insider reports. Delta flight carrying nearly 200 delayed 18 hours at New York's JFK: report 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z He’s occupied himself with projects around the house, sewing a new seat cover for an outdoor swing and fixing the mechanical cover on their swimming pool. Alex Trebek Is Still in the Game 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z In a variety of mediums and techniques, artists “are trying to expand outside the canvas,” Alemani said, in some cases with mechanical devices that interact with various forms of life. A Venice Biennale Informed by the Pandemic Will Spotlight Women 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Sometimes, it is something unspeakable. There is no boundary between the human and the mechanical in Holzer’s work, and this is my favorite part. Light as Touch: Jenny Holzer’s Nighttime Poetry Projections 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Another result of the complicated machinery was a fair amount of mechanical noise on Monday night as the planks moved. The Gods Are Stranded as Set Misfires 2010-09-28T22:00:00Z Unlike the film purists that continue to keep mechanical methods alive, the audio set has fully embraced the computerized era. Making Waves: behind a fascinating documentary about movie sound 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Eric Smallwood’s “Possessions of a Randomly Acquired Mind,” also at BlackRock, is an animated video piece that matches closeups of biological and mechanical processes to outline drawings of men in motion. In the galleries: D.C. artist summons the supernatural in the everyday 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Men tend to view their partner getting sick in almost a mechanical way: they see it as a problem to be solved. The men who give up on their spouses when they have cancer 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Yet she was an ironist — the person you’d least expect to see, say, mounting a fat dude on a massage table and riding him like a mechanical bull. Olivia Newton-John: That Headband Was a Crown 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Unlike quartz watches, mechanical ones don’t need a battery because they derive energy from a mainspring that is either wound by hand or, in an automatic watch, by the natural movement of the wearer’s wrist. Watchmaker Zenith bets on new way of keeping time 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z As Kent, running interference between Taylor and Kimber as he tries to defend himself against his father’s casual slights, Mr. Hill is flat and mechanical. | 'Stick Fly': ?Stick Fly? at the Cort Theater - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:07Z But more often the band sounds streamlined, its guitars full of mechanical punch and not the street-fighting style of before. Music Review: New Gaslight Anthem at Webster Hall 2012-07-25T21:46:20Z The merits of the small-town atmosphere of the organ community might be open to debate, but the instrument’s mechanical ingenuity is not. Freeing the pipe organ from the usual grind 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The mechanical technology was not capable of handling the high traffic loads and customers began to flock back to groceries staffed by a team of humans. From computerized carts to "Chef Bots," how AI is becoming a bigger part of grocery shopping 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z There were three Americans in the car, and when Steppenwolf's grand road-trip anthem, Magic Carpet Ride, came on we all sang along – sang along, too, when a mechanical blip interrupted the chorus. Napster: the day the music was set free 2013-02-24T00:05:22Z Back at my apartment, the technician finally dropped by, tuned my piano and made mechanical tweaks to a few of the keys. Why Do Pianists Know So Little About Pianos? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Processing facilities like Riceland Crawfish in Eunice, La., soften the meat even further using a mechanical tenderizer with rotary blades before distributing it to suppliers. The Gator Finds a Place at the Tailgate 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Hand-painted to look as flat and mechanical as screen prints, they contain silhouettes and fragments of furniture or animals like walruses and camels with top hats for humps. | The Baldessari Variations 2010-10-25T20:49:00Z To the right are the galleries, which fill rooms of varying sizes and heights and are topped with a ceiling of aluminum mesh, through which mechanical equipment is left visible. New UC Davis art museum hints at fresh directions for American architecture 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Everything is deadpan: the skimpy mechanical beat, the hesitant guitar, the unassuming lead vocal. Gerard Way Sneers at the Apocalypse, and 12 More New Songs 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z In one horrific sequence, the filmmaker withholds from Hedren that real birds, not mechanical ones, will be used in a scene in which she'll be attacked at close quarters. HBO's 'The Girl' pits Hitchcock against Hedren 2012-10-20T00:31:05Z Uncle José taught me mechanical skills like welding, bolting, and