And it is usually the most creative and aspirational among us who stake out these places early, namely the artists and the entrepreneurs, but also the pornographers, who have in the past deftly commandeered first-generation versions of other new media — including video cameras, Web sites and chat rooms — bound for the mainstream.
"Progress commandeered nineteenth-century buildings and then, as the economy weakened, left them to crumble behind fences that showed conceptual drawings of new ways of living, where blurred illustrations of humans lingered in paved squares that looked neither public nor private".
He also was not the pushy CEO who commandeered the first debate or the combative sparring partner of Debate 2. From the first minute in this discussion of foreign policy, President Obama tried to pick a fight, but Romney was just ducking punches.
Two older boys commandeered the second machine — sophisticates, with rusty bullet casings shoved into holes in their earlobes.
They had commandeered a fifth place by pushing their vast baby buggy — unfolded, of course — against one of the tip-up seats.
Swaggering across the stage of Frederick P. Rose Hall toting bottles of Jack Daniel's and cracking dirty jokes, the Rat Pack commandeered the second night of the 2013 New York Cabaret Convention on Tuesday evening.
Clarke then commandeered a second taxi — a shiny new Peugeot with impeccable tires — into which we bundled ourselves, along with an elaborate picnic that had been prepared by Hector's fiancée.
In 1959 — the good old days, by contemporary crime standards — five youthful pirates in two boats commandeered a third rowboat and robbed two young men of a ring, a watch, a bracelet and a pair of shoes, with socks.
Mr. bin al-Shibh's presence there is the earliest known link between Mr. Atta's Hamburg team, which included three of the Sept. 11 pilots and trained mainly in Florida, and the men who commandeered the fourth plane, who trained in California and Arizona.
Commandeering the first car at hand -- it happens to be a yellow Ferrari -- an F.B.I. scientist named Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) pursues Patrick Mason Sean Conneryy), the world's most attractive escaped convict.
