Strap a guitar around her and Carrie struts around the stage with a Mick Jagger hip swagger, shredding riffs with Pete Townshend arm windmills.
It includes a garden roller "propelled over fence struts 30 inches apart", an 18-gallon galvanised tank, an E-flat bell, an auctioneer's hammer and, most importantly for that blood-curdling wail, "three air cylinders, available from British Oxygen Co, Wembley, or local agent".
It is, first of all, magnificent, a steel hypostyle in which the weight of the tower above your head comes to earth through a grove of graceful struts.
She struts convincingly around the opening bars and then disaster: as her cape is yanked off she's pulled off her podium and clatters to the floor!
Her characters were wooden, her plots slapdash and her settings – generic ruined castles and spooky old houses – were like a Hollywood set; look round the back and you could see the struts holding up the painted hardboard.
So another team of researchers, led by Kenichi Soga at the University of Cambridge, followed up on Dr Kim's work by testing wireless sensors for nearly three years at three locations in Britain.In East Yorkshire the team installed sensors to monitor humidity in the anchorage chambers of the Humber Bridge, where steel struts must be kept dry.
It has already been experimenting with a rocket called Grasshopper, which sports odd-looking metal struts designed to allow it to land back on its launchpad after take-off, much as a child's cartoon rocket might.For the debut mission of the Falcon 9 v1.1, the firm decided to explore the idea in a full-on flight test.
From a political perspective, that was just in time: Britain's big four banks will soon report full year pre-tax profits of some £20 billion ($32 billion), while the City will pay out a disgustingly healthy round of bonuses.The agreement has several struts.
ATTRACTIVE though they are, the glass walls, steel struts and curved wood ceilings of Wales's National Assembly are unlikely ever to feature on the opening credits of a televised political drama.
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Maintaining those struts has been, for all Mr Cameron's recent predecessors, an objective in itself; both are decayed.
