Perching the museum on piers will take account of rising waters.
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Static electricity was the chosen perching method because of the robot's small size.
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The mantis reached the fish by perching on leaves of water lilies and water cabbage.
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The female figure climbs into the rope's loop, perching in a pedestrian yet statuesque pose.
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This comes with trade-offs: chickens might like perching on trees, but so do hawks.
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Perching birds, called passerines, make up 6,500 of the 10,000 bird species we know today.
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This perching robotic insect is the smallest flying robot platform that can autonomously attach to surfaces.
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Heliogen solved this problem by perching four super-powerful cameras around the top of the tower.
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From a 280 Guardian profile by Dorian Lynskey: Perching himself on a banquette, he looks impeccable.
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Another 290 miles south, past innumerable cormorants perching on power lines, and you enter another world.
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On Monday, media saw her munching bamboo, strolling and climbing - including perching precariously on a tree stump.
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I can feel everything poised upon a precipice, like perching at the edge of a diving board.
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Oh, and she's a fan of perching her sunglasses (tinted lenses, preferably) on the tip her nose.
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Forget about precariously perching your beloved smartphone on a treadmill tray next time you hit the gym.
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Step One: Hide from museum guards at closing time by perching on a toilet in a bathroom stall.
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On Instagram, Bieber shared a picture of Oscar perching on his tattooed shoulder as the shirtless singer reclined.
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A bird is seen perching on a tree devastated by a fire in Brasilia, Brazil, on Aug. 21.
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The pose felt achingly familiar, conjuring memories of perching on my own teenage bed, toward a landline on the floor.
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People all over the Internet were lying facedown (#planking), hanging upside down (#batting), and perching and staring into space (#owling).
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Whatever remaining dignity left to Copley is further diminished by the gentle mockery of a bird perching on his head.
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Our goal is to use the same concept, which is commonly referred to as "perching," for UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles].
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This drone doesn't just hover, it's capable of covertly perching itself on a vertical wall, just like a fly does.
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However, other photos from the gathering may explain why Conway was looking at her phone and perching on the furniture.
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If you're looking for active seating that doesn't involve perching, leaning or wobbling, the Sleekform Atlanta kneeling chair is ideal.
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Our reporter and videographer reached a stricken village, where some survived the flooding by perching for days on tree limbs.
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I climbed in with Heizer, perching on the armrest of the driver's seat; Malian music played, loud, on shuffle repeat.
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And we're still not sure what's stopping a nearby bird from perching in the wrong place and making everyone's internet lag.
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Perching birds like crows, finches, sparrows, and robins are prolific, accounting for more than half of all bird species alive today.
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Security asked him to leave, but he decided a good way to make his point was perching himself on the ledge.
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She'd wait for hours, perching on the edge of my bed, in darkness, hoping for me to face Simba her way.
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A deconstructed California roll perching atop a perfectly fried pocket of sushi rice seems like a sure-fire crowd pleaser, no?
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These enhancements allow the birds to engage in the perching, dust-bathing, nesting and foraging behaviors they are highly motivated to perform.
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In the third location, where human activity is rampant, the frogs were seen perching on leaves of small shrubs, ferns, and grasses.
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A viral video captured Tuesday appears to show a wild bald eagle perching on the extended ladder of a Minnesota fire truck.
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Dr Floreano imagines search-and-rescue drones capable of perching on walls or landing on power lines, like birds, to survey their surroundings.
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Found within the Green River Formation near Fossil Lake, this seed-eating perching bird lived 52 million years ago during the Early Eocene.
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What about that hawk, red-tailed, you observed perching high in the Walmart Garden Center— up in the scaffolded ceiling above the compost?
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"Unloading the four-wheeler, the dusty road, perching on the rocks at the river, hauling fish back up, bringing it home," he said.
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That means that if you've been in the market for a while, you are likely to be perching on a mountain of profits.
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Porcelain is meant for delicate perching on mantelpieces, to be admired but not touched, as children were once to be seen and not heard.
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She wore a white gown under a structured bolero busy with sparkly peppers and hearts, a tiara perching on her pale Renaissance-style ringlets.
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It's a 52 milion-year-old fossil of the earliest-known perching bird that was equipped with a beak to help it eat seeds.
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Maybe they're perching on a flower box, or the arm of a couch, or a conference table at a strange angle opposite their co-founders.
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They were posted up on parking garage roofs, they lined the office buildings widows, some were even perching on top of street signs and pillars.
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Despite the mishaps, there was intense rivalry for the privilege of perching in a flimsy metal capsule on top of 100-plus tonnes of rocket fuel.
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The five metre tall hand-face sculpture by artist Ronnie van Hout has arrived from Christchurch and is now perching on the roof of the gallery.
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The first video's silent final minute, for example, features two orange cats perching on a fence as snow falls gently around them — an extremely soothing sight.
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Take your goodies and join the locals perching on the sea wall across the street, with the water susurrating beneath you and small boats floating nearby.