painting cars. Born in Mexico, the chef Eddie Hernandez now calls Atlanta home, where he breaks every cooking rule 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z They display symbols of the liberal and mechanical arts — books, musical instruments, arms and armor, riding equipment, astrological spheres, Latin inscriptions on trompe-l’oeil tablets, masks and medallions with portraits and figures. Review: An Enigmatic Renaissance Master 2010-02-19T12:10:00Z The crew faced problems not only with their malfunctioning mechanical shark but also with seasickness, uncooperative tides, random boats sailing into the frame and even sets that sank. Bill Butler, Cinematographer Best Known for ‘Jaws,’ Dies at 101 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z Or alternatively, by an unresting and ceaselessly inventive eye, with a perfect visual memory, apparently in need of little mechanical help. Manet's portraits: the artist on the knife-edge of photography 2013-01-12T09:01:01Z Link to video: Terminator Salvation: 'Dead-eyed and mechanical' The Terminator will be back – and this time it's official. The Terminator is back 2013-06-28T14:46:47Z The mechanical, filled-in nature of these works is clarified with a display of collages on which some of the paintings here are closely based. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z “Critics assailed her style as plastic, placid, bland and antiseptic,” Anita Gates wrote in Page’s New York Times obituary, piling on by calling the singer’s voice “mechanical or sterile.” Patti Page: The Oklahoma Thrush With ‘The Tennessee Waltz’ 2013-01-04T21:54:52Z Split-second timing, once the exclusive domain of physicists and technicians, was now available to all, and there was no better symbol of the seismic shift from the mechanical to the electronic world. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The pregnancy supplies some suspense, of course, but the situation becomes curiously static, and the provocations increasingly mechanical. ‘Titane’ Review: Auto Erotic 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z In 1980 it is played by teams of 16 players, with mechanical aids such as a "steam bowler" and a "catapult", which require the batsman to wear wicker helmets and other protective clothing. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z The album artwork for the other installments in the cycle explore similar motifs of body modification via mechanical aberration: a limb converted into a machine gun, or thick electrical wires attached to her nipples. Arca Once Made Electronic Music. Now She Builds Worlds. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Their movements are a little mechanical but with an irregular rhythm and stretch that suggest an imminent breaking down or breaking free. At Ailey’s Spring Gala, Different Kinds of Hope 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Confusion reigns as they exchange their little piles, although they rarely drop the air of confidence in their mechanical actions. | 'Panic! Euphoria! Blackout': Wall Street: 60 Goats and a Soft Shoe 2010-10-14T22:43:00Z The greatest wonder of all is that this watch has a mechanical movement, much of it adapted from pocket watches created in the 17th century. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z It focuses on mechanical sounds, fixed tempos and repetitive sounds. Disco ain’t dead: how Beyoncé resurrected dance music and its queer history for "Renaissance" 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z “Situations arise with weather or mechanical problems, and you do not want your child involved in any lengthy delay without you.” After high-profile incidents, parents scrutinize airlines’ unaccompanied-minor procedures 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z She received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Claudia Leon, Becca Loftis 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z When he goes to gamble away his sorrows — in blackjack sequences edited with mechanical pizazz — thugs eventually rush in. ‘Wild Card,’ Starring Jason Stratham 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z It thrives on group dynamics, as its dancers draw from a menu of mechanical rolls, soft-shoe shuffles, gravity-defying frog-leaps and every kind of elastic undulation imaginable. Grupo Corpo: From troubadour tunes to techno trance | Dance review 2014-01-24T18:56:05Z In her central chapters, Fox looks at the means that those involved in technical and industrial work, particularly civil and mechanical engineering, used to communicate experiments and plans, inventions and achievements. The Arts of Industry in the Age of?Enlightenment by Celina Fox | Book review 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z Raising the frequency and the power of a mechanical oscillation improves the time-keeping performance. Precise Future of Silicon Parts Still Being Debated 2012-11-23T13:35:46Z I had talked to him about love for years, but I must have glossed over the mechanical piece. How to talk to kids about sex 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Some building designers, Van den Broeck discovers, ended their own lives after poor critical reception or mechanical