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And so, girls were able to jump rope because their skirts wouldn't catch the ropes.
In the 1950s, in Harlem, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, you could see on the sidewalk, lots of girls playing with ropes.
Sometimes they would take two ropes and turn them as a single rope together, but you could separate them and turn them in like an eggbeater on each other.
Those ropes created a space where we were able to contribute to something that was far greater than the neighborhood.
Now I have been playing with ropes and climbing all my childhood, so that's it.
Now I have all of those ropes parallel like this.
So I found some enormous, ridiculous, giant ski boots and then wobbly, wobbly I get on the ropes.
This is using grass which grows locally and is woven into ropes to build these bridges.
We had to build snow and ice anchors so that we could tie off ropes and rappel down into the hole.
So a chaotic shuffle ensued as this bunch of strangers tied together with yellow ropes wearing "Being Slime Mold" t-shirts wandered through the museum park.
Imagine, in the empty desert, you come upon a huge wheel ringed in skeletons, and someone invites you to come pull a series of heavy ropes at its base, so you walk to one side, where a team is waiting, and you all throw your backs into it, and you pull in turn, and eventually, the wheel roars to life, lights begin to flicker, and the audience cheers, and you've just activated Peter Hudson's "Charon," one of the world's largest zoetropes.
I'm using clamps and ropes and all sorts of materials, weights, in order to hold things in place before I varnish so that I can push the form before I begin, so that something like this can become a piece like this, which is just made from a single dictionary.
As you actually navigate that space and bounce along those elastic ropes, the entire network kind of shifts, almost like a real organic network would.
So I literally took my dried weeds in hand, there were several more of them, and went knocking from door to door to find out who could teach me how to weave these water hyacinth stems into ropes.
And that began my journey of learning how to weave and transform these dried water hyacinth stems into long ropes.
With my long ropes in hand, I was now equipped to make products.
Hundreds of workmen were to labor for years on constructing the Syracusia out of beams of pine and fir from Mount Etna, ropes from hemp grown in Spain, and pitch from France.
The janitor is a bit slower and needs five minutes, and the professor takes a whole ten minutes, holding onto the ropes every step of the way.
By the professor's calculations, the zombies will catch up to you in just over 17 minutes, so you only have that much time to get everyone across and cut the ropes.
As you step on the far side of the gorge, you cut the ropes and collapse the bridge behind you, just in the nick of time.
For example, before aerial package delivery entered our social consciousness, an autonomous fleet of flying machines built a six-meter-tall tower composed of 1,500 bricks in front of a live audience at the FRAC Centre in France, and several years ago, they started to fly with ropes.
We decided to tie ourselves up with ropes to have the strength to lower ourselves into that dark water full of piranhas and alligators.
In the dead of night, the rebels lowered themselves down the cliffside on ropes made from vines, and flanked Glaber’s unguarded camp.
Gator bounces off the ropes and is quickly body-slammed to the mat.
And with a friend of his, he took it upon himself to free-climb a Redwood without ropes or any equipment to see what was up there.
And I began climbing trees with my kids as just something to do with them, using the so-called arborist climbing technique, with ropes.
You use ropes to get yourself up into the crown of a tree.
And what I'd like to do is take you up to the canopy, not by putting all of you into ropes and harnesses, but rather showing you a very short clip from a National Geographic film called "Heroes of the High Frontier."
I know the ropes now, know what the tricks are.
There are no seesaws, jungle gyms, merry-go-rounds, climbing ropes, nothing that would interest a kid over the age of four, because there's no risk associated with it.
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