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Musicians and visitors enter under a canopy supported on groups of splayed steel columns, through doors with windows set at a child's eye level.
HAMBURG COUNTERPOINT
In these pelvises, the acetabulum, or socket into which the tip of the femur bone fits, is oriented outward and upward, suggesting that pterosaurs' legs were splayed out, giving them a clumsy, sprawling gait, writes Unwin.
Pterosaurs waddled when they walked?
There's certainly a prurient curiosity factor at work here, given the advertisements showing the film's two characters, Denny (David Wissak) and Katia (Katia Golubeva), splayed nude on a desert rock.
PRETENTIOUS AND POINTLESS X 29
In one, Barbara's hands are splayed and crossed before her, catching light and being caught in turn.
Artur Nikodem: Robert Mann Gallery. (New York)
There are hoarse, percussive breaths that sound like death rattles, desperate falls, defiant stares, splayed fingers, slapping, crawling, bending, huddling and keening in silent anguish.
EXCELLENCE LIGHT AND DARK
The single-storey house is organized as two slightly splayed wings of sleeping quarters flanking a central living and dining room.
FOLDING PATTERN
3) Forensics students examine the mannequin Jane Doe, splayed to represent a drive-by shooting victim.
HIGH-SCHOOLERS QUEUING FOR CLUES TEENS EXAMINE MOCK CRIME SCENES
At first glance the outstretched petals resembled wings, making the flowers look like butterflies--an illusion encouraged by the fact that they were pinned to the wall like insects splayed out in a natural history museum vitrine.
Lynne Yamamoto: P.P.O.W. (New York)
The fairies, in mauve bodysuits, with the women on pointe (as are the mortal women), dance with a solid push into space, with taut, splayed fingers like tree branches.
LOVE AND MISCHIEF, REVISITED
Occupied only by an asymmetric chair, this deck is cocooned in splayed white surfaces.
SILENT COLLISIONS
By placing the six separate ads - simple affairs with the cartoon logos splayed across white backgrounds with short slogans - the firm hopes to break into a key advertising venue.
DISNEY'S 'BABY EINSTEIN' GETTING BOOST
But they seem to be everywhere: lined up for Center Stage, which is showing at a nearby cineplex; in the gym bathrooms, where pairs of ballet flats peek out from below the stall doors; on street corners, chatting animatedly and marking steps with their hands, and on the hotel deck, where they sun themselves, turn somersaults in the pool, and leave wet, splayed footprints in the elevators.
BUNHEADS CONVERGE AT RDA PACIFIC FEST

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