failure led to disrepute. The Buildings That Drove Their Creators to Despair 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z This is a central preoccupation for Scorsese: the ability of cinema as a mechanical process to somehow plug into the human heart of an audience. Interview: Martin Scorsese 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z This includes, but is not limited to, cellphones, computers, guns and most mechanical modes of transportation. Jonathan Lethem Imagines a World Where Technology Stops Working 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z “Sewing Song” depicts the mechanical sounds and rhythms of a device that clearly hooked the young Wiggins. He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z The waters wrecked floors, walls, ceilings and all the building’s electrical, mechanical and air-conditioning systems. Houston’s Wortham Theater Center, Weeks After Harvey Struck 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Her feeling for disjuncture is built into the mechanical, unedited, all-at-once vision of the camera. Review | In new show, photographer Deana Lawson explores black lives, black loves 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z "All of a sudden I felt like it was mechanical -- the show, the music, everything -- and it's never been that way," he says. Chesney uses break from touring to brew "Whiskey" 2010-08-20T23:30:00Z In “Black White Forward,” a tall black and white panel with beige brush strokes and tacky surfaces leaning back like Rodin’s “Balzac,” the exemplary colors of mechanical reproduction feel curiously concrete. For David Smith, Sculptor and Painter, a Happy Equilibrium in White 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Argo was born in Fresno, Calif., in 1942, and graduated from Fresno State University with a degree in mechanical engineering. Warren Argo, much-beloved Seattle old-time musician, dies of heart attack 2010-10-02T00:31:00Z “It was mechanical, impersonal and killed a lot of time.” Family Matters: The Corner Stall Office 2010-09-18T02:08:00Z His skills as a draftsman, especially in watercolor, obviated any assist from a mechanical device. ‘Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting’ Review: An Unclear Creative Influence 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z The city, as he saw it, was evolving into a sensitive organism — or, to use a mechanical metaphor, a highly sophisticated robot, capable of responding to human needs. William J. Mitchell, Architect and Urban Visionary, Dies at 65 2010-06-16T05:19:00Z I wish I could report that despite the Dois Irmãos I’s decrepit appearance, our trip was without mechanical difficulties. An Amazon Cruise for $17 a Day. Hammock Not Included 2010-06-23T03:00:00Z I like to think using durum is a way to channel bread-makers from an age before the advent of mechanical mixing. What is durum wheat? (And how the heck do I bake with it?) 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z I didn't wonder why I loved that tale about the mechanical and the true nightingale so much. Cornelia Funke's top 10 fairytales 2011-07-06T11:38:18Z Another recalled thinking the mechanical monster was real as a child. Where ‘Jaws,’ the Ride, Lives Forever 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z Although mechanical heads are used for most of the key characters in the film, Pinocchio himself was animated with replacement faces. For ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ a Star Built From Tiny Gears and 3-D Printing 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Numan positions the car not as a mode of mechanical transport, but as a fetishised, abstract interface with the rest of the world. Old music: Gary Numan – Cars 2012-07-05T08:00:00Z But when envoys from the emperor of Japan arrive with a bejeweled mechanical nightingale as a present, the real nightingale, now overlooked, returns to the forest. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z Shortly before we meet, Reeves was on a flight between San Francisco and Los Angeles that was grounded due to a mechanical fault. Keanu Reeves: ‘Grief and loss, those things don’t ever go away’ 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Gutenberg’s mechanical printing press allowed for their wide public dissemination, as it did for the Bible — translated by Luther from mysterious Greek and Latin into accessible German. Martin Luther broke Europe in two, and Albrecht Dürer painted it back together 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z For much of the 20th century, however, woodcuts, linocuts, lithographs, silk-screens and other forms of mechanical reproduction were popular, pragmatic vehicles for socially contrary attitudes. The Week Ahead: Mar. 27 ? April 2 2011-03-25T14:27:11Z And even they, too, may wish it didn’t play out in such tedious mechanical fashion. ‘Justin Bieber: Our World’ Review: A Pop Star Enshrouded 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z It was no surprise that Damrau could sparkle with her coloratura as the mechanical doll Olympia. Munich's hit 'Hoffmann,' far-out 'Fidelio' 2011-11-28T14:46:10Z Further mechanical options allow the performer to experiment with color and