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Glistening sweat in the violet sunset, they hoist the bus onto its back. The horde swarms over its body, urinating from on top. A '72 Dodge Challenger, stuck in the mud, is sucked up by the crowd. Before the driver can climb out the windows are bashed in. Out of the crowd arch Molotov cocktails, their path flickered across 8,000 forms, the fire mirrored on their foreheads. Lurching into the warm at top speed comes a bog car to the tune of I'm the King of Rock and Roll. It runs head on into the bus. The night...
...winds on the Thames River in New London, Conn., were so strong and gusty that the judges required skippers to hoist their storm sails...
Precise Images. Most of Codex Madrid I is filled with exquisitely fine engineering drawings: designs for self-releasing hoist grapnels, frictionless bearings, clock escapements, wire-making machines, worm drives and so on. For Leonardo, the drawn image was more precise than the written. One of the striking things about the machines in the Madrid notebooks is how they prefigure the future history of formal engineering draftsmanship without becoming schematic diagrams. They are conceptions rather than blueprints, but conceptions that one could take to a factory and have built tomorrow. More over, they are conceived as a series...
...creature. In fact, the odd contraption was a practical terrestrial creation. Designed by the All American Engineering Co. of Wilmington, Del., the Aerocrane, as it is called, is an unlikely cross between helicopter and balloon. It should easily outperform both in at least one important respect: the ability to hoist huge weights straight up from the ground and transport them across the countryside...
Cecilia Society, Donald Teeters, conducting. Mozart: Regina Coell; Litaniae Laurentanae. Hoist chamber opera Savitri. Tickets: $5-$2. Saturday, March...