It has become a gawp factory, a perpetual motion machine in which tourist income feeds construction which feeds more tourism.
Devlin's glass house had developed as a machine in which to tell lies and to discover them.
It is the product, he said, of an information machine in which the most heavily advertised ideas triumph.
Tyra Juliette, 22, one of the Miller representatives at Ship of Fools, carried a tablet-sized machine in which she entered participants' names, ZIP codes, birthdays and genders.
"In the tradition of the Humboldt brothers, it will be an enlightenment machine in which the cultures of the world can meet".
He invented a "catastrophe machine", in which a circular disc on a pivot was attached to two elastic bands, one with a free end.
A decade later, Doughty took considerable satisfaction from the fact that she was operating the same machine in which Mitford had been reduced to ash.
There was also an unhealthy tribalism and a Tammany Hall political machine in which union bosses had excessive influence in picking candidates and deciding policy.
Tersus, with funding from Patagonia, has developed a completely waterless washing machine in which textiles are washed in pressurized carbon dioxide.
Two machines are running to replace him -- the Gore machine, in which everything is calculated and calibrated, and the Bush machine, which is even more so.
Luckily, his scientist uncle has invented a time machine in which they can to travel to the future to find Sana's reincarnation.