interpretation — rather like Instagram filters. An All-but-Extinct Piano Plays Once More 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z A concentrated rebellion against the genre grew in popularity among rock music fans, who felt the genre was too fixated on mechanical sounds that lacked authenticity. Disco ain’t dead: how Beyoncé resurrected dance music and its queer history for "Renaissance" 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Doll had the engineering skills to help address these trends, including a degree in mechanical engineering, and experience in a family business that invented packing materials. How to make caviar sustainable 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z In addition to a delay, the plane jerked and bucked like a mechanical bull, and two men seated near me bickered over who was going to disembark first. What went right (a lot) and wrong (not much) during 20 days of hard-core tourism 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Soon after, Hitch shoots a bird attack in the studio, and instead of mechanical birds, he forces Tippi to do the scene with real and quite savage birds. Television Review: ‘The Girl,’ on HBO, With Sienna Miller and Toby Jones 2012-10-18T21:44:37Z Will we finally have a framework that allows us to translate the mechanical pieces and parts into private, subjective experience? 20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011-01-02T00:05:22Z But Mr. Farr’s production, led by a studied but mechanical performance by Greg Hicks in the title role, skims along the dark surfaces of the play without digging into its knotted existential depths. | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z The first weekend they took a more mechanical approach. After slow start, Loop 'L' project to resume 2012-05-07T03:25:00Z Researchers were uncertain as to the cause of these sounds, so mechanical engineers from MEF University and Istanbul Technical University, both in Turkey, launched a study to zero in on the audibles’ origins. Why your refrigerator makes such an unbelievable racket 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z There, she arrived suspended on a barbecue spit; later, she rode a mechanical pig. ArtsBeat: SXSW 2014: Lady Gaga’s Keynote Message — ‘Don’t Sell Out’ 2014-03-14T21:30:25Z He wheels his mechanical beast slowly past my door, its horrible lamprey mouth stripping and ripping up the ancient beige carpets and kicking up a cloud of toxic glue dust as it goes. Perspective | You call it a root canal. I call it a bittersweet symphony. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Combine an education system that neglects vocational training with a class system that denigrates mechanical labor and you eventually arrive at a nation of people who can’t change the oil on their Honda Civic. ‘The Spark and the Drive,’ by Wayne Harrison As the novel opens, Synchronic is about to launch the Nautilus, which takes things a step further, interfacing directly with your nervous system by way of a mechanical worm you affix to your forehead. Reading in an Emergency 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z When the dialogue isn’t flat and mechanical, it veers into risible noir-speak. Review: ‘I Am the Night’ Stitches Together Los Angeles Neo-Noir Clichés 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Chen Zhitong is the master of the crane, a game in which the player tries to grab up stuffed animals using a mechanical claw. WATCH: These men aren’t pinball wizards, but they’ve mastered the arcade 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z The stunt called for an Aston Martin to weave its way through a line of speeding, oncoming cars, but the car was plagued with mechanical problems. Suffering persists for paralyzed ex-stuntwoman 2010-06-16T02:36:00Z After his helping of American humble pie, in addition to fixing the mechanical glitches at Toyota, Toyoda might spare time to mend his public relations too. 2010-02-14T23:00:00Z Witty though they are, these works are too big, too flat, and suffer the same mechanical failings as grand 18th- and 19th-century history paintings. Turner prize 2010: Dark nights of the soul 2010-10-04T17:53:00Z Dr. Low, 34, is an aerospace engineer at Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford, Conn. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and received a doctoral degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Syracuse. Leslie Mayes, Kerwin Low 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Restrepo was born and raised in Medellín, the son of middle-class parents who studied mechanical engineering in college. Art born of the drug wars: Camilo Restrepo on 'narco bananas' and pen-on-paper violence 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Listen, monkey, I know I'm a mechanical, capering mouse. Review: Fame cuts both ways in 'The Big Knife' 2013-04-17T03:16:04Z A bicycle built for 20 and Jockey shorts: With both, telltale skid marks can indicate an internal mechanical problem. Style Invitational Week 1352: Hee-rotica 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z She moves forward with vigor, slicing her arms and elbows with mechanical precision or, later, slipping to