Word: perched
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...aesthetic experience to be complete.”For one viewer on Oct. 26, this experience included a trip to the hospital. While testing out “Leverage,” a piece that encouraged attendees to hop on for a ride, Ross was thrown from his perch atop a giant seesaw when his seat suddenly detached from the rest of the contraption. After walking around a bit at the reception, Ross requested medical attention and reluctantly allowed himself to be strapped to a backboard for an ambulance ride to the local emergency room. This action, EMTs assured...
...plated) and vibrant color (the bedroom juxtaposes canary yellow with magenta). The penthouse walls are decorated with gesso oak branches mounted on mirror to evoke the tangled briars that grew up around Sleeping Beauty's castle. There are lamp fittings shaped like birdcages, twig-like door handles on which perch golden birds, a tented ceiling, painted silk walls and an abundance of cherubs and shells, as well as a number of watercolors by Messel, two of them designs for The Sleeping Beauty. It's all utterly romantic and theatrical, if a little over the top?No?l Coward commented...
...mistakes. He’s still young. He’s a great leader who can make plays with his feet and his arm.”Ford will have to justify his coach’s conviction if the Big Red wants to knock Harvard off of its perch at the top of the Ivy League standings.The Crimson presents a formidable challenge for Cornell, and according to Murphy, Harvard has not even reached its potential.“We’ve done a solid job...but we’re not remotely a great team...
...plated) and vibrant color (the bedroom juxtaposes canary yellow with magenta). The penthouse walls are decorated with gesso oak branches mounted on mirror to evoke the tangled briars that grew up around Sleeping Beauty's castle. There are lamp fittings shaped like birdcages, twig-like door handles on which perch golden birds, a tented ceiling, painted silk walls and an abundance of cherubs and shells, as well as a number of watercolors by Messel, two of them designs for The Sleeping Beauty. It's all utterly romantic and theatrical, if a little over the top - Noël Coward commented...
...TIME while spying for the communists-a double life kept secret until the mid-'80s; in Ho Chi Minh City. The first Vietnamese to become a staff correspondent for a U.S. news outlet, An said he was an "honest reporter" who did not spread misinformation. From his unique perch at TIME's Saigon bureau, the popular, plugged-in An was able to achieve feats for both sides, alerting the Viet Cong to the impending buildup of U.S. troops in the mid-'60s and secretly arranging for the release of American journalist Robert Sam Anson, captured in Cambodia by the Khmer...