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Leonardo was a man who, according to one biographer, "was plunged into a kind of ecstasy by devising never-ending systems of cogwheels and screws"--rather like Buckminster Fuller deliriously multiplying geodesics.
Note that this has become an essential politico-journalistic routine: a political figure's organization screws up and the press reports how angry he/she was about it.
"Dog Bites Man" is a poor substitute, but beats "Man and Dog Work Really Hard Late at Night for a Long Time Until One of Them Screws Up."
He has an explanation of why it's OK in this case, but his queasiness moderates his delight at putting the screws on Starr the way Starr put them on Clinton.
1.126), it would appear that Duke Orsino was not fully aware of what was befalling him when he admitted to Olivia that “I partly know the instrument that screws me.”