| 单词 | Rube Goldberg |
| 例句 | They passed on from there to a Travel Hall, where they saw the car covered with tiles, and the functioning Rube Goldberg chicken device and the rusting Burma Shave ads on the wall. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Jessie had built the water wall along the eastern facade of the brownstone, inspired by a science class during which her teacher showed them different cartoons of Rube Goldberg machines. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I feel like I'm in an elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption that someone else designed. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z A Republican senator from Pennsylvania called the Mercury capsule-Atlas rocket pairing “a Rube Goldberg device on top of a plumber’s nightmare.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Rube Goldberg was an aficionado of Cuban cigars, mostly Macanudos. aging. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Cells of all sorts are commonly likened to biochemical factories, busy ferments in which dozens of mechanisms are working away in complex sequences that are half Rube Goldberg, half ballet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A few others might have been designed by Rube Goldberg. Reviving a Harry Partch Work With Hubcaps and Wine Bottles 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z They’re like a marriage of Tinker Toys and Rube Goldberg’s wit. Children’s Listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z The result was a sort of “Rube Goldberg Variations,” disguising virtuoso exertions with arcane mechanical gags. Music Review: Piano by Jacob Greenberg and Reinier van Houdt at Spectrum 2014-03-26T20:59:42Z These days, a “Rube Goldberg contraption” means a mechanism that accomplishes “by overly complex and humorous means what seemingly could be done simply.” Pootwaddles and Dunklewimps: Rube Goldberg’s glorious cartoons at MoPOP 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z “The Art of Rube Goldberg” reflects the artist’s era candidly. Pootwaddles and Dunklewimps: Rube Goldberg’s glorious cartoons at MoPOP 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z But the overall pattern of the play tips toward despair, seeing families as Rube Goldberg contraptions for the transfer of neurosis. Review: In ‘Make Believe,’ Four Children Meet Their Inner Adults 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z The difference is that Rube Goldberg never built his inventions; most are unbuildable. ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg’ Review: The Machinery of Humor 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z And outside, Mr. Groves sets those rustic Rube Goldberg devices, tip-ups. Ice Fishing Is Fun! 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z GoldieBlox, an engineering toy for girls that got began on Kickstarter, made waves last year with a viral video showing girls using traditional pink toys to build a Rube Goldberg machine. New GoldieBlox video rebels against 'Big Sister' beauty standards 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z It’s the oldest organization of its kind in the world, with notable members like Norman Rockwell and Rube Goldberg. The Daily Spike: Canine Companions model for sketch artists at NYC's Society of Illustrators 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z All Rube Goldberg contraptions are essentially parodies of a machine, something usually designed to be as efficient as possible. A Rube Goldberg Hand-Washing Contraption? The Race Is On 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Reed, who made “Down with Love” and “The Break-Up,” is the Rube Goldberg of modern comedy, and by far the best parts in “Ant-Man and the Wasp” involve action. “Ant-Man and the Wasp” Should Have Been the “Godfather: Part II” of Superhero Movies 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z There is even a huge Rube Goldberg contraption that teams reconfigure by hoisting one person 30 feet into the air to manipulate detachable chutes and planks. Ball pits, buskers and ‘ninja gardeners’: This business conference is a circus. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Three winning machines will be announced mid-June, and those videos will be posted on the Rube Goldberg website. A Rube Goldberg Hand-Washing Contraption? The Race Is On 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Essentially, it’s all a bit Rube Goldberg, depleting the power of the first section in which dancers, unlike the robotic avatars, manage to create unpredictable ways of moving — alert, precise and, above all, human. Dance Review | Koosil-ja: The Body, Visible and Invisible, in Three Parts 2010-03-04T22:48:00Z The Rube Goldberg Exercise Bike took Goldstein two years to complete, with plenty of stops and starts along the way. A retired engineer’s latest sculpture is a bicycle, back-scratcher and cookie dispenser — all in one 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z The contraption is overly complicated, like a Rube Goldberg design: the pipes are laid inefficiently according to directions written in 1989. Howard Fried's set of imperatives play out unexpectedly 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z It’s also been called the Rube Goldberg effect –– where you see the world as an infernal machine. ArtsBeat Blog: Errol Morris Interviews Stephen King 2011-11-10T14:39:00Z Watching “Virginia” is like studying a goofy Rube Goldberg gizmo. Movie Review: Schizophrenia in Dustin Lance Black?s Film ?Virginia? 2012-05-17T23:03:55Z “The Art of Rube Goldberg,” published in 2013, is in its fourth printing. A Rube Goldberg Hand-Washing Contraption? The Race Is On 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z The cumulative effect is one of labored intricacy, a Rube Goldberg machine of a novel that, for all its ambition, seems designed primarily to signify its own complexity. Boundary-Pushing Books for Fans of Narrative Experiments 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z Miller is, above all, a rational filmmaker—a supremely rational one, whose mighty set pieces have the intricately interlocked construction of a Rube Goldberg contraption set to the speed of a Road Runner cartoon. Ridin’ Dirty: “Mad Max: Fury Road” 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Rather, the purpose was to depict the ridiculous unfairness inherent to “driving while black” – and in the end, the car looks less like a hot whip than some kind of mobile Rube Goldberg device. “Hood Adjacent”: James Davis’ funny, necessary tour of the black experience 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Both are Rube Goldberg contraptions, all the more improbable for relying on the emotional reactions of their targets. