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  • Roger Schultz, the set and costume designer, has made a very simple but effective set that consists of a raised, circular turn-table in the middle, covered with fake grass -- the cheap, unnaturally green kind -- and surrounded by a little moat filled with pebbles.

    My review of Globe Theatre's "Mesa" ewillett 2009

  • The plastic case cracked open and David wrenched out the hard drive, which looked like a miniature turn-table with a stack of silver disks.

    Final Theory Mark Alpert 2008

  • The plastic case cracked open and David wrenched out the hard drive, which looked like a miniature turn-table with a stack of silver disks.

    Final Theory Mark Alpert 2008

  • It was I that drove you to the turn-table — blind as I then was — I, who placed the dead clay-image above the happiness of life — of love.

    When We Dead Awaken 2008

  • The plastic case cracked open and David wrenched out the hard drive, which looked like a miniature turn-table with a stack of silver disks.

    Final Theory Mark Alpert 2008

  • It was I that drove you to the turn-table — blind as I then was — I, who placed the dead clay-image above the happiness of life — of love.

    When We Dead Awaken 2008

  • Just try to imagine being a teenager in '76, and hearing Blitzkrieg Bop blasting out of your turn-table stereo for the first time.

    Archive 2005-05-01 2005

  • Just try to imagine being a teenager in '76, and hearing Blitzkrieg Bop blasting out of your turn-table stereo for the first time.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2005

  • Component systems—notably the roll carriage, the turn-table, and the control module—were assembled in the Sub-Assembly Department from parts purchased from suppliers.

    Lean Thinking James P. Womack 2003

  • Just the creamy splash of the surf now, the record gathering dust on the immobile turn-table.

    The Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1980

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