Word: spooling
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...composition of the prismatic prose piece to the linear marks on the clock’s face, each element of the exhibition is fastidious but not overbearingly so. There is a fine line between being finicky and being cerebral, and the artists tread this divide very carefully. One more spool of yarn or one more stroke on the clock-face, and the additions would have been a bit too deliberate.Though the installation is thoughtfully complex and utilizes its environment effectively, the separate components of the installation are not clearly demarcated. The lack of a traditionally defined area...
...snag the parafoil. The hook will then detach from the pole, although it will still be connected by a cable. At that point a pyrotechnic blast will fire a pin across the mouth of the hook, sealing it around the cable; finally, a winch will spool the cable out a bit, reducing the jolt on the helicopter. "It's a smooth transition in the mid-air retrieval," says Brian Johnson, the payload master aboard the chopper...
...watches as a spool on the company’s 1957 tractor cab winds up metal cables pulling the house into place. Since the lot is too small for a truck to drive the house in, crew members work under the house to point the wheels in the right direction...
During this period, writers composed articles by hand and gave them to a hired typist, who entered the stories into a device which encoded each letter as a sequence of punched holes on a spool of paper. The spool was then fed into a special printer, which decoded the punched holes and churned out a column of text...
...stick of butter or a spool ofthread in the Square," says Paul Corcoran, ownerof the Harvard Shop...