All right, that's enough windup, let's bring on Dave Chang.
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"He's used to the windup record players," Mr. O'Rourke teased.
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Suddenly his whole body convulses like a windup alarm clock.
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WAKE UP WITH WINDUP TOYS I eat breakfast on the run.
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All right, without any more windup, here's Kieran Snyder from Textio.
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Everything beyond that moment is as mechanical as a windup toy.
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"It's like a pitching windup, but it's much more subtle," he said.
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He looked really good out of the windup for five innings, he was outstanding.
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The Windup Girl is a particularly chilling take on what the future could hold.
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Courtesy of Keith Law, please enjoy this weirdo windup from Red Sox pitcher Roniel Raudes.
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Don't come in with this big windup, because who knows where the ball will go?
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Aster handles the windup shrewdly with a persuasive realism, a deliberate pace and crepuscular lighting.
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Then, with the momentum of a pitcher in full windup, he launched into the piece.
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Just as she knows that this whole big windup with his arm is silly. Pow!
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He was in the mess hall, listening to the news on an old windup radio.
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The only guarantee so far is that the distinctive THX windup noise will probably sound fantastic.
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CEO Tim Cook didn't do much of a windup — we're jumping right into the Mac update.
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The weirdo pause and stick-the-leg-straight-out move in his windup is also curious.
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The motion on McEnroe's serve is still the same — the slow windup, the left-handed delivery.
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I see a lot of young people getting into watch collecting, buying a mechanical windup watch.
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And then his father dies on the ice, like a punchline without any windup in the punch.
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GUILFOYLE: He looks like one of those little windup toys you put in the bathtub with you.
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I enjoyed Negan's monologue and the suspense of the long windup to the inevitable arrival of Lucille.
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You went to some length in your windup to tell us what a dedicated mother you were.
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In fact, it's an animal-free zone, unless you count a windup bird in a cage ("In").
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And then the windup to the impeachment itself, which coincided with a major bombing campaign of Iraq.
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He's wearing an old windup watch to ensure that he budgets enough time to return before daybreak.
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"I want to see the windup and the pitch," he explains to Otsmane-Elhaou in the video.
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I loved some of the clues today, like for LEGO, TUNE, WINDUP, SQUIB, FAIR DICE and OPENS WIDE.
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I think his unusual windup kept the hitters off balance and he also fields his position quite well.
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But, Justin was a bad boy last weekend and broke their safety code with a textbook windup swing.
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But a corollary of Forster's observation about endings is that the windup isn't the primary attraction of good fiction.
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You had a guy who played a drum and a cymbal, and he played it like a windup monkey.
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Each cameraman also had a small, indestructible Bell & Howell 16 mm windup camera that held three minutes of silent film.
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This is a long but needed contextual windup for the game I spent last night with on Apple Arcade, Possessions.
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Indeed, part of baseball's appealing history can be traced to its diversity in those moments before the pitcher began his windup.
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After months of windup, the music-streaming company filed documents this week to sell shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
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He has also streamlined his service motion, cutting fat from his windup in a search for more accuracy and greater pop.
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Larsen started 210 with the Yankees farm team in Denver, where he went 21960-21967 and developed the no-windup delivery.
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I collect old pop-up and windup toys, like Popeye and Olive Oyl, and arrange them in dioramas in glass cases.
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Wheeler said a small change in his delivery — not bringing his hands over his head in his windup — was the difference.
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Larsen started 21967 with the Yankees' farm team in Denver, where he went 281-291 and developed the no-windup delivery.
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Last night, Miami Marlins ace Jose Fernandez uncorked a doozy of a moonbeam after the home plate ump bailed mid-windup.
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I'll use flowers, windup toys, drinking straws bundled and bent like starbursts, paper cupcake cups, pompoms, lotto tickets, headlines from the newspaper.
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The Walking Dead can often feel like it spends so much time in its windup and not enough on the punch line.
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In the first inning on Saturday, toeing the third-base side of the rubber and inhaling deeply before each windup, Snell looked jittery.
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Musk gives a "yeah" and von Holzhausen, unable to act against his better judgment, goes into a half-hearted windup and lets fly.
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It was a very long windup to say Roman Mars is the host of 299% Invisible, co-founder of the Radiotopia podcast network.
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This ridiculous windup of processing through subpoenas and court fights, scheduling testimony and hearings, are patrician formalities in the middle of a blood battle.
