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...Picture this: the best 40-second kung fu blitz from the Matrix, paired with a series of arabesques and topped with a dash of bravura Beijing opera. Huang tosses himself 2 m into the air and, with his body perpendicular to the floor, spins 360 degrees, landing lightly on his feet. A ballet leap and acrobatic tumble later and he's perfectly aligned in a diagonal with the three other dancers...
...about this tall,” McClary says of the first-year formerly known as box 1157, placing his flattened hang perpendicular to his sternum. “So we moved...
...time, the platform (Jews call it the Temple Mount) had up to seven entrances. Most experts believe the remains of an expansive, carved-stone stairway on the south side of the mount, perpendicular to the Roman street, were once the main entry for common pilgrims. At the foot of the stairs are the ruins of a series of baths, for ritual purification, and small shops, some of which still have hitches for animals...
...pair of perpendicular lines: making a cross is as simple as rubbing two sticks together. Yet how much potent symbolism can be read into this image; how much religious and social weight it has borne. Place it on a nun's habit or a Klansman's hood and get drastically different readings. Tweak its four ends and a swastika emerges. There are familiar evocations of the crucified Jesus in this piquant Christmas tome (actually more a Good Friday book), but Klein lets her imagination roam wild through pictures of trapeze artists, surfboarders, plastic cutlery and body sculpture. The figure...
...mother-and-child duo, the mother skinny and snaggle-toothed, the baby perfect and in pink, 11 months old, little black shoes, shiny; they're headed home. We roll with them past horse-drawn wagons and slow, lanky cows. Egrets skim over the road, perpendicular. Air warm, sky overcast. The car screams...