the floor and scampering forward on her hips as her knees splay to either side. 2010-02-06T05:51:00Z But Croft’s mechanical direction often plays up the pathos, as when a character dies too dramatically, or in a scene where Amir prays for a loved one to be spared. Review: ‘The Kite Runner’ Trips From Page to Stage 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Impeccable but mechanical, they danced as if posing for a camera or for the watchful eyes of competition judges — understandably given their training so far. Fall for Dance Review: Some Tap, a Pas de Deux and a Monastic Chorus 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Ordering up another woman’s eyebrows seems mechanical to me, especially if every other client is having what you’re having. Skin Deep: Salons Offering a Menu of Pre-Selected Looks 2012-06-19T16:36:05Z Jehin has amassed a treasure trove of objects and machinery: dozens of flatirons spanning several centuries; soap powder boxes with their first advertisements; fine sheets; ancient articles of clothing; even the first mechanical washing machines. Going to a spa? Try the original one, in Belgium. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z He invites his pupils — of various shapes, sizes and backgrounds, speaking at least four languages — to undertake what looks like a fairly elementary, mechanical exercise. Movie Review: ‘Peter Brook: The Tightrope’ Follows the Theater Director 2014-01-30T23:35:57Z A mechanical glitch delayed the start of a performance of “Die Walküre” for 45 minutes — as 175,000 impatient Wagnerites waited in cinemas around the world for a live simulcast to begin. Retooling the Met Opera’s Problematic ‘Ring’ Machine 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z That’s because they draw a distinction between a mechanical problem within the airline’s control and an event beyond its control, also called an extraordinary circumstance or a force majeure event. Perspective | Here’s what happens when your aircraft is grounded 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z He pined for a mechanical watch, just like the ones worn by his rich classmates. The Watch Fund: Trading in Passion 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Collaborating with a mechanical engineer, the Rosenbaums turned all the modern appliances into fantastical contraptions. Cassandra Clare Created a Fantasy Realm and Aims to Maintain Her Rule 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Asked to examine an insanely complex mechanism, he releases those mechanical bees and inadvertently triggers a doomsday machine. 'Angelmaker': A clock repairman tries to stop the world's end 2012-03-14T19:55:04Z "Black Swan" features some of the most magnificent ballet sequences ever created for cinema, but Nina is supposed to be a dancer whose prodigious technique is a little cold, mechanical and even fearful. "Black Swan": Even better than you've heard 2010-12-03T01:30:00Z “He is responsible for the damage caused to the vehicle, because of bad use and not for mechanical failure.” Before getting in an unfamiliar rental car, take steps to minimize confusion 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z But that is the only mechanical element in a show that, by focusing single-mindedly on story and character, successfully brings home the bacon. Betty Blue Eyes ? review 2011-04-13T22:00:00Z There’s an exquisitely beautiful “Sleeping Beauty” from Madame Tussauds in London, an 1989 update of an 18th-century original that inhales and exhales convincingly, save for a little mechanical hiss. Real, or Too Real? A Dazzling Show Goes the Way of All Flesh 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Surely if anything can kill a show for good, it's the knowledge that a competition about sitting on top of a giant mechanical pig wasn't decided fairly. Saturday Night Takeaway v The Voice: this ratings 'battle' is no contest 2013-03-21T13:10:51Z He graduated from the Federal University of Uberlândia in Brazil and received a master’s degree in aeronautical and mechanical engineering from the Aeronautical Institute of Technology, also in Brazil. Finding Love at First Glance 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z “It’s the absolute truest test of a mechanical chronograph,” he said. Special Report: Watches: For Luxury Watches, Life in the Fast Lane 2011-11-24T14:00:41Z The thing that most people forget in our day and age is that any mechanical watch is certainly a luxury. Special Report: Watches: Hodinkee, Watch Cheerleader 2014-03-27T12:01:18Z Walt converts his basement into a lab of sorts, once he discovers “rot” while fixing the heater; fixing one mechanical problem only leads to discovering another, in an endless chain. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Refusing leave and rebelling against what he calls a mechanical abbatoir, he cries, on the eve of the battle of the Somme, "some crime against nature is about to be committed." Birdsong 2010-09-28T23:36:00Z “The movement is almost mechanical,” Mr. Ratmansky said recently at the company’s studios, “very strong, brilliant and sharp, with fast changes of focus.” ‘The Golden Cockerel’ Is a Ballet Bird With a Kick 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z In the past, he explained, Imagineers would gather in a room with, say, a mechanical hand and attempt to interpret how a cartoon would move in three dimensions. Inside Disney’s New Fantasyland 2012-12-21T16:55:27Z Asian artists encounter stereotypes that their music-making is soulless and mechanical. Asians Are Represented in Classical Music. But Are They Seen? 