Poor loves - all summer they're refolding cardigans and heaving around long contraptions made of leather in order to groom and shape our next season's desires.
"Last year," she says, "we had an exhibit that was a gigantic, 40-foot-long contraption that simulated the human digestive system.
Instead, it produces eight-inch-long contraptions of plastic bars and ball joints.
Merle put on another tape, a rambunctious medley of "Workin' Man Blues" and "Always Late with Your Kisses," and before long his great contraption of a band — guitars, piano, drums, horns — was wailing at top volume.
The imaginative highlight of the exhibition is a 20-foot-long, wall-sized "contraption" designed by the Brooklyn firm Moey, a display that chronicles the ways the temperance movements of the 19th century used the political process.
He attached a flashing red police light to a long pipe, put the contraption on a stockroom cart, and set it next to the wrapping-paper section.
There was an elaborate machine that made mint juice, long syringes, odd Styrofoam contraptions, deep pots belching white smoke (this was the liquid nitrogen).
An INVOcell is a cylindrical contraption about 4cm long and 3cm in diameter, made of gas-permeable polystyrene.
But you can't play it on The 64, another contraption in a long line of reimagined machines stirring your rose-tinted synapses like so much gloopy brain soup.
One of his contraptions is a long red tube that drops a ball from 100 inches and measures its vertical rebound.
GARDEN CITY Long Island Children's Museum "Contraptions A to Z," an exhibition that allows visitors to experiment with playful mechanisms while exploring everything from art to literature and much more.
