Word: levers
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...They didn't pull the lever because it was such a small fire," he said. "If you had a fire in your wastepaper basket, would you pull the fire alarm or would...
That certainly was true, I thought, but . . . The Fool was standing on his head juggling American flags. "Hear the sound-bite, pull the lever, Democrats are gone forever...
...Seventy years later, America sees in collage because it grew up spinning the TV dial. No such fragmentation of images was built into the culture of France or Germany in the 1920s. The relations between image and thing seemed solid. Here was something to overturn, and collage was the lever. Ernst fell on the common vein of reproductory images like a miner discovering a virgin reef...
...into place. Krauthammer rolls his wheelchair onto the ramp and maneuvers it into the van. Once inside, his wheelchair locks into place and becomes the driver's seat. His right hand operates a horizontal steering wheel that takes almost no effort to turn; his left hand rests on a lever that activates a vacuum pump that in turn operates both the gas and brake controls. When the lever is pushed toward the window, the van accelerates; when it is pushed toward the center of the vehicle, the van brakes...
...such a relief to have it out," said Annabelle Lever, a tutor in the Social Studies department who was at the meeting. "Why is it so hard to talk about these things? After all, they aren't new issues," she said...