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 5: The Long Con 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Back in California, I submitted to a month of tests—bizarre examinations performed on and beneath and inside Rube Goldberg machines—and at the end I was proclaimed a Celiac. On Death and Dignity 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z This is pure melodrama, starring a brave and resourceful steamroller of an early Rube Goldberg pattern and a gang of smugglers. When William Faulkner and Langston Hughes Wrote Children’s Books 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z In November, the toy company, GoldieBlox, gained widespread attention for a video which showed girls building an elaborate Rube Goldberg device and singing a version of that song with alternate lyrics celebrating their scientific achievements. ArtsBeat: Beastie Boys and Toy Company Settle Lawsuit Over Ad’s Use of ‘Girls’ 2014-03-18T16:02:29Z “Fall River Fishing,” written by Zuzanna Szadkowski and Deborah Knox, who also star, is a Rube Goldberg machine of a play: an entertaining spectacle of seemingly disparate parts that are actually interconnected. ‘Fall River Fishing’ Review: So She Dated an Axe Murderer 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z There the Wortmans kept up their connection to New York with a stream of visitors — Reginald Marsh, Rube Goldberg, James Thurber, Jackson Pollock, James Cagney and others. Gotham Chronicle: Sharp Eye, and Pencil 2010-11-19T20:43:00Z But it doesn’t end there, because it starts to look as if Zellweger chose the barman deliberately in order to ignite a bizarre Rube Goldberg sequence of events. Is Renee Zellweger's Netflix thriller the best trash TV show of 2019? 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z By contrast, the characters seem like mere megaphones or missiles, and the plot just a Rube Goldberg contraption for moving them into position to deliver the next fusillade. Review: In ‘Log Cabin,’ It’s Gay vs. Trans as the Rainbow Crumbles 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z 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 The utility of jokes is that they are perfectly engineered to trick minds out of ruts, manipulate thoughts in one direction or another, a Rube Goldberg device delighting through distraction. 5 New Comedy Specials to Remind You of the Old Normal 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z GoldieBlox gained widespread attention last month for the video, which showed girls building a comically elaborate Rube Goldberg machine while singing about their engineering skills. ArtsBeat: Beastie Boys Continue Copyright Battle With Toy Company 2013-12-11T18:46:10Z The sculpture replica looks like a Rube Goldberg contraption cobbled together from high-end kitchen utensils — spatula, cheese grater, colander, etc. — plus a few sprockets, some lab equipment and leftover lawn mower parts. 'Paintings of Moholy-Nagy' gives only a taste of the artist's eclectic body of work 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Stephen O’Connor, who teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, has engineered a Rube Goldberg machine of literary gadgets that shouldn’t work at all but somehow works wonders. ‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines his illicit affair 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z It's endlessly watchable, using a panoply of junk to create a colourful, impossibly complex Rube Goldberg machine. OK Go find more viral success ? but not real success 2010-03-18T23:05:00Z The Rube Goldberg extravaganzas on YouTube are celebrations of the opposite: Everything moves and everything is visible. ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg’ Review: The Machinery of Humor 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Up to that point, the movie is methodically constructed like a Rube Goldberg device; it’s vaguely reminiscent of the work of Steven Soderbergh, with an emphasis on process and behind-the-scenes relations. "Fantastic Four" Should Have Been Great 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Indeed, the Arctic described here is an ecological Rube Goldberg assemblage that for many years defied most attempts to understand it. To the Poles — Before They Started Melting 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Soaring camera moves, lavish set pieces and a Rube Goldberg approach to clever gadgetry inform this comedic battle between greedy arms dealers and a motley crew of junkyard pacifists. June 11 at SIFF: The festival goes widescreen with 'The Wildest Dream' 2010-06-10T20:53:00Z The first two episodes investigate a Rube Goldberg machine-esque electrocution at a Boxing Day curling tournament. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The video, released last November, depicts a group of girls testing a homemade Rube Goldberg contraption. GoldieBlox Tries to Prove Itself — This Time Without the Beastie Boys 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z They are a result of the way that the brain, a Rube Goldberg mental contraption, processes memory. Reasoning, Scholars Say, Evolved Just as a Means to Win 2011-06-14T11:55:00Z You may not know exactly who Rube Goldberg is. Pootwaddles and Dunklewimps: Rube Goldberg’s glorious cartoons at MoPOP 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z "Windmill Keeper" and "Clockwork Son" show off Sakuta's antic side, reading like a blend of Terry Gilliam's animation and a Rube Goldberg contraption. Bodies sprout drawers, antlers, more at Seattle galleries 2011-09-08T20:38:04Z Ambitious domino builders square off in this new competition show, in which contestants vie to create the most impressive toppling-domino arrangements, Rube Goldberg style. