Sentences with phrase «of typewriters»

The newsroom set is alive, bustling with energy and accented with the musical sound of typewriter keys eternally tapping away.

About Blog In writelephant blog Steve K shares information on various types of types of typewriters like Silver Seiko, Facit, Canon and much more.

Instead of typewriters do wide grip pull ups for example, minimum of 5 reps in the given amount of cycles.

The stodgy business plan — that multipage printed document that entrepreneurs used to hand out at meetings with venture capitalists — has gone the way of the typewriter and Rolodex.

I picked up a few Hardy Boys, a few more National Geographics for kid collage work, and well... on my way to the checkout, I found myself standing squarely in front of this typewriter again.

In 1980, the second momentous event happens when the frustrated man pulls a blank sheet of paper out of his typewriter and confesses to writer's block.

Back in New York in 1953, Sari Dienes takes direct ink traces from a Soho sidewalk, while Robert Rauschenberg has John Cage drive a Model A Ford over twenty sheets of typewriter paper to leave its tread.

Like Spotlight, the Oscar - winning picture from 2015 about the The Boston Globe's exposé of a Catholic Church sex - abuse scandal, The Post captures not only the excitement of a paper on the trail of a big story — «My God, the fun,» Bradlee enthuses — but also evokes a bygone era of typewriters, hot metal and those strange vacuum tubes that used to whizz our carefully sub-edited copy down to the composing room.

The opening quickly prepares the audience for the political unrest about to be exposed: An extended silence is disrupted by the explosive gunshot - like sounds of a typewriter slamming the date on the screen, a heightened sound effect suggestive of the many political careers that would be killed in the wake of the Washington Post's reporting.

The clack of typewriter strokes becomes the driving beat of both the story (for reasons that come clear in the final act) and distinctive score that earned the film's sole Oscar (of seven nominations).

She is also known for her ongoing series of typewriter drawings.

The increasing need for clerical workers and the invention of the typewriter also afforded better jobs for women.

Long gone are the days of typewriters, pencil sharpeners and blotting papers.

Kim Kardashian has a successful mobile gaming app, while Tom Hanks found some traction with an app that mimics the experience of a typewriter keyboard on tablets and smartphones.

Imagine that the next Steve Jobs being held back by rules from the age of the typewriter.

What kind of typewriter do you have and why do you still use one?

He shares the history of the typewriters listings of each machine categorized loosely by its manufacturer, including rebranded typewriters and much more.

His time in post during World War II and experience as an administrative clerk may point to a possible origin of his interest in the subversive use of the typewriter.

He has recently collaborated with the writers Jonathan Safran Foer and Paul Auster on The Story of My Typewriter, and with Denis Johnson on Cloud of Chalk.

Just like the pen or pencil did not disappear with the coming of the typewriter (whether mechanical or electronic) nor with the advent of the personal computer, paper books will still exist years into the future and coexist with their digital equivalent.

I don't know what became of that typewriter.

One thinks, in particular, of the extended scene of the typewriter at the end.

The process for writing a book is almost the same as it was 50 years ago, except you type on a computer instead of a typewriter now.

I have, therefore, girded up the loins of my typewriter and decided to breeze ahead — without having a first chapter on the ministry in the Bible, a second on the ministry in the early church, a third on ministry in the Middle Ages — and so on until finally we might get to the present.

Even the carpentry of the typewriter table upon which these words are being written (the top was made from an old and discarded wooden organ pipe from Miller Chapel of Princeton Seminary) was something I got into in terms of principles only after I had begun some «functions.»

Before the mass production of paper, parchment was the major medium for legal documents and until the widespread adoption of typewriters, they were a clerk's preferred medium for many formal legal documents and records.

It was boring to type the letters in the upper row of my typewriter keyboard 20 times, then go on to the next row.

We know that QWERTY is the dominant survivor of dozens of keyboard designs that competed during the early years of the typewriter.

Some of my earliest memories consisted of a typewriter.

I think I may have featured this bench this first time Kim shared it but I love it even more with a makeover of Typewriter MMS Milk Paint.

Spectators cheer enthusiastically for their country's athletes, and there is one memorable shot of the press room, with hundreds of typewriters clattering away.

Even the sound design — a symphony of typewriter clicking and ringing phones singing out through the Post offices — is engaging.

The DTS - HD 2.0 Master Audio surround sound is notable for stabilizing the chaotic newsroom noises so dialogue (and the tommy - gun rapport of the typewriters) is clear and up front.

He even confides in his brother Harry, proving his creation by demonstrating how he can control her with the strike of a typewriter key, though, since she's perfect, he doesn't really need to write anymore.

This mise - en - scene is pure wunderkammer — so fixated on cramming every inch of the frame with knickknacks, piles of papers, obsolete technologies (production designer Maria Djurkovic must've been given one hell of a typewriter budget), and accumulated dust that the characters themselves begin to resemble rare, preserved specimens.

Gary Oldman, a bunch of bald guys, and a whole lot of typewriters star in this curio cabinet John le Carré adaptation.

The film, which first began as a brief look at a struggling Berkeley repair and sales shop called California Typewriter, was expanded to explore the heart and soul of the device as well as to profile a cross-section of typewriter aficionados.

Before long we are introduced to some fasinating characters that share a love of the typewriter but for varying reasons and rationales.

This changed when he read a fascinating article about the search for a particular model of typewriter.

act, only to find he had created her in real life out of his novel, and has retained some sense of control via the power of his typewriter rewriting scenes from his life.

His war is played out through the percussive mashing of typewriters and the pensive, nervous puffing of cigars.

He always provided examples of sentences to improve my work, often punching the keys of his typewriter so I could take the examples with me and use them.

At first, we performed rote drills to help our fingers memorize the location of the typewriter keys.

He was a writer of non-fiction, and I remember the tap - tap - tap of the typewriter keys as he worked late into the night.