She was contractually bound to be admirable, not desirable: a well-maintained, globally available wave machine, summoned to voice platitudes from Sydney to Scunthorpe.
She was contractually bound to be admirable, not desirable: a well-maintained, globally available wave machine, summoned to voice platitudes from Sydney to Scunthorpe..
There is something mesmerizing about these trains and the men who run them, something nostalgic too, because they seem like history machines, summoning up a past lived and also imagined, as in, for starters, "The Great Train Robbery" (1903), "North by Northwest" (1959) and "Speed" (1994).
Cafe Pushkin "is a time machine summoning 19th-century Moscow and its food," said Leslie Siben, the real estate broker who placed the multilevel, 150-seat restaurant across the street from Nobu 57.
Another is that when he and the Soft Machine were summoned to America to tour with Jimi Hendrix they landed in Manhattan by helicopter on the top of the Pan Am building, "like a dragonfly on a tomb", as one of Mitchell's lyrics characterised it.
A baseball is a "white orb," the game is played "in a Rhode Island place called Pawtucket," balky stadium lights "refused to share their blessings of illumination," the popcorn machine is "summoning memories of happy childhoods that never were".
At P.S. 127 in Elmhurst, Queens, teachers are making copies of the few workbooks they have with such fury that the copy machine repairman is being summoned weekly.
According to state records, Ms. Knickerbocker told investigators that after suspecting the machine was malfunctioning, she summoned help but none came.
American officials expressed surprise that the gunmen did not retreat immediately after G.I.'s responded with a barrage of machine-gun fire and summoned an Apache attack helicopter to the scene.
For how could anyone without a fully equipped time machine hope to summon exactly the experience of Burton on the stage of the Lunt-Fontanne Theater in the spring of 1964, including what audiences brought to the production?
And if there is a discrepancy between man and machine, a second human is summoned.
