Chair
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Fathers were in a space where they were able to make their daughter's plate, and pull out her
chair
and extend his hand for a dance.
So on the morning I visited, Eleanor came downstairs, poured herself a cup of coffee, sat in a reclining chair, and she sat there, kind of amiably talking to each of her children as one after the other they came downstairs, checked the list, made themselves breakfast, checked the list again, put the dishes in the dishwasher, rechecked the list, fed the pets or whatever chores they had, checked the list once more, gathered their belongings, and made their way to the bus.
An environmental psychologist told me, "If you're sitting in a hard
chair
on a rigid surface, you'll be more rigid.
If you're sitting on a cushioned chair, you'll be more open."
She told me, "When you're discipling your children, sit in an upright
chair
with a cushioned surface.
There I rose from my
chair
for good, I leaned on my cane, and I looked back, finding all from my fellow passengers in the bus to photographs of the crash, and when I saw this photograph, I didn't see a bloody and unmoving body.
I didn't want to be the only one left standing up, so sometimes I think I married my husband because he was the closest
chair
to me at 30."
But in truth, what I really would like to explain to the public and to the audiences of MoMA is that the most interesting chairs are the ones that are actually made by a robot, like this beautiful
chair
by Dirk Vander Kooij, where a robot deposits a toothpaste-like slur of recycled refrigerator parts, as if he were a big candy, and makes a
chair
out of it.
Small but eminently comfortable, it had a bed and a rocking
chair
and a long desk and even longer picture windows looking out on a small, private, walled garden, and then 1,200 feet of golden pampas grass running down to the sea.
And the Bertoia
chair
in the background is my favorite
chair.
How could the young Nabokov, sitting innocently and elegantly in a red chair, leafing through a book and butterflies, imagine such displacement, such loss?"
Stepping onto the sidewalk, I then heard the sound of a steel
chair
slide across the concrete sidewalk in front of me.
As I did, so slid the
chair.
I just figured I'd made a mistake, and went back to the right, and so slid the
chair
in perfect synchronicity.
I went back to the left, and so slid the chair, blocking my path of travel.
Its leash had been tied to the
chair
as her master went in for coffee, and she was just persistent in her efforts to greet me, perhaps get a scratch behind the ear.
You go ahead and sit back in your comfortable
chair
and you be the critic, you be the observer, while the brave one gets in the ring and engages and gets bloody and gets dirty and fails over and over and over again, but yet isn't afraid and isn't timid and lives life in a bold way."
I walked in looking like I was going to the prom, and they shuffle me into a studio and seat me on a spinning, rolling
chair.
So I looked at the stage manager and I'm like, "Excuse me, can I have another chair?"
But not only did Mr. Olbermann invite me back, he made me a full-time contributor, and he taped down my
chair.
If you sit a guy on a
chair
with all this apparatus measuring your physiology, and there's kind of a bomb that goes off, it's such an instinctive response that, in 20 years, they never saw anyone who would not jump.
I call this simplifying complexity, and it's what we do at the
chair
of systems design at ETH Zurich.
We ride the elevator up and we crawl in, on your hands and knees into the spaceship, one at a time, and you worm your way up into your
chair
and plunk yourself down on your back.
If a brown recluse bites you, you end with one of these horrible, big necrotic things on your leg and there might be one right now sitting on the
chair
behind you, in fact.
But then you could say, well is there a brown recluse sitting on the
chair
beside me or not?
And then eventually the Russians reach in, drag you out, plunk you into a chair, and you can now look back at what was an incredible experience.
I'm learning that nifty trick where you can charge your mobile phone battery from your
chair
battery.
I resented the way you moved, your lack of animal grace, the way you would sit in a
chair
to eat, a napkin on your lap, a knife in your hand.
So everybody here has a lot of experience with chairs and apples and dogs, and based on this, you could see unfamiliar examples and you could guess, you could sit on the chair, you could eat the apple, the dog will bark.
The
chair
could collapse if you sit on it, the apple might be poison, the dog might not bark, and in fact, this is my dog Tessie, who doesn't bark.
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