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Thing About Pam’ and the Critics Choice Awards 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z The grid is “highly inventive in places, totally stodgy in some, fantastically Rube Goldberg in yet others,” writes Bakke. The grid leaves us powerless 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z I imagined Bill’s brain, in gear like a Rube Goldberg machine, constantly flooded by a tidal wave of thoughts. Open adoption reunion: My first time with our daughter's birth parents since the hospital 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z In Steven Spielberg’s thirtieth feature, “The BFG,” the Big Friendly Giant of the title toils away in his workshop, an Aladdin’s cave as designed by Rube Goldberg, putting dreams inside glass jars. The Screenwriter of “E.T.” and “The BFG” Says Goodbye 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Resembling a colorful Rube Goldberg contraption, with waterworks, the 60,000-square-foot space lets children study the laws of physics while happily submitting to them. Science and Secrets in City Playgrounds 2011-04-14T22:10:38Z It features a linear Rube Goldberg contraption that functions a bit like a booby-trapped High Line. Artworks Along the High Line 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Sentences spin past like whirligigs, or like Rube Goldberg devices that emit a pellet of information only after bouncing off four increasingly unlikely surfaces. Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Kingdom of Speech’ Takes Aim at Darwin and Chomsky 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z A companion exhibition called “Rube Goldberg Illustrated,” drawing on work in Ms. George’s personal collection, is now being organized by the Pittsburgh institution. A Rube Goldberg Hand-Washing Contraption? The Race Is On 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z The cloned Aviary and Office are undeniably expressions of Mr. Achatz’s aesthetic, with his fondness for Rube Goldberg devices, audience participation, old ideas tilted off their usual axis and novel ideas launched into orbit. Grant Achatz, Science-Minded Chef, Turns to Cloning 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Perhaps Christie’s most acclaimed mystery, And Then There Were None is as tick-tock precise as a Rube Goldberg machine. A Gone Girl Reading List: What to Pick Up After Finishing the Book (Or Movie) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z While they may never top their creation of the world’s largest Rube Goldberg machine, the results here are nonetheless impressive. OK Go’s New Music Video for “I Won’t Let You Down” Won’t Let You Down 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z In another ruling, Engoron said New York’s review process for new housing “seems like Rube Goldberg, Franz Kafka, and the Marquis de Sade cooked it up over martinis.” Who is Arthur Engoron? Judge weighing future of Donald Trump empire is Ivy League-educated ex-cabbie 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z With enough proteins, you can form "sentences" — in this case, biological pathways that are a little like microscopic Rube Goldberg machines that allow life to do, well, everything. Did evolution occur before life even existed? New study sheds light on how amino acids "evolved" 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z But McCarthy was relying on a Rube Goldberg artifice to put words in Garland’s mouth. Analysis | The biggest Pinocchios of 2022 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z And they shouldn’t feel like the Rube Goldberg machine they currently are. The iPhone’s Focus mode (almost) kept me off my phone on vacation 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z I’m hoping all the disparate pieces of story and combat are being constructed like an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine that will start to make sense once I reach the game’s climax. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is as enjoyable as it is inscrutable 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Franz Kafka appears to have written the rules governing our student debt system, while Rube Goldberg collects the monthly payments. Student Loan Borrowers Don’t Deserve ‘Forgiveness.’ They Deserve an Apology. 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z “Why is this buying a stock like a Rube Goldberg machine?” How Robinhood’s Aparna Chennapragada is building the future of investing 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z “Some people like to do beautiful painting-like patterns on the floor. Other people like to do more Rube Goldberg elements.” Go inside 'Domino Masters,' where 'one wrong move' means disaster 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Something about the water’s arrival had to trigger another part of the body’s hydration Rube Goldberg machine. Your Body’s Thirst Messenger Is in an Unexpected Place 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z It’s about chaos and disorder, surging property crime, corruption in government, rising taxes and a city where progressive ideology inspires super-expensive Rube Goldberg policy solutions while precluding cheap, obvious ones. Opinion | San Francisco has problems. $12,000 trash cans are not the answer to any of them. 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z In many ways, the house resembles a Rube Goldberg machine with its level changes, interesting angles and unusual flow. Contemporary house in Potomac, Md., is full of dramatic spaces 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z “Why are there commissions? Why is this so hard? Why is this buying a stock like a Rube Goldberg machine? What is the mobile-first experience?” How Robinhood’s Aparna Chennapragada is building the future of investing 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z My technician, an elderly European gentleman who was elderly when I first met him 25 years ago, used every Rube Goldberg trick he knew to keep it sounding good. Opinion | It’s hard to sell a piano these days. It’s even harder to contemplate junking one. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z “Opera”: An “animation installation project,” a nine-minute day-night cycle depicting countless tiny humanoid figures executing socioeconomic roles in something like a human Rube Goldberg machine. The 2021 Oscar-nominated shorts: 15 films examine life's many conditions 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z “It makes me think of a Rube Goldberg device,” he said. My Wife Was Wary of My Lab-Made Dinner Party. The Faux Whiskey Won Her Over. 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z The Nov. 12 editorial “The case for ranked-choice voting” favored yet another layer of manipulable, Rube Goldberg complexity over more transparent simplicity. Opinion | Debating ranked-choice voting and open primaries for D.C. 