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...another corner is “Cenotaph” by Steve Hollinger, which consists of a lever one pushes to activate a flipbook inside a block of concrete. A series of prisms allows the viewer to see the negative silhouette of a man dancing with a spear and what resembles the hat of a Venetian gondolier. Hollinger describes the piece as “art for a post-apocalyptic era.” While the purpose may be hard to grasp, it remains one of the favorite pieces in the exhibit, according to Jack...

Author: By Jayme J. Herschkopf, | Title: Mather’s Three | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

...another corner is “Cenotaph” by Steve Hollinger, which consists of a lever one pushes to activate a flipbook inside a block of concrete. A series of prisms allows the viewer to see the negative silhouette of a man dancing with a spear and what resembles the hat of a Venetian gondolier. Hollinger describes the piece as “art for a post-apocalyptic era.” While the purpose may be hard to grasp, it remains one of the favorite pieces in the exhibit, according to Jack...

Author: By Jayme J. Herschkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mather’s Three Columns Exhibit Awes and Delights | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

Admittedly, the Iowa caucus is the most painstaking, complicated form of democracy to exist outside a campus women's collective. Instead of walking into a voting booth, pulling the top lever for President and randomly yanking the rest of them like you're supposed to, the caucus is a three-hour Monday-night political dorkfest reserved for the kinds of people who get psyched about jury duty. In 2000, only 61,000 Iowans showed up to vote, and it's not as if there's a lot to do in Iowa in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: Clive, Iowa: Like Jury Duty? You'll Love Caucuses | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...Admittedly, the Iowa caucus is the most painstaking, complicated form of democracy to exist outside a campus women's collective. Instead of walking into a voting booth, pulling the top lever for President and randomly yanking the rest of them like you're supposed to, the caucus is a three-hour Monday-night political dorkfest reserved for the kinds of people who get psyched about jury duty. In 2000, only 61,000 Iowans showed up to vote, and it's not as if there's a lot to do in Iowa in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Jury Duty? You'll Love Caucuses | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

ELEVATION AND DESCENT For vertical control, a wooden hand lever was connected by a chain and pulley to an elevator in the front. By pulling the hand lever back, the pilot rotated the elevator, causing the plane to rise. Pushing the hand lever forward would cause the plane to descend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Flies! | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

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