Hop onto the ride, put in a quarter and the machine lurches into life accompanied by rhythmical frog noises.
The machine lurched forward with its 4-cylinder Volkswagen engine growling like a pack of sled dogs.
The hot-tub time machine lurched forward to a recent Saturday morning: Mr. Graham was standing in his own garden in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, beneath a Bearss lime tree.
So it wasn't entirely surprising that, as the fashion time machine lurched through the decades of the late 20th century, it made stops at 1960's helmet hair, 70's glam rock, the 80's power suit and the kitsch-pop 90's effusions of Hello Kitty.
The fantasy of a personal flying machine is lurching toward reality, as companies ready vertical-takeoff aircraft for market, and information technology endows planes with the ability to fly themselves.
I gripped the throttle and thrust the machine forward, my head lurching back.
The answer will reveal itself in the years ahead as Netflix will surely unveil more transactions in the magnitude of War Machine and the landscape will lurch into its next iteration.
This was fascinating but somewhat static, nowhere near as gripping as "Machine Days," an intense and lurching contraption that sparked especially powerful work from Mr. Iyer and Mr. Gilmore alike.
Every now and then history seems to slip a gear and lurch forward in time-machine fashion.
Along the way, too, there are perverse innovations in executions: attempts to hang multiple murderers simultaneously, scaffolds designed with trap doors, for easy execution, and hanging machines patented for their ability to lurch upward instead of dropping downward.
Finally, a voice on the radio said, "Ready to start!" "We have liftoff!" "Let's start shredding!" The machine began to rumble, and the maroon Impala lurched halfway into the shredder box.