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Though the creakily mechanical exposition runs ninety minutes, into the second episode, it fulfills the function of, say, nine opening minutes in a feature. “Twin Peaks: The Return” and the Search for David Lynch 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z So he opted for a simpler look, one that focused more on the character’s emotional core than on his mechanical bells and whistles. ‘Bumblebee’ Through the Eyes of an Animator 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Inflation has even raised the cost of mechanical parts for the truck. Melting Profits Threaten the Ice Cream Man 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z A few days before the Lehman concert a Russian mechanical engineer living in Manhattan, Sergei Levitan, contacted The New York Times to denounce what he said was mistreatment of the players. Russian Orchestra Tour: Either on the Bus or on the Stage 2010-03-04T00:50:00Z His paintings involved a lot of mechanical reproduction. Art in Review: SIGMAR POLKE: ?Photoworks, 1964-2000? 2011-07-28T19:50:35Z “Ford v Ferrari” focuses on Shelby’s friendship with Miles, a British mechanical engineer who was crucial to Ford’s team as a test driver and became an eventual finalist at Le Mans. In ‘Ford v Ferrari,’ a Race With Plenty of Real-Life Characters 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z And while I need to rest at times, and sleep and eat, she never does – she comes on with an almost mechanical determination, and it is inevitable that she will catch me one day. TV review: Digging for Britain and Mistresses 2010-08-20T05:45:00Z Anchor escapement mechanisms, most commonly used in Swiss mechanical watches, regulate timekeeping using a mechanism that generates friction and must therefore be lubricated. Today's Challenge: Improving the Escapement 2012-11-23T13:35:50Z Devices to relieve muscle tension via mechanical massage are commonplace, but they were rather unusual in Kellogg's day. 11 of John Harvey Kellogg's strangest inventions 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Mark professed to know little about the mechanical side of photography and used a variety of cameras throughout her career. Mary Ellen Mark, photographer of outcasts and hidden beauty, dies at 75 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Number of years “From Pen to Press” focuses on, when old and new methods, handmade and mechanical, and parchment and paper, all coexisted. Walters Art Museum highlights the bumpy road of publishing, post-Gutenberg The film that The New York Times called “flat and mechanical” with a title character who was “blandly appealing.” A Message From the Gods: Keep ‘Lightning Thief’ Fans Happy 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z At its most audacious, the hand dryer is an expression of faith in the mechanical – in the premise that no cubic inch of our day is too trivial to remain unimproved by technology. Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z That includes $25 million immediately — if the deal closes — on the sort of urgent problems with the climate-control and mechanical systems that Stack cited. Corcoran Gallery’s lawyers conclude case for breakup but are strongly challenged Daniel Simonsen, a deadpan absurdist from Norway, leaned into this, emphasizing his accent and mechanical delivery, pointing out in his set that the expression on his face was no different from the mask. Live Comedy Is Back in New York! But Outdoors. Is This a Good Thing? 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Unlike a mechanical issue or being “bumped” off an oversold flight, weather delays don’t lead to any compensation, as long as the airline offers you some sort of alternative, England says. With weather delays in the forecast, air travelers should pack their patience and follow these tips 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z But as you spend time studying it, an anonymous, mechanical feeling sets in. Roxy Paine: ‘Denuded Lens’ 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The Jacquard loom, an early-19th-century mechanical loom that helped revolutionize the textile industry, used punch cards to direct the weaves, a precursor of computer software. Mark Barrow and Sarah Parke’s Homespun Abstractions 2012-11-11T22:48:11Z As the 1990s arrived, U2 went back to the drawing board, experimenting with harder mechanical rhythms influenced by German industrial rock. Bono, The Edge rock Toronto film fest with U2 doc 2011-09-09T11:31:11Z To try to understand just how big this trend has gotten, I spoke to Sarah Detwiler, who handles the new media and mechanical licensing for Camp’s work at Spirit Music. Remixing Smash Mouth’s “All Star” has become an art form, and its writer is loving it 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z