By Steven Beschloss July 19 , 2013In 1942, at the New York mansion of the American industrialist John Pierpont Morgan, crowds filed past a large mural titled "Automatic Hitler-Kicking Machine," which depicted a complex and satisfying contraption involving a cat, a mouse, a stripteaser, and the Führer.
Getting (the point of) either kind of verbal contraption involves appreciating what the speaker has brought off in producing it.
If you're broken contraption involves electricity, DO NOT D.I.Y. unless you have adequate knowledge on electrical matters or are an electrical engineer.
Buried down a winding track through wild woodland, in an office full of books and papers and contraptions involving dials and wires, the 88-year-old presents his thoughts with a quiet, unshakable conviction that can be unnerving.
With his father, Norman Kaufman, he has invested at least $1 million over the last decade in batting cages, two go-kart tracks and, this year, a new contraption that involves small boats, mounted guns and foamy balls.
The first efforts involved homemade contraptions resembling fire extinguishers that produced a peppery fog.
A similar method for determining oven-readiness — "the arm test" — involved reaching into the lighted contraption.
Avatar takes two (at least) kinds of technology -- motion capture and classic visual f/x, along with 3D projection (which involved his inventing a camera contraption he wore on his head) -- and weaves a gripping, epic tale.
"Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting," he says.
Part of Performance Space 122's current season — renovations at its East Village home mean that audiences will be transplanted to a variety of spaces around the city for the next two years — "Transferência" involved a body and a steampunk contraption of candles, belts and tubing.
