Sentences with phrase «rigged contraptions»

The other major sculpture is one of Hansen's so - called «fountains» — elaborately jerry - rigged contraptions featuring buckets, hoses and light fixtures, which pour and recycle supplies of water.

The new perspective was to consolidate the party as a dictatorial apparatus, made effective as a vote - rigging contraption, after a selection process that was tightly controlled and residing inside Aso Villa at the national level and the government houses in the states.

The ruthless vote - rigging contraption that used to arrogantly describe itself as Africa's largest political party, has dissembled so rapidly, soon after it was thrown out of power last year.

And so defines the goofy humour of the piece, the kind that finds Ash breaking dishes over his own head before strapping a chainsaw to his freshly amputated stump and rigging a contraption that stands as the most twisted homage to Taxi Driver in history.

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It is dominated by the far - seeing genius of Josh Boger, who at age 7 does experiments in a lab above his parents» garage (including sending a hapless mouse soaring aloft on a Hindenberg - type contraption he rigs up).

As a child, Jeff Bezos showed an early interest in how things work, turning his parents» garage into a laboratory and rigging electrical contraptions around his house.

After they rigged it up to a toylike car that weighs as little as a small apple, their contraption, reported in Nature Communications, actually propelled the car — albeit at less than 4 inches per minute.

She used a mirror contraption rigged up for her by Reginald the footman, the better to keep an eye on comings and goings on the steps below.

Above her, leaning precariously, a contraption had been rigged; a tilting hat - stand held in place by a pulley roped to the legs of the enormous bedframe.

A metal pulpit and something like a vast standard lamp dangling with quasi-Oriental talismans are rigged up to some phoney machines, all knobs and dials and mysterious phials, that resemble those contraptions Scientologists use to «record» engrams.

Now, humans having finally realized that there are unintended consequences to fossil fuel burning, are discussing how to continue using such Neanderthal energy technologies, while throwing up more pollutants or rigging up space - based Rube Goldberg contraptions to counteract their ill effects.