It's where Svein Breast-Rope reeled out of Mass, accused Svein Asleifarson of cheating in the drinking contest that had preceded it, got a retaliatory blow with an axe and, as he died, hacked open the head of a bystander.
Mr. Goodwyn reeled rope through a belay device, pulling up the slack before his climbing partner left the ground.
You'd either swim, or else it was this," she said, reeling imaginary rope with her hands.
Ms. Brock led every section, placing cam anchors, clipping the occasional in-situ bolt and jamming metal chocks into cracks for protection in case of a fall; Ms. Wicks climbed second, removing the anchors as her guide reeled in rope from a ledge above.
This machine requires no receiving bobbin in its flyer; the rope is coiled directly into a reel form.
She mimes reeling in a rope.
My feet pressured small creases on the face, and the rope straightened as Ms. Martins belayed, reeling line to keep me tight.
Back then, with the need to shoot on a soundstage and change film magazines, Rope is a complex dance of hidden reel changes and transitions.
On the first floor of Laurent Tourondel's latest venture, the white wainscoted walls are strung with thick rope and larded with antique rods and reels, stuffed marlin, and oars, giving it the feel of a Nantucket clam shack in August.
"Then somebody needs to explain to me how something viewed as central to building peace is left on the ropes for three years, reeling under bankruptcy, and every action is taken to erode its political viability.
