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...comes with the territory. These films are not easy to make. Everybody knows when we go into it there will be physical things - tough stuff to go through like working in a tank with water cannons and the gimbal and the locking bolt and creating 100-foot wave effects. They know it's not easy stuff. I must tell you, I'm immensely impressed how all the actors were up to it. We had no real problems; I could do whatever I wanted to do with them. It was hard for them, yes, but they...
...when he dons special goggles and a DataGlove. His audience sees what he sees -- and what he does, which is bend and stretch like some contorted stork. His movements elicit eerie, tinkling notes from the computer-generated virtual instruments he is playing: a Cybersax, a CyberXylo and a Rhythm Gimbal...
...matter how preconceived the design, at the movement itself. It seems to come from elsewhere. The pliers only made the arrival possible." In recent years, Rickey's pliers - along with welding torch and sheet-metal cutters - have produced whole families of curiously moving metal sculptures that gambol and gimbal in the wind, slicing segments of time like pendulums or spinning until the sunlight splinters into a spectral blur (see color...
...piece orchestra in his own three-minute baroque version of The Twist. The white-maned maestro played the score "tempo a la Chubby Checker" after listening to one of the tubby twister's records and checking it with a metronome. Afterward, at a local nightclub to gyre and gimbal a bit himself, Fiedler adjudged the dance craze: "It's authentic primitive Americana, not from Siberia or Laos, I don't think it's physically unattractive either...
...great American adventure. Yet just as he finally does sail for the States (where he wrote most of his 23 books, and where he is still living and working, at 66, as a book reviewer for the New York Sun), McFee ends his story. When he daydreams of gimbal lamps and fiddley gratings, he illustrates his abiding fault: maundering. But when he describes a desperate journey on a sinking ship, he exemplifies his talent for hard factuality in a handsome style...