I feel very lucky, very genetically privileged, that I have pretty solid control over my use of things.
Jesús Rafael Soto achieved a similar fusion of Op Art and assemblage, making brilliant use of things like driftwood and tangles of old wire in two works here.
Mr. Erickson argues that Drupal has better tools for making quick changes to Web sites and making use of things like podcasts, Twitter feeds and blogs.
However, by way of compensation, he has other resources not available to the novelist or the dramatist, in particular the use of things.
"Altering and deforming the original use of things is important to me," said the man who entombed a rotary telephone in a lacquered cloth bundle.
By trying to concentrate directly on the use of things instead of their prices, the Soviet system lost hold of the one guarantee that anyone needed what was being manufactured.
(Since then, he published a series of books about the raw-food lifestyle, describing dishes that may not require a stove but instead the use of things like dehydrator Teflex sheets and Anti-Griddles).
My habits as a music lover — and a purchaser of music — have been dramatically shaped by these devices; my habits of labor have been even more fully formed by my use of things Apple has made or enabled.
To make ends meet, principals have trimmed after-school programs, shrunk their support staffs and tightened their schools' use of things like printing paper, markers and Post-it notes.
Unveiling this falsehood leads to "wisdom," which is "nothing but the science of making such use of things as their nature dictates" (Element CXIV, §326, p.94).