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"During the day this species is entirely immobile, perching upright like a statue, closing its eyes, and blending in with the branches it hides in," Cancellare said.
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Those birds moved about his acres, pecking and scratching through the pastures, fertilizing the grass his cows would graze, perching in the low branches of his trees.
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Its hunting strategy may have involved perching on tree boughs or cliff walls and using gravity as an assist to tackle unsuspecting prey, according to previous research.
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Kim showed off her famous curves in a slinky black Chanel bikini, perching on steps near the pool's edge as a friend laid out on a swan float.
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Welfare scientists tend to favor aviaries (cage-free) over floor systems (free-range) because they allow better perching and thus give less dominant birds better places to hide.
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The 16th century listed tower house has been perching precariously by the edge of the river, near the Queen's residence at Balmoral, as the banks beside it crumble.
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It basically means that todays perching birds actually 're-invented the beak,' re-evolving many of the beak types that were lost when those early species died out.
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I lubed it up with a water-based lubricant and hopped on, perching in front of the dildo and on the buzzing textured part as I got situated.
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Their fossils reveal that the ground-dwelling birds had long, sturdy legs, like those of a kiwi or an emu, nothing like the delicate legs of perching birds.
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So the evolution of wind power over the years has largely been a process of building bigger and bigger blades and perching them atop higher and higher towers.
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When Shelton was seated, Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney (Dan + Shay) got even chummier, perching on each of Shelton's long legs; Smyers even bestowed a kiss on Shelton's cheek.
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Theresa May raised eyebrows by perching herself on the steps of the royal throne; it is three decades since a prime minister last attended a debate in the Lords.
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Water Potter's "Happy Family" (1870) packs rabbits, puppies, and birds perching on cats' heads into a house-shaped glass box, making for a rather creepy batch of cute pets.
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Moritz A. Graule, a doctoral student at M.I.T., was working on the perching problem under Robert J. Wood at Harvard, the leader of the team that developed the RoboBee.
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Although it's mostly seen perching on the seat like a boss, the cat is also known to make room for other commuters to sit by it during peak period.
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Plus, sage grouse don't like to live around tall structures because they look like perching places for predators, so wind farms and other kinds of development threaten the bird.
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The exhibition includes objects and artworks that can be directly associated with her, such as an ink painting of a phoenix perching in a paulownia tree that Cixi, herself, painted.
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I greet her at the door and she looks so sad, so hollow, that I open my arms and she tumbles against my chest, perching her head against my shoulder.
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The restless asses on faux-leather seats, each under the impression that by squirming and perching they can suppress the powerful urge to lob the coffee table at the wall.
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Before 1869, San Francisco folks made wealthy by the Gold Rush turned Rincon Hill into one of the city's most elite neighborhoods, perching their mansions upon and around the hilltop.
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The robots can also dock at a companion station to charge, and each has a little perching arm that lets it grab on to stuff to anchor itself or hold things.
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She ended the performance in spectacular fashion, perching herself on two huge hands of a clock that were raised skyward to meet a giant clock that was then lit on fire.
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"More generally, if you look at most small flying things, they're interacting with their environments through the use of these mechanisms all the time: they're perching, climbing, dragging things along," says Estrada.
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Wearing a long pink wig with a grey stripe, Cardi B displays her tattoos and glances at the camera while covering herself with one hand and perching her leg on a chair.
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Before the man could reply, a rat jumped through a hole in the bag he was holding and ran up his arm, perching momentarily on his shoulder while considering its next move.
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The shape of the Mate X when it's semi-open is great for perching it up on a surface — you can basically use the thinner rear part of the display as a kickstand.
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Until recently, however, it didn't perch, and perching is the next frontier for tiny flying machines because robots, like birds, bats and insects, can keep going longer if they conserve energy by resting.
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What really happened was: Hill threw Rizzo a totally delirious curve ball, one that started out aimed at his shoulder blades and ended up perching on the inside corner of the strike zone.
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The virus is spread mainly by Culiseta melanura mosquitoes and various tree-perching birds found in forested wetlands, but it can circulate in small mammals, reptiles or amphibians as well, per the NIAID.
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Their paper is called "SpiderMAV: Perching and Stabilizing Micro Aerial Vehicles with Bio-inspired Tensile Anchoring Systems," by K. Zhang, P. Chermprayong, T. M. Alhinai, R. Siddall, and M. Kovac from Imperial College London.
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Leaning against a speaker or perching on a stool, Chappelle looks utterly relaxed, and has the great, unforced timing of someone who knows exactly where his routine is headed and how he'll get there.
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Also known as passerines, these birds are distinguished by the arrangement of their toes, in which three point forward and one points back—an orientation that, as the name suggests, is amenable to perching.
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It was, in any case, ten times as many as he had ever seen in a day, and, he thought, the most passerines, or perching birds, ever seen in one day in North America.
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Approximately 300 vultures have taken to resting on CBP radio towers in Kingsville, Texas, perching on the support structures of the masts and "generally creating a safety hazard," according to a spokesperson for CBP.
