Word: handrails
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...It’s not easy to pick up Cantonese. Unless you really want to say “Please hold the handrail...
King walked ahead of Kyles to look over the handrail outside, down on a bustling scene in the parking lot. Police undercover agent Marrell McCullough (a mole in the entourage) parked almost directly below, returning with SCLC staff members James Orange and James Bevel from a shopping trip to buy overalls. Orange unfolded his massive frame from McCullough's little blue Volkswagen, tussling with Bevel, and Andrew Young stepped up to rescue Bevel by shadow-boxing at a distance. King called down benignly from the floor above for Orange to be careful with preachers half his size. McCullough and Orange...
Gehry's first instinct had been to design an auditorium as asymmetrical as the walls outside. But he was concerned that too many strange angles would make people reject the place. "I wanted to give them what I call a handrail, a visual handrail." He means that he designed a comforting, symmetrical interior in cozy Douglas fir, with gentle curves that strongly recall the work of Alvar Aalto, the Finnish architect whose work is one of Gehry's lifelong inspirations. Gehry's multicolored floral-pattern upholstery is another nod to the comfort factor. A tribute to Lillian's love...
According to witnesses, about 20 people were on the escalator when the handrail suddenly stopped moving but the stairs...
...handrail stopped on an escalator at the Aquarium T stop in 1996, injuring 5 people...