Word: mats
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...Fred has been sulking ever since the report appeared. Freddie is a hound of many moods. Now he flattens himself with his jowl-flaps splayed on his little Aladdin's mat under the kitchen table. He will not rouse himself even when a horde of crows appears like Visigoths on the grass outside, an outrage that usually stirs him to a storm of indignant imprecation...
...could be any butterfly, which butterfly would you be? That's the existential question facing Camille Faucheux, 3, as she sits on her purple exercise mat. She assumes the butterfly pose - knees splayed, the soles of her feet touching. "Hold on to your butterfly wings," Jodi Komitor instructs her Saturday-morning class of mothers and toddlers in New York City. Camille clutches her toes and prepares for flight. Komitor continues: "Lean back, open your butterfly wings and whee!" Her students flap their legs in the fantastical studio, where paper flowers seem to grow out of the bubblegum-pink ceiling...
...welcome mat is out. We want to meet you, to discuss your ideas and to share with you the excitement of our mission. As such, we invite you to join us at two upcoming events. Today at 6 p.m. we will offer an informal informational session in Loker Commons. We also welcome you to join us tomorrow at the IOP at 3 p.m. so that you may meet our new resident fellows...
LINDA CHAVEZ Edged out after W. stays mum. Future "houseguests" not likely to find a welcome mat...
...cameras simultaneously at different angles. And the leaves had to be perfectly yellow. We even implemented a leaf classification system. Special-class leaves could be blown in the actors' faces, first-class in front of them, second-class behind them and third-class were scattered on the ground." A mat gathered leaves as they fell so the crew could collect, clean and classify them, then gently send them drifting back down again...