We spread out the wings, inserted riblike poles, straightened the king post and tightened dangling cables.
The eight-story building, the Parker Center, which opened in 1955, was seriously damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake and has sagging floors, leaking pipes and dangling cables.
Warren's slapped-together, wall-mounted boxes are more artful than they appear, with their grubby MDF frames, protruding nails, polystyrene oranges and moons, snaggly bits of sellotape, coloured curls of neon and dangling cables.
And yes, there are some who will use their smartphones instead, but there are others who will still want to buy a high-end device from specialists like TomTom or do away with dangling cables and go for a reasonably priced in-dash solution".
Two engineers lower a backpack adorned with boxes and dangling cables onto my shoulders.
This makes it a little more unwieldy for using when walking, but it's small enough to just stick in a pocket, so it's not an issue unless you don't care for dangling cables.
Recently, a helicopter buzzed overhead while dangling heavy cables used for seismic tests.
This is undiluted Latin America, with uneven pavements, dangling electrical cables, and shops where you can buy just about anything.
So when the Black Eyed Peas — the rapper and producer will.i.am, the singer Fergie, the extras apl.de.ap and Taboo — descended to the stage on platforms dangling from cables, dressed like a friendly alien delegation from "Star Trek: The Next Generation," it constituted a victory of a sort, even if it was a short-lived one.
These might be called, for the purposes of a perverse disaster tourism, the doll houses — places where the facades were ripped off to reveal rooms with collapsed flooring from which still-made beds dangled and cable boxes hung in the air from their cords; a tableau of total obliteration save for a preserved Oriental vase or an intact fireplace mantel.
