Sentences with phrase «typewriter out»

1 Inspired by Ed Ruscha's photobook Royal Road Test, in which the artist documented the act of throwing a typewriter out of a car, Rugoff traces an alternative idea of looking via the frozen, latent violence in the artworks of Vija Celmins and Robert Rauschenberg, and through the actions of Le Va (throwing pieces of felt and ball bearings), Burden (shooting), and even Yves Klein (evidence of performances as recorded in painting).

It almost pushes such historical details as curvaceous architecture by Eero Saarinen or an Olivetti typewriter out of mind.

Taking its name from an Oakland repair shop, «California Typewriter» opens with the reminiscence of musician Mason Williams, who, with his friend, painter Ed Ruscha, once threw a Royal typewriter out the window of a moving car, documenting the predictable results, with photographer Robert Blackwell, in the 1967 art book «Royal Road Test.»

I was recently thinking how I need to take my vintage typewriter out of the closet.

Not exact matches

The user can type out the text, and then tap the button at the top to change the font to styles including Modern, Neon, Typewriter, and Strong.

As Steve Jobs likes to point out, «In the past 15 years, there have been only a few tools that have actually increased the efficiency of the office worker — the IBM Selectric typewriters, the calculator, the Xerox copier, and the newer, advanced phone systems.

A million monkeys typing on a million typewriters would eventually hammer out the works of Shakespeare, the theory goes.

My wife, who is always helpful about such things, listened to each chapter as it came out of the typewriter.

I'd like to think that I would have been one of the enlightened champions of Robinson's rightful place in Major League Baseball, that if I were a writer back then, my typewriter would have spit out all sorts of fiery missives in support of him.

About five years ago the San Diego Chargers» Ron Mix tackled a typewriter for the first time for this magazine and turned out a delightful piece he called I Swore I Would Quit Football (SI, Sept. 16, 1963).

«John obviously got on the late - night typewriter, as it used to be, and out of frustration penned this»

NYC Councilman Daniel Dromm plans to introduce a bill today that would phase out police typewriters by 2016.

With this strength in mind, he sat down at his typewriter and began tapping out an argument for full - fledged animal studies to examine phytic acid's potential for protecting against heart disease and cancer.

These new forms are much more convenient than the old ones, because you can fill them out before you print them — no typewriter needed.

Operators fed data into Mark I using strips of punch - card paper; results were spat out by two electric typewriters connected to the machine.

If Spitzer agreed with those proposing a new diagnosis, which he almost always did, he'd hammer it out instantly on an old typewriter.

Alas, with Sholes's machine and most other typewriters until the early part of the century, the type bars struck the invisible rear side of the paper, and you didn't know the bars had jammed until you pulled out the page and saw that you had typed 26 lines of uninterrupted E's instead of the Gettysburg Address.

I really love how the typewriter open shelving piece came out and then with your styling....

When Harold and Kay come face to face, we learn that there's even more to their relationship than expected: Kay isn't just narrating Harold's life, her latest book is his life, and everything she writes about him comes true (the rules seem to dictate that she has to actually bang it out on her typewriter in order to make it happen).

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

The story opens in 1966 with Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys), a government analyst on a data - mining mission in Vietnam, pecking out reports on his portable typewriter amid exploding bombs and flowing blood.

Multiple genre cliches are affectionately trotted out — the trenchcoats, the cigarettes, the Venetian blinds, the clattering typewriters, the alleys, the pool halls, the gambling parlor, the clattering typewriters, the shadowy stalkers, the apartment trashed in a futile search, the gun pointed through a pocket — as Hammett pursues both the lost girl and an overdue manuscript which he has foolishly dropped.

This is a cosy world turned upside down, in which malcontent fortysomethings find themselves unsatisfyingly addicted to Google, Twitter and Netflix while retro - hip twentysomethings read books, listen to vinyl, bang away at typewriters and binge on 80s VHS tapes («It's like everything we threw out — except it looks good...»)