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After gauging Moore's windup on the next pitch, a called strike, Ellsbury took off on the next pitch, a full-count fastball to Gardner.
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So he's mostly left to bluster and primal-scream on the periphery, like a windup toy wearing itself out in the corner of a playroom.
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In his hit science fiction novel The Windup Girl, aggressive genetic modification of the global food supply renders our staple crops susceptible to horrific diseases.
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The attention is lavished on his foils and tormentors, who are cut from gaudy, worn-out cardboard and set in motion like furious windup toys.
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"I was just trying to imitate Tyler's windup," said Skaggs, whose husband died last year at age 27 after an accidental overdose of pain medications.
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Ellsbury said he could not recall many of the details of their dialogue, but he remembered Espada telling him to watch Moore in the windup.
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Directed by Thomas Caruso against a backdrop of clever projections (by Lisa Renkel), "Emojiland" takes too long in the windup, introducing us to its world.
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That was a long windup to me getting to ask you, Nick Quah, give us your favorite podcast you want us to listen to today. Midsummer.
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Bacigalupi is best-known for books like The Windup Girl and The Water Knife, which have some pretty bleak portrayals of the future of our planet.
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That it is largely used in the windup, proves that teams have been wary of sign stealing coming from somewhere other than second base for years.
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The revelation itself, however, was held back until after the first commercial break, a windup that some fellow journalists, eager for any bombshells, found exceedingly lengthy.
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In the late 19963s, as a United Nations-sanctioned envoy, he helped negotiate the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and the windup of the civil war in Nicaragua.
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In a number of ways, the book reminds me of Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl, about how climate change impacts Thailand in the distant, post-oil world.
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As long as it's part of an effort at playing defense and you don't give it the full baseball swing windup, the refs typically let it go.
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"Burrito Hill Mirror," a reordering of Mr. Klein's recent piece "Burrito Hill," features an uneven chime like that of a windup music box, beautiful but subtly unsettled.
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Ring-turned toys are named after their production method (and not to be confused with windup toys that move by twisting an attached ring or winding key).
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If not, do the actions of the heroes and vigilantes really make a difference, or are they all little windup toys, marching on to their metaphysically predetermined end?
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Resist the elves and the messiahs, the apple-cheeked grandmothers and the man-size golems of sentient snow; resist the melodies that jump and flip like windup toys.
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But in general Wall Street is offering up apologia - rather than an apology - for the dramatic windup last week of investment products that had profited from calm stock markets.
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He'd be standing on the mound, doing that ambient shimmy he did seemingly in order to make certain he looked cool as fuck before he even started his windup.
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In 1980, the Dodgers introduced Valenzuela, a charismatic left-handed pitcher from Navojoa, Mexico, who energized fans on both sides of the border with his unorthodox windup and stellar pitching.
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Unlike last year at this event, when he was coming back from a 15-month layoff, Woods did not slow down like a windup toy as the round wore on.
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"The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot" revives an exploitation film tradition, in which a sensational title hooks viewers for a movie that's all windup and no pitch.
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The emotion has visited both primaries, sweeping a Republican debate stage on Saturday night, when Mr. Rubio briefly resembled a windup doll who could speak only about President Obama's political scheming.
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Lucchesi has a herky-jerky windup in which the 25-year-old left-hander brings his hands high overhead, lowers them to his chest, pauses and only then rocks and throws.
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The beginning of the show feels like a slow windup, and even in its seventh episode (the last episode given to critics), I still don't know if the punch completely landed.
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It's a little different, in that it was a mechanical windup instrument featuring a row of handmade cogs producing sounds on a jumble of objects, including a ruler and a bent fork.
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Mr. Baylis did not, of course, invent the notion of generating electricity via cranking; he plucked it from the past, having gotten his idea by visualizing an old-fashioned windup record player.
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When you watch games with or on phones, even if you're at the ballpark, the pitcher's windup can be interrupted by breaking news or maybe a reminder to pay your water bill.
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Reus stopped the ball and stepped back as Kroos took his full windup and curled a shot that went over two defenders, around goalkeeper Robin Olsen and then inside the right post.
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Then, inspired by Annihilation, we talk about books that make us go "WTF?!" including: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Windup Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, and Wool by Hugh Howey.
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But Larsen went 11-5 in 1956, flourishing late in the season when he developed what was then an unorthodox no-windup delivery that gave him better balance while disguising his pitch selection.
