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Examples
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But when a voice says, “Hold the doors, will ya!” she sighs and presses the elevator's “Open Door” button.
Woman, Running Late, in a Dress Dallas Woodburn 2011
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She didn't dare look at herself in the elevator's triangular mirror as she made her way downstairs, where she bolted past the doorman in the lobby, and fled into Riverside Park.
(7) Plus and Minus Nathaniel Bellows 2011
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I continue to wonder why an elevator's "open door" button can't be made significantly larger, or of a different shape and color, than the floor-selection buttons and the "close door" button.
Roger Lewis's pet peeves about the District and its architecture Roger K. Lewis 2010
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The card transmits the number to the card reader on the turnstile, an elevator is dispatched, and the elevator's number is displayed on the turnstile, according to court filings.
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Twin Lofts in New York Robert Wright A few years ago, the pair collaborated on the hallway connecting their apartments, painting the walls and doors black, finding vintage light fixtures and sanding the elevator's interior steel door to create a brushed look.
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There are moments of poetic beauty even here, like the obvious joy that Malle takes in photographing the elevator's dark interior, lit only by the shaky flame of Julien's lighter, or the wonderful shots of a rain-slicked highway outside Paris as the two young car thieves race with a Mercedes, the headlights and street lights just hazy circles through a thick gray fog.
Archive 2008-06-01 Ed Howard 2008
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The severely damaged grain elevator's headhouse, left.
Deadly Dust 2008
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"Anything" would probably mean the elevator's quietly sitting on the ground floor waiting for maintenance, but the image of its plunging to the ground makes better copy.
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There are moments of poetic beauty even here, like the obvious joy that Malle takes in photographing the elevator's dark interior, lit only by the shaky flame of Julien's lighter, or the wonderful shots of a rain-slicked highway outside Paris as the two young car thieves race with a Mercedes, the headlights and street lights just hazy circles through a thick gray fog.
Elevator to the Gallows Ed Howard 2008
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The guy whose backpack got in the way of the elevator's closing, buying an extra second that kept those onboard alive.
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