What was the contraption bulging out of his backpack?
Besides Kreutzer, there is the courtside contraption, cleverly called Noah after the biblical character who built the perfect ark and not Joakim Noah, whose awkward shot could use it.
Hadn't researched it too good, mind, since heaven be praised the contraption was duff.
The name of the contraption is the Old Swimmin' Hole.
Although only a two-seater, the contraption is the size of a limousine, using fold-down wings and a secondary conventional plane steering system to take off on patches of road or grass.
(The shield is the plastic part of the contraption that fits over the breast; it looks like a horn of plenty).
They paid a Chinese engineer and a translator to spend three months teaching them how to use the contraption, which is the size of a sport utility vehicle.
Sealed off by an oddly festive candy-striped hoarding, this sinister contraption is the remains of the New York State Pavilion, constructed for the 1964 World's Fair.
Safety is the purpose of this contraption.
This contraption is the fulcrum of Rockefeller's globe-trotting life.