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The scenes are winsome and funny till disaster strikes: A ceramic child is abruptly beheaded by a hammer; in a segment called "Chicken Salad," a sudden avalanche of greenery buries a windup toy bird.
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The government theme in the windup debate was stated by Foreign Secretary George Brown, who told the House, "We expect to get in, we would never have gone this far if we did not".
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Most of Betances's misses were wild outside, and it did not seem to matter whether the hitter was left-handed or right-handed, or whether Betances was working from the windup or the stretch.
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Watching them together does feel like witnessing a rarefied coupling: With her windup impish curiosity and his reserved charm, they recall one of those adorable wildlife videos where, like, a coyote befriends a badger.
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This little-known bus travels from one side of the Williamsburg Bridge to the other before circling back, like a windup toy stuck on an endless loop between the edges of Brooklyn and Manhattan.
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Tool of War by Paolo Bacigalupi Paolo Bacigalupi might be best known for his adult novels such as The Windup Girl or The Water Knife, but he's also earned considerable acclaim for his YA novels.
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Kings would gift extraordinary objects to other rulers to impress them with their wealth, such as a windup automaton that poured wine or a boat carved of gold and set with hundreds of precious stones.
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A pitcher must start his windup or be in the set position before the timer expires, and batters must be in the batter's box and alert to the pitcher with at least 238 seconds remaining.
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He'd stand to the side and see me on a mound, watch me start my windup, and remember when he'd allowed himself to believe he was witnessing the next Bob Gibson, the left-handed version.
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It's a role so identified with the play that they sell windup sheep in the theater bookshop, and in her long scenes on the exploded-kitchen set, she could hardly have seemed more at ease.
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Friend had his first winning season in 1955, his fifth year with the Pirates, when he altered his windup so he could hide the ball and his grip from batters until the last possible moment.
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In the fifth inning, he singled, advanced to second on a hit, took third on a balk and stole home — with two outs and two strikes — when Matt Moore ignored him and stayed in the windup.
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Before the game, Rockies starter Tyler Anderson and catcher Dustin Garneau were strolling along the left-field line and headed to the team's dugout from the bullpen just as Kershaw was about to go into his windup.
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The towering left-hander, acquired from the Seattle Mariners last off-season, was supposed to be one of the starting rotation's guardians, blessed with an oversize windup and a high-22018s fastball that could overwhelm even elite hitters.
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" The windup of this nervousness is that "if model-driven strategies take hold of the market on the upside, and the bearish observations ... do not materialize, the pain in the hedge fund world will be that much more acute.
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Today Mr. Bradley collects mainly over the internet, focusing on German imports made between 1850 and 1920: Santa-themed jars and candy dishes; nodders (windup bobbleheads); Dresden ornaments (highly fragile paper composites hand-assembled by local artisans); and more.
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"Underhand, sidearm, overhand, with a different windup for every pitch and with a carload of different pitches, he showed 'em how it's done in as grand a coming-out party as any ballplayer ever had," The Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote.
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Repeating the words required a vigorous windup: Seth arched his back, pumped his arms in the air, and then shouted out the words so loudly that his five-year-old cousin, Keylan, who came to the lesson uninvited, covered his ears.
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On Wednesday, Mr. Greenberg's fifth day on the stand in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, David E. Nachman, a state trial attorney, focused on the windup and aftermath of a two-step $500 million reinsurance deal with General Reinsurance Corp.
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They enter — stage left, stage right — a smiling, yammering, disparate group that seems like the windup to an elaborate joke: a salesman (Jon Hamm) walks into a motel with a priest (a soulful Jeff Bridges) and a singer (Cynthia Erivo).
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Another "Moment Musical," in F Minor, its momentum chirpy and steady like a windup toy, showed that Mr. Abduraimov knows how to get out of the way of the music, imposing his will in just one brief tease of the tempo.
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"You have to give Clay a tremendous amount of credit for the mental preparation and being ready to go," said Boston manager John Farrell of Buchholz, who has gone to a no-windup delivery and changed his arm angle in recent weeks.
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Ms. Baganova layers more whimsical images on top of this: A dancer shambles through with a huge butterfly net; another prunes the tree; a man tousles his partner's hair, then pulls strings out from her clothes as she cackles like a windup doll.
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This is such a long windup because when I turn to you and say Manifold Garden is a puzzle game that works me for me, that I'm sticking with it despite everything in my bones saying I should run away—that means something.
