The cab jerked and shot up two floors with the doors partially open, dragging her into the elevator shaft and crushing her.

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It had a circular elevator shaft for the round elevators that he believed would be the vertical transportation of the future, although it did not receive one that fit until a 1970s renovation.

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We do funerals nicely here, elegies and memorials, "celebrations of life, " we call them, whether it's a ninety year old math professor in a nursing home or an unlucky student drunkenly falling into a snow bank or tumbling down an elevator shaft.

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But this mini-game embraces the Hitman ethos by giving you points for headshots, as well as taking out targets such that their bodies are disposed out of sight: off the edge of the building, into a pond, and even down an elevator shaft.

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But I had just gotten out of elevator and just made a right turn into a hallway going towards my office, and that is when the first plane hit, and I believe, not exactly sure, but the flames went through elevator shaft, engulfed me.

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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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