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z The architecture of our democracy can be messy and slow, all too often resembling a Rube Goldberg machine. Editorial Roundup: Ohio 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Put your imagination and knowledge of physics to the test with Rube Goldberg Inc.’s 2020 challenge. Perfect the Art of Pickling and Ponder a Night of Poetry 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z “I don’t consider it” a reliable predicate for a criminal investigation, Barr responded, dismissing Swalwell’s reasoning as “a very Rube Goldberg theory.” Democrats seek to shame Barr over politics at the Justice Department 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z “It’s kind of a Rube Goldberg scenario,” she said. A Big California Quake Just Got ‘a Little Likelier’ 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z At Wired, Andy Greenberg reviews three such efforts, and all of them are absolute Rube Goldberg machines. Why Bluetooth apps are bad at discovering new cases of COVID-19 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z “For many years, people thought molecular computing involved taking what we do in silicon and mapping that onto molecules, which resulted in these elaborate Rube Goldberg devices,” Rubenstein says. “Punch Card” DNA Could Mean Cheaper High-Capacity Data Storage 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z In addition to drawings, films, photographs, and related ephemera, there’s an interactive Rube Goldberg machine, created just for the occasion. Fall Art Preview 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Both are fanciful flying machines that look a little like Rube Goldberg devices as designed by a slightly mad Edwardian. Perspective | Air and Space Museum used to feature flying machines of the strangest sort 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z A level of Perchang in motion looks like a Rube Goldberg machine. Perchang looks like Portal, but is more like Lemmings 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z It doesn’t entirely beat back the familiarity of the Toy Story formula, however, with its toggling back and forth between Rube Goldberg action setpieces and aggressive yanks of the heartstrings. Toy Story 4 lowers the stakes and ramps up the whimsy 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Dr. Nuttall, 73, lives on the Upper East Side with his wife, Marcia Lerner, 63, in a building once occupied by Rube Goldberg. How Charles Nuttall, Nobel Prize-Winning Doctor and Part-Time Santa, Spends His Sundays 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z He also said a government economic theory central to the case was worse than a Rube Goldberg contraption. Appeals Court to Consider AT&T’s Deal for Time Warner 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z While Democrats were busy trying to stand up and operate this Rube Goldberg contraption, Republicans were happily gloating. Will Dems ignore voters on health care again? 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Playing Perchang puts you in control of that Rube Goldberg machine. Perchang looks like Portal, but is more like Lemmings 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z Maybe it’s following a Rube Goldberg machine from start to finish. Working Hard Even If You Might Lose 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z A scientifically inclined independent thinker, Clara would rather be spending her time in the attic working on Rube Goldberg contraptions that socializing. Review: 'The Nutcracker and the Four Realms' is visually stunning but a little complicated - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z When you think of Rube Goldberg, you probably imagine complex, whimsical machines. Enjoy complex, crazy and absurd machines? Check out ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg.’ 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z For now, Facebook is making do with a Rube Goldberg machine of policies and improvisations, and opportunists are relishing it. Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s more of a Rube Goldberg machine that deconstructs bread making. New Hampshire campers make and bake bread at unique camp 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z He also helped rock band OK Go score a viral video by having a hand in constructing a massive Rube Goldberg machine. Two Bit Circus will bring an indoor game-focused theme park to downtown Los Angeles 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z What befell them Wednesday was a Rube Goldberg contraption of woe, one stroke of bad luck, or poor play, after another. The Save of the Year Saves the Capitals 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z That didn’t dampen the public’s enthusiasm for Rube Goldberg machines. Enjoy complex, crazy and absurd machines? Check out ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg.’ 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z It’s a bureaucratic Rube Goldberg machine that demands more paperwork than photosynthesis, but is workable nonetheless. How a D.C. law firm installed solar panels to help low-income people save on utilities 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Soon, however, the partners realized that their burger-making machinery was essentially “a Rube Goldberg device,” as McLamore put it, prone to breakdowns and malfunctions. David Edgerton, Burger King co-founder who helped make the Whopper, dies at 90 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z "It's like a Rube Goldberg contraption," he said, reflecting skepticism about a core piece of the Justice Department's case. AT&T is trying to undercut the government’s star witness in the blockbuster Time Warner trial 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z After decades of tweaks by the Legislature, the board and successive court decisions, it has become the financial equivalent of a Rube Goldberg machine. Oregon’s public pension system faces turnover at the top 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z “The Art of Rube Goldberg,” on view from Friday through Jan. 21, is the first comprehensive Goldberg retrospective in decades. Enjoy complex, crazy and absurd machines? Check out ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg.’ 