In pursuit of Jack the Ripper (David Warner, H.. G. Wells Malcolm McDowelll) flies his time-traveling contraption, a cross between a helicopter and a large coffee urn, from London in the 1890's to San Francisco in the late 1970's.
Cities sprout and recede around his time-travel contraption as it moves through the ages; one gawker says this glass globe with brass knobs and pipes probably makes quite a cappuccino.
I've been stranded in Chicago at 1am without a handicapped taxi in sight, my wheelchair battery blew a fuse in Portugal leaving me without a way to get around "independently" for 5 of the 12 days I was there, and I can't tell you how many times some contraption on my chair has broken while I'm away.
But what separates "Looper" from, say, "Timecop" or other rickety time-travel contraptions is that it explores exactly this kind of question to its full emotional consequences.
Or does it raise images of time-flying contraptions built by Victorians in velvet smoking jackets?
One of the presents the writer got at Christmas time is a contraption that enables you to sit in a chair and lie in bed at the same time in case you went to read in bed but do not want to lie down.
By Frank Sullivan The New Yorker, January 22 , 1938P. 17 One of the presents the writer got at Christmas time is a contraption that enables you to sit in a chair and lie in bed at the same time in case you went to read in bed but do not want to lie down.
This vision of tiny cogs working in the human body reveals how he saw us not as angelic wonders – the religious orthodoxy of his time – but as contraptions, our ligaments pulleys, our eyes cameras.
She could be excused, though, since it was her first time using such a contraption.
Later, while living in Manchester and working on the Town Hall murals, he painted Madeline Scott, daughter of CP Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian, sitting proudly astride her tricycle – the first time that such a contraption had ever been wheeled into a portrait painting.
