Much of his work has been focused on tweaking art's controlling mechanics by pushing them to absurd extremes.
A group of Puerto Rican men, one of whom later became our mechanic, helped push the bus through the streets of New Haven to one of their houses.
But something similar is going on in every story, as time's mechanics push and pull plots, and the winged chariot takes its toll on the characters depicted.
Caught up in conflicts with the unionized mechanics and pushed into bankruptcy by the abrupt cutback in airline travel after Sept. 11, United turned to cost cutting to survive.
Our understanding of mechanics is pushed to its limit when the functionality of devices is controlled at the nanometer scale.
Anatomically, she relied on the mechanics of opposition: pushing and pulling.
She has a flair for the mechanics of movement, pushing her dancers to the edge and then pitching them off it.
This includes postural instructions and practical demonstrations of proper body mechanics for lifting, pushing, pulling, and rising from a lying position, all performed with patient participation.
However, this caused extreme controversy between us regarding the kind of ball to be used, not to mention the mechanics of binding and pushing.
Sellers, in his memoirs, described Eckfeldt as "a man of staunch integrity, a cautious, careful, orderly and painstaking man; he was not one of the dashing, pushing, inventive mechanics, though under his care many apparently slight improvements were gradually adopted that in the aggregate amounted to a great deal in the economy of working.
