Word: unlock
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...Cambridge resident reported that someone broke into his restaurant and stole a cash register valued at $250. They also took a cash box containing $500. Access was gained to the building by prying the rear door and then cutting a hole through the wall to unlock the fire door...
...accommodated human desires, even if imagine was all they could do. So "Archilab" opens with a section called "The Pulsating City," full of models and drawings based on organic forms or made from flexible materials, like David Greene's witty Living Pod. The point of such work was to unlock the imprisoning grids of Modernism, to make the soap bubble as plausible a standard for construction as the cube. For their 1967 Villa Rosa project, the Viennese architects who call themselves Coop Himmelb(l)au proposed a dwelling made of attachable spherical modules. In the same era the British architect...
...Unlike her prerecorded video counterparts, Maya will vary workouts to keep them challenging. She will even ask how you're feeling during each routine and push you less or more - verbally and physically - based on your reply. Gamers will also encounter a familiar incentive: commitment to your routine will unlock hidden extras to keep you hooked before the physical rewards kick in. You don't get bonuses like that...
...dreamed up when in his 60s, Naipaul's fictional heroes are among the most complex in modern literature. Naipaul's strengths as a writer reach far beyond the concerns of the colonial and postcolonial. As Half a Life and Magic Seeds prove, his greatest gift is that he can unlock the closed cabinet of the male psyche and take out so much that is hidden inside: how it hits a man one evening that he has wasted his life, the way his sexual desire reawakens in middle age, the thrill he derives from seducing a friend's wife, the physical...
...Unlike her prerecorded video counterparts, Maya will vary workouts to keep them challenging. She will even ask how you're feeling during each routine and push you less or more--verbally and physically--based on your reply. Gamers will also encounter a familiar incentive: commitment to your routine will unlock hidden extras to keep you hooked before the physical rewards kick in. You don't get bonuses like that at the gym. --By Stephen Totilo