One languid summer afternoon, I was coming from a midday yoga class at the office gym when I ran into my top boss at the elevator.
Customers must make an appointment in order to view frames, since the area is small, but that worked to my advantage: A friendly salesgirl met me at the elevator when I arrived and tended to me quite cleverly while I tried on several pairs.
Ms. Gillespie, the mother of four adult children, was returning home from a shopping trip at a nearby Key Food Saturday at around 4 p.m. when she exited the elevator at the fifth floor to find Mr. Isaac standing there, according to her nephew Rickey Causey and police.
Those were some of the wide-eyed reactions of my fellow visitors as we stepped off the elevator at the 86th floor.
Authorities said Ms. Gillespie, a mother of four adult children, was returning to her Prospect Heights apartment from a shopping trip to the local Key Food on Dec. 17, 2011, when she left the elevator at the fifth floor to find Mr. Isaac standing there.
The actors tweeted a photo of themselves in the elevator, and Ferguson also posted a short video at the 35-minute mark of the whole elevator shouting "Get us out!"
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Paulsen appeared the day after the dinner, exiting an elevator at the Waldorf without entourage or fuss, dressed in a business suit even on a Sunday.
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At the 2012 Space Elevator Conference, held in Seattle from August 25th to 27th, much of the buzz was around just such a flight of fancy.
Ninety-five years ago, members of the Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB) boarded the freight elevator at 46 W. 38th St. and rode to the top floor.
Schmoozing with the doorman and then the elevator man at one client's building, he was admitted by the housekeeper.
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Kraig Lindsay says things also have slowed at the Offerle Cooperative Grain Elevator in Bucklin, which he manages.
In the elevator at the hotel on the last night, I heard a groan and looked over to see Travis Ortmayer, the strongman from Texas, doubled over with his elbows on his knees.
While this technology still has a long way to go, challenges such as NASA's October 21 First Annual Space Elevator Competition at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley are spurring design teams to push the limits of both their robots and the super-strong, carbon nanotube-based ribbons that are key to supporting them.
LiftPort, a group that already holds the record for tallest elevator, is taking a second stab at the technology after going into "hibernation" in 2007.
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The elevator doors opened at the eleventh floor, and, before I had time to get out, the two men in white entered with a gurney.
We ascend the narrow wooden stairs (he has plans to widen the staircase, rip out the charmless elevator and flood the place with light) and arrive at the living quarters, decorated almost exclusively with the furniture that Owens has been designing since 2006.
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To become an elevator installer or repairer takes an apprenticeship of at least four years, says Robert Caporale, the editor of Elevator World magazine.
For a moment I felt as if I were riding in an elevator as I looked at the blah dashboard.
BlinkFeed is meant to give you bits of information as you glance down at your phone in line at the coffee shop or while in the elevator.
Murray was the most tormented player in tennis the brilliant phenom born at the wrong time, squeezed out by a crowded elevator of champions.
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At 5 pm, the ducks march back to the elevator, which returns them to the rooftop Royal Duck Palace, where guests can also catch a glimpse of them through glass windows during off-hours.
The restoration, led by the government and the Hong Kong Heritage Conservation Foundation, has retained its old-world charm while adding conveniences such as a nifty elevator that rises at an angle up the bluff on which the hotel sits.
At its worst, this produces the alcoholic beverage equivalent of elevator music, the Soft Sounds of Lager.
Hopping out of the taxi at the Starbucks there after an amazingly quicker ride than normal in the still relatively empty streets, I took up elevator up Tower A to go see Feng Deng, who heads NLVC.
It can set in anywhere: In the car while driving alone, in an elevator at work, or even while typing this.
If ever there were an elevator to pitch in, it was that one at the New York Public Library on that day.
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Leandro Erlich's "Stuck Elevator" (2011) is more complex: A freestanding box, about the size of an elevator shaft, it reveals, through an open door, the elevator's lifting mechanism and, through a gap at the bottom, the interior of the cabin, with a newspaper on the floor.
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At last, I turn into a spot and start following the crowd heading toward the elevator.
One afternoon at the Shangri-La, my wife and kids and I decided to abort a long elevator wait and take the stairs.
The incident comes three days after a woman was killed in a freak elevator accident at a Madison Avenue office building.
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