Friends, too, were tapped to pose in things like gas masks and prairie dresses and sometimes elaborate, contraption-like clothing Hembrey built but refused to explain.
Though this show unfortunately has none of Mr. Lee's acclaimed found-object contraptions, like the unforgettable dragon made from trash that he set loose in this garden in 2004, it affords many moments of paradoxical pleasure, revealing the garage-sale stuff of which compelling illusions can be made.
It was while desperately grappling some infernal contraption like I'd just fallen into the workings of Big Ben that I contemplated abandoning this whole "exercise" charade.
His solution is to use a contraption like a coffee percolator that separates the juice from the hips.
She made foul-smelling yogurt — on Gaga's stove, in a contraption like a double boiler — and chewed with her mouth completely open.
"I thought he was crazy," Paul said, adding that he saw Butler at practice with "his hand wrapped up in a little contraption, like he was going to try to play.
Then a sheet of paper about 4 feet by 3 feet (all right, call it 1.2 metres by 0.9, if you must) was imposed on the inked type by a contraption like a pneumatic octopus; a roller transferred ink to paper and the octopus picked up the printed sheet.
He devised contraptions, like the Munsell Color Sphere, to choose appealing combinations of colors for manufacturers to adopt, generally in the unobtrusive tones that he liked best.
They build lumbering contraptions like the steampunk treehouse, a rusted-out 40-foot sculpture assembled last year at the Burning Man festival in Nevada and unveiled last month at the Coachella music festival in Southern California.
The "Overland Stage" being raided in the Brooks film is not one of those old wooden, horse-drawn contraptions (like the one that would carry Wayne to long-delayed A-movie stardom in John Ford's 1939 "Stagecoach"), but an up-to-the-minute, fossil-fueled, streamlined bus.
