He did not favor someone pulling levers and twisting dials like the man behind the curtain in "The Wizard of Oz".
A network buys 100 scripts for new shows each year, makes 20 pilots and then sends them for testing before sample audiences who sit in rooms twisting dials to register enjoyment or boredom.
Twisting dials behind a mixing board, the sound guy suggested a song from TV on the Radio's new album, "Seeds," due Nov. 18 from Harvest..
Cloud Nothings bravely played on, twisting dials and blasting scratchy reverb and feedback into the blinding fields, until the soundboard succumbed to the elements and finally gave out.
Mr. Breuker compared the desired effect to spinning two records at once, or twisting the dial on a radio.
The knobs or "pots" (short for "potentiometers") control the left-to-right balance, but twisting a dial with a mouse makes little sense.
Jack and Ennis passed a joint back and forth, the fire burning late, Jack restless and bitching about the cold, poking the flames with a stick, twisting the dial of the transistor radio until the batteries died.
Rare among jazz musicians — though increasingly less rare, it seems — Mr. Taborn hails from the school of thought that places real aesthetic value on the act of turning a knob or twisting a dial.
Fearing retribution, very few people talk openly about it (twisting the dials is so easy, you know…), but they all complain about inaccurate, unreliable data.
There is a grim contradiction at work here, with the Obama administration simultaneously, and self-destructively, twisting the dials of hope and fear.
As temperatures rise, residents respond by simply twisting the dials on now universal air conditioners, expelling even more hot air into the atmosphere.
