A shower ring, like a tawdry halo, had been rigged around it, ruining the kitchen's classic vintage lines.
One oft-repeated story is of a visit to a South Carolina resort, where he spent thousands of dollars to have lights rigged around the hotel pool and volleyball courts so his 20-member party could frolic on Riyadh time.
Then there's a more anthropological storyline, having to do with art, sex and status, and rigged around the question of whether some abstract paintings endowed by a certain Sergei Korolyov to the city's new art museum, and allegedly worth $70m, are in fact fakes.
An HR executive, now retired who worked in several Fortune 500, explained to me that the entire US corporate economy is rigged around executive packages: entry and exit bonuses, high wages, parachute stock options, reimbursements, and so on.
Vuignier then swings the rig around on a string, using centripetal force to create a nice, balanced 360° video.
EnCana's drilling contractor trained the tribe's young men in its operation and guarantees this rig around-the-clock work.
Radice stood on the threshold, in a welcoming gesture to no one in particular, as a construction gang scrambled around, rigging a curtain over the facade for a dramatic unveiling after the cannon salute.
A group calling itself Elite NWO Agenda put the video online which, it claims, shows vote rigging at various counts around Scotland.
"Just as we're now causing the vast majority of extinctions," Mooallem writes, "the vast majority of endangered species will survive only if we keep actively rigging the world around them in their favor".
The latest guilty pleas and fines revolve around rigging foreign currency exchange that prosecutors said lasted from December 2007 to January 2013.
Most of the paratroopers landed successfully, but one man was killed when his rigging line twisted around his neck mid drop, throttling him; one officer broke his leg on landing, and four men were wounded when a Sten gun was accidentally fired.
