We talked many hours in a wheelhouse.
The two-story Tower Studio, a vertical building at the end of a narrow boardwalk, has twists in it that makes it refractory, like a jewel made out of wood; the Bridge Studio looks like someone broke off a piece of a SoHo loft and fixed it on a hillside; and the Squish Studio, which sits on a rocky promontory, has a view so dominated by water that it feels like a wheelhouse.
That's where Spielberg trumps Hitchcock in the annals of contemporary Hollywood: the former had a wheelhouse (a "brand," as we'd call it today); the latter is a shape-shifter whose ability to connect with audiences gives his work a misleadingly safe sheen.
Squeezing budgets was easier than meeting the star-in-a-wheelhouse-role requirement.
The vessels, which are usually built in Colombia, are designed to travel just below the waterline, with only an exhaust pipe, a small wheelhouse, and and an air stack sticking out above the water.
In a world awash in cookie-cutter chains, rentals offer one-of-a-kind experiences like spending the night in a static aircraft, a crane cab in the Netherlands, an English wheelhouse or an entire German wine country village.
A 1950 photograph of No. 84 that appears on the Night Beacon, a remarkably detailed Web site devoted to lighthouses and lightships, shows a squat red ship that looks like a floating bathtub, with a small curved wheelhouse, a row of portholes (even though there was nothing to see), a skinny funnel and two masts with rope ladders.
It needed cables, winches, and a fully equipped galley, a high wheelhouse for peering down at barges and a heavy keel for staying upright in storms.
The compact boat accommodates a kitchen, lounge, three cabins and two bathrooms, an aft deck, a sun deck and a spacious wheelhouse.
He said that it puts trainees in an imitation of a ship's wheelhouse, with a mobile view of whatever land features the vessel is approaching, so the trainee will recognize landmarks and other visual bearings.
The other, instead of being just inside the deck saloon in a guest area, is way forward of the saloon in a separate wheelhouse, with first-class visibility.
