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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...

Author: By Lillian Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Exhibit Defines Time, Space | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Here Comes the Sun | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Victorian House Hits the Road | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Handwriting, Lead Slugs Give Way to Computerized Production | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

...stick of butter or a spool ofthread in the Square," says Paul Corcoran, ownerof the Harvard Shop...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Old Days of Quiet Neighborhood Die | 2/17/1995 | See Source »

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