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.

Head to Arlington and check out Cambridge Typewriter.

The effects technology may be cutting edge, but the screenwriting is crying out for a new typewriter ribbon.

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.

He also brought his work along with him, in the form of a stack of paper and a tall, klunky manual typewriter that looked as if it might have come out of one of the newsrooms where he had pounded out stories nearly half a century earlier as a tabloid reporter in New York.

Franco's Tommy Wiseau is an oblivious creature who bangs out the script to his mystifying tour de force in a furiously hokey typewriter montage; without any internal conflicts, motivations, or backstory to speak of, his ambitions are simplified into his relationship with Sestero, a character whose two modes are «wide - eyed» and «peeved.»

Oakland artist Jeremy Mayer, who makes found - object sculptures out of discarded typewriter parts, is one of the shop's regular customers, but his presence in the film has less to do with typewriters than with the artist's financial struggles.

«I'm not locked in a room going through 40 cigarettes and banging stuff out on the typewriter, John Fante - esquely,» he says, dropping the name of the revered Ask the Dust novelist.

It's a fascinating story, well - told by Nichol, and I think California Typewriter is enjoyable and worthwhile viewing for most anyone, even those who have never sampled the tactile pleasures of banging out an article, story, poem, or note on a trusty tTypewriter is enjoyable and worthwhile viewing for most anyone, even those who have never sampled the tactile pleasures of banging out an article, story, poem, or note on a trusty typewritertypewriter.

Despite this, his caring nephew Henry (Kenan Thompson) makes sure he packs along his trusty typewriter, hoping perhaps the idyllic setting will inspire the old cuss to plunk out a few new prose.

«He wrote his books out all long hand and I would type them in at first on the IBM Selectric typewriter and as we progressed we moved forward to the computer,» she said.

I plowed through the entire Encyclopedia Brown series and used to steal time with my dad's manual Royal typewriter to hammer out page turners like «Murder at the Roller Disco.»

The poet, for much of the 20th century, would have written the poem out by hand, then typed it up on a typewriter, which would be submitted to the publisher, who typesets it; which exact spacing, say, of an indent, reflects the real authorial intent — the first draft, the copy, or the finished book?

Work that was done on a manual typewriter:) If I squint hard enough I can still make out the words.

Library cards were filled out with typewriter and fountain pen.

And, of course, the pulp writers, pounding out thousands of words a day, actually were working hard on those manual typewriters.

I'm all about the instant gratification; I started out as a writer using golfball typewriters, and communicated with my publishers and literary agent via airmail letters, and telegrams.

Brent: I'm a writer and I have been ever since I was six, clanking out stories on an old Remington typewriter speckled in White - Oout stories on an old Remington typewriter speckled in White - OutOut.

The typewriter resembles a folding keyboard, but with a twist: a 6 - inch e-ink display appears alongside the keyboard, enabling users to type out a document without carrying around a full - size laptop or a large battery.

The men and women who wrote for the pulps and slicks from before 1900 up until 1958 were hard - working writers who would spend long hours pounding out stories on manual typewriters and getting paid a penny a word.

Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.

The point is that, authors — at the earliest opportunity — you must must take your works out of your word processors, off your legal pads and out of your typewriters and let them sprout and grow and mature and live online, not off.

They no longer have to employ someone to decipher their manuscripts and type them out on typewriters.

Although my eyes became red and strained after about three hours darting from her typed page to the computer screen and back, I reminded myself of Margaret at her typewriter for years, pouring out her heart and soul, trying to make sense of what was happening to her.

Later, I typed stories on a manual typewriter, keeping copious amounts of Wite - Out on hand.

He turned out 1,680,000 words his peak year, and supposedly had typewriters set up in every room of his house, with a WIP going on every one of them.

Go ahead, don't believe me, try pounding out a single page on a manual typewriter as fast as you can.