Some have contended that, ambitious as she was, she engineered a meet-cute with Hemingway at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West; but whether she set out to seduce him or was somehow swept into his orbit, she was soon entranced by his talent and reputation, his romantic attraction to her, and his commitment to the anti-fascist cause in Spain.
"We weren't as well engineered, I think," she joked.
But for this viewer, it looked as engineered as the torch-lighting ceremony in Sydney.
Christine's sisterly protectiveness becomes increasingly possessive, as she tries to engineer a rupture between Léa and Clémence.
Before that, they lived in Greenwich, and worked in Manhattan -- he as an engineer, she as a dietitian.
But realism is every bit as engineered, as stylized, as non-realism; it's just that the tricks are different.
He and his wife Lavondra found stability in the midwest; he as respected engineer and she as a member of the South Bend entrepreneurial community.
In New York, she trained for a time at A & R Recording, the "boot camp of recording engineers," as she calls it, one of whose founders was Phil Ramone, the celebrated record producer and engineer who died last month.
According to those who have worked with her, Mayer is as confident leading a headstrong team of male engineers as she is on the front cover of an upmarket glamour magazine.
She moves quickly through the house, directing staff and engineers as she talks.
