At intervals, all the sewers contained wheel-shaped metal barriers, whose spokes generally extended around the entire circumference of the channel and blocked passage through it.
As he put it, "Everything was problematical": the locomotive that had to be transported to the Montana location from a Denver museum; a horse-drawn buggy whose spokes and upholstery had to be made in different states.
On the screen behind her was a rainbow-colored cheese-tasting wheel, whose spokes represented the eight major aroma families of cheese: lactic, vegetable, floral, fruity, toasted, animal, spice, and "others".
As I strolled casually around the city with my wife, Betsey, Montesquieu and his age seemed a living presence, especially in the Place des Grands Hommes, a hub whose spokes are named for the immortals of the time -- Voltaire and Buffon, Rousseau and Montesquieu himself.
The Fairfield's thinking "is very skewed, like, 'Nothing existed until we showed up, and now we're going to make this barren land safe for international tourists because we don't want them to get a bad impression," said Elise Long, a co-owner of the building whose dance company, Spoke the Hub, is one of the arts center's original tenants.
Here you face a heavy screen made of radiating steel spokes whose sharpened ends frame a central, circular opening.
Back then, Stern labeled Falk and his brethren as parasites — those whose meddling would bend the spokes on his continuous wheel.
I am told of someone living on Sahaba Street, on one of the spokes of roads whose centre is occupied by the spreading foliage and the concrete box-like marker of the grave.
Last year, however, Ojeda whose father's family hails from Mexico's Pacific coast spoke glowingly of some of Donald Trump's hardline immigration positions.
The principle is illustrated by a bicycle wheel whose rim and hub are held in place by the tensile spokes.
4.31pm BST Texas Senator Ted Cruz, whose quixotic campaign to "defund" Obamacare was the stick in the spokes that got us here, could – could – cause a default all by himself, Joshua Green reports in Bloomberg Business Week How could this happen?