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Obamacare is a Rube Goldberg contraption that is now falling apart. As Some Got Free Health Care, Gwen Got Squeezed: An Obamacare Dilemma 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Nancy’s husband ran into a nearby museum and returned with three young people who assembled a Rube Goldberg contraption — a pole, a wire — and then went sewer fishing and retrieved the ring. Perspective | Even the losers get lucky sometimes: More tales of successful retrievals 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z What if all the many giddy hours you spent stringing up Christmas decorations were actually unknowing labor toward creating a lethal Rube Goldberg machine? Better Watch Out is a surprising, strange Christmas horror-comedy about idiotic boys 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z And if all that happens, Hardaway’s path back to the Knicks will be something to behold: a sort of Rube Goldberg machine of wayward deals and mismatched parts. With Phil Jackson Gone, Knicks Make Another Puzzling Decision 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z To celebrate that influence, the museum is hosting a Rube Goldberg Machine Contest for high school students. Enjoy complex, crazy and absurd machines? Check out ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg.’ 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z He constructs complicated Rube Goldberg contraptions in his tree house, which is designed in Tim Burton Lite. Review: ‘The Book of Henry’ loses sight of its own plot 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z But even if he is guilty — even if he has a smoking gun in his hand — it would still take Rube Goldberg to oust him. Don’t count on the precedent of Watergate to help depose Trump. We got lucky 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Apparently Charles Krauthammer — who while rightly scoffing at the Rube Goldberg complexity of the current system, ignored the profoundly conservative aspects of a true single-payer system. Opinion | The role single-payer health care could play 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z He particular enjoyed deconstructing the Rube Goldberg action of the gritty Doyle, while offering suggestions within the context of such a highly personal swing. If Tiger Woods called it quits ... - Golf Digest 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z And he scratches the itch to build a Rube Goldberg music-making machine. Can Can Wonderland wants to putt-putt St. Paul on the map 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Threading the needle while managing the wonky Rube Goldberg contraption that we've set up and foolishly work to maintain. The G.O.P.’s Health Care Death Spiral 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The city has to resort to Rube Goldberg financing deals because 319,000 people - 30 percent of whom live at or below the federal poverty level - can’t supply all the “incentives” that developers demand. Recent Missouri Editorials 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z “They are all Rube Goldberg machines,” he said. Even Math Teachers Are at a Loss to Understand Annuities 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z The designer is a combination Rube Goldberg and Jony Ive, building beautiful, wildly complex tables and chairs that call into question even the basic definitions of such furniture. Q&As With 3 Furniture Design Stars 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z The result was mandatory ownership of insurance with arrangements like the state insurance exchanges, a Rube Goldberg system never destined to survive but necessary to get started. Recent Missouri Editorials 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z At times, the long-term poor seem buffeted amid the gear work of some diabolical Rube Goldberg contraption: She got pregnant so she quit school so she never learned fractions. Racial, partisan divides shape American views of poverty and the poor 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z "HD video was a natural choice for format. And OK Go – being such a creative band – was a perfect fit. Also, there is an interesting connection between Rube Goldberg machines and molecular biology." Health Buzz: DNA Could Be the Future of Data Storage 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z At the end, he has to solve this Rube Goldberg contraption before he can finally get the food. Here's Why 'Birdbrain' Should Be a Compliment For Barry, designing a functioning Rube Goldberg machine that could incorporate classic magic props like a cup and balls and a disappearing flower vase was complicated enough. How a magician orchestrated the Lizzy Caplan decapitation scene in ‘Now You See Me 2’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Consider his enthusiasm: bicycles, toys, Rube Goldberg contraptions. 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure' is an oddly comic odyssey 1985-08-09T04:00:00Z In the film, meticulously arranged junk including stepladders, tyres and a flaming bale of hay produce a spectucular chain reaction a Rube Goldberg project. Fischli and Weiss: hamming it up at the Guggenheim 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Gore told students Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist who created elaborate ways to complete simple tasks. Fifth-graders are budding engineers 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z After half a day of shooting, we finally got what we were looking for: one and half minutes of a Rube Goldberg machine that explained monetary policy. A Machine to Explain Monetary Policy. Why Not? 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z GoldieBlox, the girl-focused building toy company famed for its viral Rube Goldberg machine ad, is back with a new action figure. This New GoldieBlox Ad Reimagines Famous Action Movies With Female Heroes 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Positing a giant Rube Goldberg device is science, exactly on the Sherlock Holmes principle—that when everything else must be discarded, what remains must be true. Building Castles on Stars 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Behind the screen’s simulated 3-D workplace is an apparatus — part Rube Goldberg device, part disemboweled pinball machine. Artists have come out to play 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Next, students worked on a Rube Goldberg project. Fifth-graders are budding engineers 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Shooting a Rube Goldberg machine is tough — there’s no way around it. A Machine to Explain Monetary Policy. Why Not? 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z “There were a lot of people back in the day that built stuff that was very ‘Rube Goldberg.’ Alabama River Raft Race returning to Selma 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Trying to combine revenue maximization into a clinical process results in a system best described as a Gordian Knot designed by Rube Goldberg. The Cure for Doctor Dropout 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z At times, it’s like being trapped in an inadvertent Rube Goldberg machine, with so many dependencies built up over the years that even simple tasks become complicated. OracleVoice: Don't Rube Goldberg Your IoT 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z In other ways, however, the movie offers a more mechanized view of human nature, with the mind as a labyrinthine Rube Goldberg machine. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Inside Out’ 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z So we thought that we would try to fix that problem and illustrate monetary policy in its most natural metaphor: as a Rube Goldberg machine, a complex contraption that performs simple tasks. A Machine to Explain Monetary Policy. Why Not? 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The death penalty is an elaborate Rube Goldberg device with a thousand moving parts, each one expensive and in serious disrepair, to achieve a dubious end. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Abolish the Death Penalty 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z It certainly lived up to this somewhat strange, Rube Goldberg billing in two of the cocktails Jacob shook, or perhaps that should be NitroBrewed, for me. The New Alcohol Alchemy: NitroBrew Cocktails 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Our article said that the inventor was one Charles Michaelson and not Rube Goldberg, who was only 14 years old at the time and probably still in his early better-mousetrap phase. A Given Chair Can Be Sublime, Seafaring or Just Silly 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z This week, we met college kids channeling wacky inventor Rube Goldberg, we finally saw Age of Ultron, and we learned it's harder than we thought to set up a weed dispensary in Vegas. The Weekender: Rube Goldberg, Age of Ultron, and MDMA 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z We then spent several afternoons looking for the most interesting Rube Goldberg machines on the Internet. A Machine to Explain Monetary Policy. Why Not? 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z It’s kind of like a mix of beer pong and food parkour and a Rube Goldberg machine. Watch This Guy Dunk Oreos in the Most Creative Ways 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Every year, Rube Goldberg Inc., the company established by Goldberg’s son, hosts nationwide competitions at middle school, high school, and collegiate levels with new challenges. Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z So, we get these Rube Goldberg systems, and we get a lot of abuse of various kinds. Charlie Munger's 2015 Daily Journal Annual Meeting - Part 2 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Rube Goldberg became famous for his comically complicated machines well over 50 years ago, but his inventions may be more popular today than ever before. The Weekender: Rube Goldberg, Age of Ultron, and MDMA 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z The third problem arises because the Obamacare law represents a Rube Goldberg set of compromises, designed to meet the needs of special interests rather than the needs of ordinary people. Why We Should Replace Obamacare With A Universal Health Tax Credit 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Built in the shadows, protected from democratic accountability, the government developed into a Rube Goldberg contraption that has only a weak claim to a defensible social purpose. The False Hope of a Smaller Government, Built on Tax Breaks 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Of all the crews in the national championship, the SES team is the least experienced: half the team are freshman and none have ever participated in a Rube Goldberg competition before. Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z In November 2012, the Technion posted a video of a Hanukkah Rube Goldberg machine that ended with the lighting of a menorah. Dominoes, Pulleys and Plagues: Students Design Rube Goldberg Machine for Passover 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Unlike Rube Goldberg’s whimsical contraptions, Mr. Goldstein’s is no mere cartoon. An Engineer Creates for Fun After a Lifetime of Workaday Rules 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z At middle school in Newtown, Conn. he constructed Rube Goldberg machines. Datto: The Secret Tech Money-Making Machine You've Never Heard Of 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Today, our tax code resembles more a Rube Goldberg device than an efficient system for raising money to fund the necessary operations of our government. Seeking Legal Immigration Status, Longtime New Yorker Can’t Return to U.S. 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z "Any Rube Goldberg machine worth its salt goes viral." Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z The students from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology—used elements ranging from matzo to foil to create a Rube Goldberg machine. Dominoes, Pulleys and Plagues: Students Design Rube Goldberg Machine for Passover 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z On his visit, Obrist discovered a sheet of brown wrapping paper on the floor with the entire Rube Goldberg schema drawn on it. Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Curator Who Never Sleeps 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z “It’s so luminous. You’re surrounded by these enormous circles of white light, but at the center is this almost Rube Goldberg contraption.” New York Today: The Week in Pictures 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z It will require an ancillary spacecraft deploying either a huge capture bag or a Rube Goldberg contraption resembling a giant arcade-game claw. Human spaceflight: Find asteroids to get to Mars The relevance and appeal of Rube Goldberg machines today, George told me, is in what it reveals about how technology — and the way we live with it — has changed. Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z That said, I do think they are engaging in Rube Goldberg like machinations of semantics to accommodate this particular and peculiar phenomenon and thus making their jobs much harder. When Women Become Men at Wellesley 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z “I was really into the Rube Goldberg books. I was always thinking about new gizmos and new machines.” Not Just Another Selfie: Storehouse Lets You Tell The Whole Story 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z This is where that charmed few who believing building is better than buying meet to show off everything from custom jewelry to drones to massive Rube Goldberg machines. Everything to do, see, and read this weekend 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z It was a bit of a Rube Goldberg command structure, but it worked. U.S. Faces Tough Struggle on Ground to Oust ISIS 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The Penn State SES team has previously participated in regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contests, but they’ve never qualified for nationals before. Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z If the dates were flipped, there is little doubt that voters affected by Obamacare would wreak havoc on the politicians who imposed the Rube Goldberg contraption of exchanges on them. Obamacare's Next Open Enrollment Starts In Two Months - And It Will Be Awful 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Like Rube Goldberg machines run amok, the path to results grows ever more elaborate and convoluted. How to Create Innovation Cultures That Keep Working 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z So the House and Senate are fighting over how to get money in the fund, and the fight has boiled down to “pension smoothing,” a budgetary gimmick worthy of Rube Goldberg. ‘Pension Smoothing’: The Gimmick Both Parties in Congress Love 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z I, being English, would call the ACA a Heath Robinson machine, you as Americans probably a Rube Goldberg one. Court Strikes Down Obamacare Exchange Subsidies; Proving That The Secret To Good Legislation Is KISS 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z When we watch the movements of a Rube Goldberg machine, "it’s our world that we’re seeing, and it makes us appreciate our world. You don’t see that nowadays." Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z And before that, they performed alongside a magnificent Rube Goldberg machine. OK Go's long history of viral music videos 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Generally speaking, they are Rube Goldberg contraptions, best replaced by something more straightforward – like direct spending programs. Congress Should Abolish All Tax Breaks For Higher Education 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z These early ventures are sometimes marvels of Rube Goldberg contraptions, cobbled together with items as varied as discarded beer cookers and yogurt-making equipment. Off The Shelf: Craft Brewers, Finding a Better Seat at the Bar 2014-05-10T16:25:24Z In it, Hersh detonates the Rube Goldberg of “evidence” concocted — not too strong a term now — to support the Assad-did-it case after the gas atrocity in Syria. Barack Obama pulls a George W. Bush: Lies, misinformation and chemical weapons 2014-04-10T23:00:00Z Made famous by 20th century cartoonist and erstwhile engineer Rube Goldberg, the machines that carry his name accomplish mundane tasks in over-elaborate ways — ideally with a sense of humor. Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Rube Goldberg: A comically involved, complicated invention, laboriously contrived to perform a seemingly simple operation. High & Low Finance: Sacrificing Sense for Speed in Markets 2014-04-10T17:52:12Z A specially created Rube Goldberg machine - a contraption named after the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and inventor who created outlandishly complicated mechanisms to perform relatively simple tasks - will also be unveiled. Coltrane to open art school building 2014-04-09T07:02:27Z The case that will be heard on Monday involves interlocking judicial decisions, statutory provisions and agency regulations complicated enough to make Rube Goldberg blush. As Obama Vows to Act on Climate Change, Justices Weigh His Approach 2014-02-19T23:47:41Z As for what the new ad will be like, Sterling says it will be more polished than her Beasties-tracked video, which featured a group of girls setting off a Rube Goldberg contraption. A Super Bowl Spotlight for GoldieBlox 2014-01-30T22:58:21Z In the late ’80s, Rube Goldberg’s son, George W. George, created a company called Rube Goldberg, Inc. to manage registrations, trademarks, and licenses. Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z In the first half of the 20th century, Rube Goldberg was the Thomas Edison of the newspaper comics pages. Books: Exploring an Inventor’s Cartoons in ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg’ 2013-12-09T20:19:48Z The Art of Rube Goldberg: “An artist who followed the logic of the machine to its comic climax.” Physics Week in Review: December 7, 2013 2013-12-08T13:15:02.788Z A trio of young girls, bored watching TV shows about princesses, build an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine while rapping over the Beastie Boys’ ’80s single “Girls.” Fight For Your Right to Parody: Beastie Boys, GoldieBlox and the Future of Commercials 2013-11-26T14:06:17Z No ad agency was involved with the Rube Goldberg ad. How Toy Company GoldieBlox Is Launching With Creativity And Leadership 2013-11-22T18:37:00Z "A beautiful, precision marble run. But it was not a Rube Goldberg machine. There was nothing about it that was a Rube Goldberg machine." Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z As “The Art of Rube Goldberg” shows, he was also an all-around cartoon man, not to mention an authentic American eccentric and wiseacre. Books: Exploring an Inventor’s Cartoons in ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg’ 2013-12-09T20:19:48Z We need to throw a wrench in the gears of the intricate chain of thoughts and actions that create the "Rube Goldberg" of habit. How to Break Bad Habits 2013-09-30T19:31:00Z “It’s like a Rube Goldberg of little pipes.” In Natural Networks, Strength in Loops 2013-08-20T17:15:00.780Z They received support from some private property advocates including the Cato Institute, which said the 9th Circuit approach would force property owners into a "Rube Goldberg" hopscotch across different federal courts to recover. Supreme Court accepts raisin case tied to Depression-era law 2012-11-20T21:48:53Z "I think the internet gave Rube a whole new meaning, a whole new life," Jennifer George, Rube Goldberg’s granddaughter told me. Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z All else aside, though, it’s his Rube Goldberg inventions that made him a lasting cultural presence. Books: Exploring an Inventor’s Cartoons in ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg’ 2013-12-09T20:19:48Z So, like any kludged system, the maintenance of the exceptions degrades the performance of the whole, crazy, Rube Goldberg machine. The Big Fix #3: How To Untangle The Mess With Software Patents 2012-10-21T19:11:10Z To deliver the one-ton robotic geologist near the mountain's base, engineers designed a contraption that would make cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg beam. History littered with failed Mars probes 2012-08-02T22:57:54Z Critics of the law would say Rube Goldberg. What Roberts' Health Care Ruling Means for the Country 2012-06-30T01:05:31Z Though in life Rube Goldberg was known to the world as a cartoonist, he was first an engineer. Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z In less than a minute, the final ball had dropped to the ground and was pocketed by Joseph Herscher, 26, the kinetic artist behind this real-world Rube Goldberg machine. Brooklyn?s Joseph Herscher and His Rube Goldberg Machines 2012-01-06T20:08:34Z “This is my Rube Goldberg machine,” says George Feldstein, with an impish grin. Crestron Electronics: A Made-In-America Success Story 2011-11-16T17:00:16Z In truth, the complexity of Cain’s proposal would impress Rube Goldberg. Ponnuru: Bad Math Hurts Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan 2011-10-18T00:23:06Z Were these Rube Goldberg contraptions, cobbled together because everything else failed, or were they cannily improvised solutions to an increasingly dire problem? Japan?s Try-Anything Nuclear Response Draws Criticism, and Sympathy 2011-03-18T15:30:19Z Iowa State is awarded Best Design, "even though it didn’t really work that well, and it wasn’t really a Rube Goldberg machine," Jennifer George said as she presented the award. Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Four years ago, with no particular training in sculpture or mechanical engineering, Mr. Herscher built his first Rube Goldberg machine in the living room of the large house in Auckland, New Zealand, where he lived. Brooklyn?s Joseph Herscher and His Rube Goldberg Machines 2012-01-06T20:08:34Z It's the nature of a medium so complex it would've made Rube Goldberg blanch. ESPN: Mea culpa 2002-11-18T06:00:00Z “It’s also been compared to a Rube Goldberg invention,” he remarked. Judge Hints He May Rule Against Health Law 2010-12-17T02:23:35Z As it tried and failed to plug the leak with various Rube Goldberg contraptions, any communications strategy was prone to backfiring. P.R. Missteps Fueled Fiascos at BP, Toyota and Goldman 2010-08-21T22:29:00Z As they assembled it, Rube Goldberg’s granddaughter, Jennifer George, raised her eyebrows. Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z After the top kill didn't work, engineers put together a Rube Goldberg containment system, one that used multiple ships, floating riser pipes, a new sealing cap and other hardware borrowed from around the planet. With BP's know-how and U.S. authority, the Macondo well was plugged 2010-08-21T04:00:00Z “The legislation is a Rube Goldberg contraption,” he says, “and there are very long timelines before the Volcker rule is fully implemented.” Paul Volcker Pushes for Reform, and Regrets His Past Silence 2010-07-10T20:09:00Z He called their blueprint "a Rube Goldberg scheme" designed for their self- serving interests. A CEO's Playbook for the Climate War 2010-06-03T21:00:00Z The authority's financing for the incinerator was a Rube Goldberg contraption. Special report: The incinerator that may burn muni investors 2010-05-12T12:28:00Z "We were trying to make a machine that was interesting visually, to push what ‘Rube Goldberg’ means." Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z But this feat of junior-high engineering left one question hanging: If this were al-Qaeda, wouldn't it have been easier to replace this Rube Goldberg apparatus with a single, devout suicide bomber? Times Square Car Bomb: Evidence Suggests Amateur Plot 2010-05-04T08:55:00Z Tangled party line But if there's a whiff of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" in China's efforts to mold minds, there's also a dollop of Rube Goldberg in its missteps. From China's mouth to Texan's ears: Outreach includes small station in Galveston 2010-04-25T04:00:00Z The Rube Goldberg machinery of governance in Washington was just too convoluted and rust-ridden to handle something so huge in one giant bite. 2010-01-21T07:25:00Z “They put forth a proposal for a Rube Goldberg scheme where they would get information to Lynne Stewart in prison and delay decisions a few months while she ponders it,” he said. 2010-01-16T07:01:00Z The machines are digital, not mechanical, but the difference between the maximalism of the Rube Goldberg machine and the minimalism of the iPhone is perhaps not so great after all. Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Paul Koslov, his face still bandaged following plastic surgery, spent a couple of hours in the Rube Goldberg department inspecting the latest gadgets of his trade. Revolution The Francis Pfleuger we are concerned with did his inventing in his kitchen rather than in his basement; nevertheless, his machines were in the Rube Goldberg tradition. The Servant Problem Rube Goldberg’s host of admirers throughout New York City and suburbs look forward to his latest comic creation, “Bobo Baxter,” appearing in the Evening Journal daily. What's in the New York Evening Journal America's Greatest Evening Newspaper I would suggest, if we Americans can pitch into this great movement, some gargoyles designed by Mr. Rube Goldberg. The Complete Book of Cheese To qualify for the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest college nationals, teams must first compete at regionals. Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z The canonical supplier of bizarre, elaborate, and non-functional gadgetry — where Rube Goldberg and Heath Robinson shop. The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 The earliest iteration of the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest took place for a few years in the early ’50s between two engineering fraternities at Purdue. Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z I said, ‘Waiting in line for the Rube Goldberg roller coaster.’ Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Rube Goldberg machines are fickle by design, and one errant step can derail the best-laid machine. Inside the surprisingly dark world of Rube Goldberg machines 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z |
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