I did the mechanical drawing for the cabinet and chassis. Why celebrity memoirs rule publishing 2010-12-13T07:59:00Z His rendition of Bach’s Partita No. 1, a suite of stylized dances, sounded rather mechanical and lacked a necessary dance pulse. Music Review: Andrew Tyson at Merkin Concert Hall 2013-01-24T22:22:23Z He began crafting miniature mechanical objects — a tiny, spinning chair or a Burden-inspired "not-so-big wheel" — out of sterling silver, each encased in a clear Pyrex glass bottle. Building an airship with Chris Burden 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z He broods, glowers, weeps and explodes when the engine won’t start and his own mechanical ineptitude causes minor floods and electrical failures. Movie Review: ‘Hide Away,’ Directed by Chris Eyre 2012-05-31T21:23:01Z During the meditation portion of the evening, Keys asked guests to inhale and exhale at the same pace as these mechanical flowers that were hanging from the ceiling opened and closed. Alicia Keys teases new songs at small show ahead of art fair 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Instead, their mechanical precision reinforces the vocal hooks, with synthesizers filling in the cracks. Haim, 'Days are Gone' review 2013-10-03T15:40:00Z Through the robot’s eyes, and haunting mechanical voice, we encounter a near future in which technology, ominously, has begun to render humans themselves obsolete. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z When the piano’s mechanical action, aka regulation, is adjusted properly, Brady says “it almost feels as though the piano plays itself.” Piano technician in tune with industry award 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Delegating to a team of technicians who worked in a Manhattan studio he called the Factory, the artist created a conveyor belt that consciously blurred the line between individual authorship and mechanical reproduction. Warhol's box of tricks 2010-08-20T23:03:00Z As the title suggests, Frank’s fourth book centers on the mechanical and the divine, especially on human efforts to bridge the gap, to create “a hawk from a handsaw.” New & Noteworthy Poetry, From Sign Language to Robot Saints 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z As evidence of Neanderthal mechanical savvy, the authors cite the creation of the spearhead. Books of The Times: ?How to Think Like a Neandertal? ? By Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge ? Review 2011-12-27T23:05:30Z The anti-commercial stance owes a lot to Mr. Pauline’s early experience as a military contractor, building 40-ton mechanical targets for Air Force pilots to practice on. Fire-Breathing Robots Bring Anarchy to a Chelsea Art Gallery 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z It's unfair to regard it as the Russian Mousetrap, even if the vast mechanical cage that snaps shut at key moments, locking the inmates on stage, reinforces the comparison. Sovremennik and the gates of hell 2011-01-04T21:31:00Z “The mechs are mechanical robotic creatures that fire guns and missiles out of their arms.” Television: Kindly Keep Your Mitts Off My Planet 2011-06-03T20:59:53Z We riffle through several more natural wines – all made with almost zero mechanical or chemical intervention – and they are certainly intriguing. The cult of natural wine – 'this is like punk or acid house' 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Sponsored by far more mechanical fliers — JetBlue — the shows feature both natural and trained behaviors. Getting Personal With Raptors and Cockatoos at the Bronx Zoo 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In typically Naumanesque style the work’s artificial, mechanical nature is fully exposed, creating tension between otherworldly fantasy and empirical reality. Art In Review: BRUCE NAUMAN: ‘One Hundred Fish Fountain’ 2012-08-09T20:22:12Z Elsewhere, the wacky juxtapositions feel less inspired, and the callbacks – to a chicken masquerading as Marc Anthony; to a Highland ex-lover of Emily Brontë's Heathcliff – are mechanical. Eddie Izzard – review 2013-05-08T16:52:16Z Like many of his creations, it amounts to a generic mix of mechanical, limb-jutting movements and passion that seethes just beneath the surface. Review: São Paulo Dance Company Makes a Tepid U.S. Debut 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z And while he is aware that his work has been described as mechanical – "and maybe I am sometimes" – it is something he has come to instinctively. James Patterson: a life in writing 2013-05-11T08:02:02Z “That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction,” wrote Benjamin, “is the aura of the work of art.” | Snap Tonic 2010-10-25T15:39:00Z In the age of mechanical reproduction, art more often arrives in sequences of multiple views or variations. Review | In the galleries: ‘Taking Territory’ exhibition finds the creative common ground 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z While Cooper considered which works to include, Wertheim was addressing mechanical and safety systems. Soon to rule the roost at National Gallery of Art: A 15-foot blue chicken 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z |
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