Sentences with word «flypaper»

Flypaper is a sticky material that is used to catch flies and other insects. It traps them when they land on it, making it easier to get rid of them. Full definition
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* Note that I've tweaked my calculus since this article was first published on Fordham's Flypaper blog on Monday, partly because of feedback from House Republicans.
BOOKSHELF First published in 1956, Roy DeCarava collaborated with Langston Hughes on «The Sweet Flypaper of Life,» a snapshot of Harlem in text and photographs.
post in Flypaper last October.
Smith originally imagined the series would be accompanied by Wilson's text, much like Langston Hughes» text for DeCarava's pictures in The Sweet Flypaper of Life.
We love L'Oréal Paris Colour Riche Balm Pop in Wild Lily and Lancôme Baume in Love in Urban Ballet — both balms — because they create a pretty wash of color and moisturize lips, without the goopiness (or hair - in - flypaper effect) of some glosses.
They'd line the floors with flypaper if they thought that would slow you down for a few seconds.
Slowly, this nondescript motel room becomes a forest of flypaper strips and a thicket of psychoses — and what began as kitchen - sink naturalism becomes, well, crazy shit.
Equipped with the optional Sport package (which includes performance suspension tuning, 17 - inch wheels and tires, sport seats, foglamps, heated mirrors and washer jets and a multi-function steering wheel with cruise control), our test wagon hugged the twisties like flypaper, keeping the vehicle pointed in the right direction when pushed hard, thanks to the standard traction and Dynamic Stability Control (DSC).
Brakes are tremendous, and 17 - inch wheels with 45 - series performance tires offer flypaper grip in corners.
This is a police photo of 69 dogs living on feces smeared carpets, in stacked crates, amid hanging flypaper strips.
In particular, I've noticed instances of Reformer's Disease in discussions with folks over national standards as well as in Mike Petrilli's recent post on Flypaper about teacher tenure reform.
Procter & Gamble Co., which last summer launched Zevo plug - ins that dispatch flying insects to the great bug beyond using blue - lit flypaper modules in electrical outlets, is expanding the brand with a new line of bug sprays.
A massive pile of pork ribs and a Volkswagen - sized hunk of black - as - a-meteor beef sit steaming under the waving flypaper strands.
In Oruro, Bolivia, Cougar safety Scott Peterson was lying diagonally on his undersized bed under flypaper spattered with casualties, listening to the Armed Forces Radio broadcast of the game and biting back the black wish that his teammates not win it all without him.
And there are other players who obviously are not pulling their weight, either, notably guard Byron Scott, who has ceased being a slashing penetrator and has gone back to being merely an outside shooter, and supersub Michael Cooper, who these days is being recognized as much for his brickmanship -LRB-.414 from the floor this season,.392 for all of 1987 - 88) as for his celebrated flypaper defense.
Interestingly, though, the «prepared mind» may be more flypaper than bear trap.
Toner pumped samples of whole blood through the channels, which were coated with an antibody designed to trap any cancer cell that carries a common surface protein, much as flypaper snags pesky insects.
Lucas and Moore also did a movie called Flypaper, a sort of comedy caper that had its world premiere at Sundance.
Title: Flypaper Director: Rob Minkoff Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Tambor, Mekhi Phifer, Octavia Spencer,...
John's initially passive observations blur into a frenetic, subjective tailspin of delusions and inebriated anxiety; his pretty - boy appearance grows grimy, his white clothes assume the soiled hue of flypaper yellow, and arid grit gets plastered to every surface, caked on every sweaty face.
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Andy posted «another indictment of «turnarounds»» on Flypaper just last March, quoting from a Tom Loveless Brookings study:
Update: As Eric Osberg pointed out on Flypaper yesterday, Jonathan Gyurko raised some of these same concerns too.
by Terry Ryan, CEO of Bluum, for Thomas B. Fordham's Flypaper Competition or cooperation?
Post originally appeared in the Thomas B. Fordham Flypaper blog, republished here with slight modifications.
Hang a light source over a sticky, disposable surface (flypaper works well) or a bowl of soapy water.
For Michael Krebber, no aspect of the medium is taken for granted as the canvas becomes a kind of sublime flypaper, fixing individual gesture and media grabs.
HUSH lets us in, «Classical Sirens and Japanese Geishas, be prepared to be seduced and discarded like a piece of old flypaper
We've also heard that it makes great flypaper — just hang a strip of it from the ceiling or doorways to catch unwanted insects.
Over the past three weeks, Fordham's Flypaper blog hosted the charter school wonk - a-thon, an exercise in punditry and policy analysis that exceeded all expectations.
Beginning with Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes's groundbreaking 1955 book The Sweet Flypaper of Life, the exhibition gathers photographic series, installations, and videos by an intergenerational group of artists, including John Edmonds, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lyle Ashton Harris, Deana Lawson, Lorraine O'Grady, Gordon Parks, Sondra Perry, Ming Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems.
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The Evo's flypaper grip on tarmac, snow and gravel continues with two trim levels and sprint times that are as low as 4.5 seconds to 60 mph.
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IMMEDIATELY QUICK HANDLING RESPONSE All Minis have super-responsive handling, but the Coupe, particularly in the Cooper S or John Cooper Works versions, hangs onto twisty roads like a handshake with flypaper.
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He eventually published 140 pictures along with text by Langston Hughes in The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), a fictional family album that tenderly captures intimate moments of domestic life both in Harlem and seemingly everywhere.
They lack solid surfaces on which to land, plus their fearsome gravity and thick clouds of ammonium compounds would make departure a task akin to that of an insect struggling free from a piece of flypaper.
Syndecans are a family of proteins on the surface of cells that act as molecular «flypaper,» helping proteins attach to cells and also helping cells attach to one another.
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