Contortionist with Sweety the Puppy, Great Raj Kamal Circus, Upleta, India, 1989 19 x 19 inches Platinum print; printed later
Not exact matches
Some 200 times stronger than steel yet lighter than paper and more flexible than a
contortionist, graphene is hailed as a miracle material
with the potential to revolutionize products and processes across industries from consumer electronics to biomedicine.
Halloween costume parties, cooking classes, Mardi Gras bashes complete
with a
contortionist and «Jeans Week» are just a few of the fun and quirky things that forward - thinking Bay Area companies are doing right now to lure some of the top talent from around the globe — and keep their current... < read more >
Since Christianity is based on the Bible, it is inconceivable how one can reconcile progressive attitudes towards gender equality
with what is written in scripture without being an extreme semantic acrobat and moral
contortionist.
The kids were, I have to brag, a particular hit on the con floor because you haven't lived until you've seen 3 - year - old Leia and Anakin holding hands and gawking at everything from a
contortionist LeeLoo from The Fifth Element to a Groot on stilts
with a baby Groot in a pot.
Emily Cross and her colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig scanned the brains of 18 people
with functional MRI while showing them photographs of a
contortionist in ordinary positions — stretching to one side, for example — and in contorted postures such as lying on her stomach
with her toes touching her forehead.
With no rigid parts, an octopus can bend its arms into positions that would snap the bones of even the most flexible human
contortionist.
It's funny, because for me it's
with side zips that I feel that I need to be a bit of a
contortionist — particularly
with getting my bust in the right spot!
The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf's life — such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan's (Jean - Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid -»40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the»50s; Piaf's abandonment as a young girl by her
contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes
with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizations — dazzling audiences in the process.
For his sidekicks, Hellboy hangs
with his father figure, the aged and dying Professor (John Hurt), a fresh - faced FBI recruit (Rupert Evans), an aquatic man - creature called Abe Sapien (embodied by
contortionist Doug Jones and voiced — without credit — by David Hyde Pierce) and a «firestarter,» Liz Sherman (Selma Blair) on whom Hellboy has an unquenchable crush.
The X6's high ride height combines
with a low roofline to make getting in and out a
contortionist's act, even for front occupants.
Even adults can sit in the third row and they can do it without having to be
contortionists thanks to Nissan's EZ Flex Seating System
with Latch and Glide.
Orphans Pippa (the mentalist), Sam (the overly strong boy), Thomas (the
contortionist), and Max (the knife - throwing «sharpshooter») get some firsthand experience
with chaos when Mr. Dumfrey purchases a cursed shrunken head for the museum.
He's become something of a
contortionist too as he balances just so to reach those hard to get at spots on his chest
with his hind foot.
DJ Pulse will mix the best lounge and dance music, setting the stage for fun house mirrors, stilt walkers, carnival barkers, fire breathers,
contortionists and a Halloween costume contest at midnight
with prizes.
With over 30 levels there's hours of
contortionist fun to be had.
How developed countries such as Australia fulfil their «precautionary» obligations here, especially
with regard to yet another curious UN concept — «slow - onset [climate] events» [Decision 1 / CP.16, paragraph 25]-- while keeping their hands in pockets, will — like the antics of a circus
contortionist — be an interesting spectacle.