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Collectively, they created a virtual micro-city composed of makeshift living spaces built from repurposed plywood, shipping pallets, and fabric scrims linked together by a labyrinth of twisting pathways that meandered through accumulations of antique furniture, paintings, windup clocks, vintage radios, and musical instruments.
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And at the top of Rockefeller Center in Simon & Schuster's offices, sitting behind a big executive desk (decorated with a crowd of colorful little plastic windup toys), Alice used all that intellectual vigor and interest to fuel a generation and more of American publishing.
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The new position, and the greater thrust of the engines, produced an aerodynamic challenge during a maneuver called a windup turn—a steep, banked spiral that brings a plane to the point of stall, which is required for safety tests, though it's rarely used in typical flying.
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This vibrant and teasingly cacophonous work featured mini-concertos for each ensemble member: a tangy steel pan solo for Mr. Quillen, incandescent drum kit fireworks for Mr. Treuting, and a broody marimba soliloquy for Mr. Sliwinski (needled by the whir of a small band of windup dinosaurs).
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The wipe-system, where a battery is sharp enough to have the pitcher swipe at his uniform with his glove once or twice just before starting his windup in order to modulate the sign up or down just before each pitch, is the best analog defense against sign stealing.
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And it wasn't even a normal part of the front-flap jacket copy — all the pseudo-sentient hand-waving that passes for plot summary in the world of Dan Brown, in which the great triumphs of human thought are reduced to windup toys skittering around a shoe-box maze.
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As the controversial F-2135 program is now beginning the slow windup to full-scale production, there is still no strong consensus about whether it's worth its price tab of possibly as much as a trillion and a half dollars, or it is a colossal waste of money.
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As the controversial F-212 program is now beginning the slow windup to full-scale production, there is still no strong consensus about whether it's worth its price tab of possibly as much as a trillion and a half dollars, or it is a colossal waste of money.
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WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, will force Democrats on Tuesday to take a stand on the Green New Deal and its ambitious goal of conquering climate change — after a long windup designed to drive a wedge between cautious Democratic senators and the liberal activists pushing for climate action.
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As expected, the report was critical of Comey for "deviating" from the policies and traditions of the FBI when he made public announcements during the windup of Clinton's presidential campaign and gave his opinion regarding her conduct in dealing with emails during the period she served as secretary of state in the Obama administration.
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As Dr. Videovich, "specialist in curing television addiction," Mr. Davidovich, dressed in a white lab coat, fielded calls from viewers, introduced ersatz commercials and, in a segment called "Videokitsch," sold odd pieces of store-bought merchandise and limited-edition objects of his own design, like television sets in the form of savings banks, cookie jars, planters and windup toys.
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The album had a belated, semi-official release on Mystic Records in 1988; it features an insert that juxtaposes Radinsky's draft-day headlines and photos of him mid-windup with the lyrics to songs like "Shit Parade" ("Radio dictates what you hear/No weird music, no not here") and "Fight Back" ("Ignorance, stupidity go hand in hand/Sexism, racism rule this land").
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Jacoby Ellsbury, after measuring the leisurely windup of the Tampa Bay left-hander Matt Moore, took off toward home on a two-out, full-count pitch that was wide of the strike zone, sparing Brett Gardner the decision of swinging at it and allowing Ellsbury to slide safely headfirst, his hand reaching the near corner of the plate before catcher Curt Casali could lunge forward and tag him.
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With the windup of the Vietnam War, Mr. Silvers opened up the pages of The Review to a host of British writers like Frank Kermode, A. Alvarez, Isaiah Berlin, A.J.P. Taylor and Christopher Ricks, who lent the magazine a more sedate literary tone, which made it seem less a successor to the brawling political journals that dominated New York intellectual life in the 1930s and 1940s than to majestic Victorian flagships like The Edinburgh Review.
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There is good art, most of it conceptual, including a large optical sculpture by the French artist Gabriel Leger, but also half-unpacked boxes (though Dumas moved in over three years ago), and long, low shelving units loaded with art books and auction catalogs and topped with random stacks of sentimental tchotchkes, including a tiny windup plastic swimmer that his interior designer mother once gave to her staff as Christmas presents, a branded neon-orange hard hat and a boxed Playmobil figurine of the Greek god Hermes (no relation, though coincidentally responsible for protecting merchants and athletes).
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