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"While it's still not as foolproof as landing on a level surface, we are closer than ever to making perching accessible outside of a research environment," writes Morgan Pope, a researcher involved with the project.
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Switching to higher-welfare breeds — chickens that are able to move painlessly and engage in natural behaviors like perching and playing — is critical, as chickens are killed in greater numbers than any animal except fish.
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In the beautiful art produced by Jorge A. González, a small pterosaur can be seen perching on a Bajadasaurus spike—a nice touch, given how prolific these winged reptiles were in South America at the time.
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There's no perching the device on your chest and tilting the display forward so you can read sans glasses, in fact even laying it on your chest, in laptop mode, send a tremor of fear through you.
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They compared the transcriptomes of brain tissue in reproductive males from two closely related species of mice, voles, perching bird, frog, and cichlid fish—from each animal category, they looked at one monogamous and one non-monogamous species.
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Each year around Valentine's Day, as days lengthen and the sun seems stronger, cardinals begin to make their presence known, perching on the tallest fence posts, the largest shrubs, and tree branches where they can scope the terrain.
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And if you'd rather sit somewhere outside the splash zone — instead of donning a poncho, perching on the edge of the pool with the rest of the audience and dangling your feet in the water — that's allowed, too.
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The poem, as I understand it, uses the metaphor of a sparrow perching on and then departing a window ledge to describe the world "behind" the illusions of self and free will, a world of actions without agents.
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Riding around the muddy construction site, Jeff Stava, the project's boss, points to where the splash zone, skate park and giant adventure playground will be, and the stretch of water where perching pelicans will soon be ousted by rafts and kayaks.
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The color of candy apples, the pork chops looked decidedly un-tasty; on the tongue, they performed about as well as the eggs, the burn perching for a moment after first contact before dissolving away, like a sun-bleached nematocyst.
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In a study published in this week's issue of Science, researchers say this new perching ability could be key to creating insect-sized aerial robots that can help with a long-term observational tasks — traffic control, to search-and-rescue.
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Around Wall Street Not on the same page: Financial markets showed the diverging path of U.S. and euro zone monetary policy, with Wall Street breaking new ground, the dollar perching near a 14-year high, and German bond yields touching record lows.
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But in Ren's world, a woman licking a nipple is as normal as a man licking someone's toe, those points of contact given the same weight as a penis reposing on a couch, as a cat perching on someone's bent-over back.
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Walking and Talking Walking and Talking: Given that you are basically perching on this restaurant's outdoor chairs, which they own, pay for and maintain — without even so much as setting foot inside the restaurant — I don't know if you should complain about your friends.
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In one of the images, Jenner gazed down at the camera while perching on what appeared to be a furry white chair, while in another she stood in front of it, with her hands in her hair and her hip cocked to one side.
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Image: Lance Grande, Field MuseumA 52-million-year-old fossil found in Wyoming is now the earliest known seed-eating perching bird in the scientific record, a discovery that's shedding new light on the history and early eating habits of these now-ubiquitous birds.
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Other scientists are pursuing drone systems that sip energy off power lines while perching on them like a bird, or "eat" organic matter and burn it for fuel (that robot fell out of favor when journalists discovered it could, theoretically, live off human corpses).
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She daringly broke with the prescribed dining room etiquette of the era by perching on the arm of a chair across from her customers, extolling sea-urchin butter poured over raw sea urchins, or sea scallops still alive in their shell, awaiting the stove.
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"In birds, captive parrots have been reported to scratch with sticks, but to date the only avian tool use for physical maintenance reported in the wild is 'anting' (depositing ants on one's plumage), observed in many species," mostly passerines, or "perching birds," the scientists note.
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There is mounting circumstantial evidence that they did so this year: The adult birds and the juvenile, which is at most a few months old, have been spotted perching on the same branch, communicating and feeding together, implying that the young bird hatched in the area.
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Given Lowepro's been designing bags for decades, the Urbex is, unsurprisingly, a solid gear hauler with dedicated compartments for laptops, tablets, water bottles, a generously-sized glasses pocket, and a pass-through loop for securely perching the pack atop a suitcase—a feature I rarely see in backpacks.
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We felt that perching on an overhang is more challenging since you have to have an adhesive force to overcome gravity The chosen technology would work equally well on the ground or ceiling, said Robert Wood, a co-author of the new study, in an email to Mashable.
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Friday night at the Clyburn Fish Fry—where the temperatures would have even impressed Satan—I sought a dollop of air-conditioning by perching at a table near where paper containers of fried whiting and white bread were given out to those who could endure the hour-long lines.
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Perdue is also paying to install windows in barns, and it may help offset the costs of adding the avian equivalent of playground equipment — things like inclined slats for perching, haystacks for pecking and hiding places where chickens lower down in the pecking order can get away from bullies.
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In both "Untitled (Animal)" and an untitled, bird-like form, whose face is white on one side and brown on the other, the artist used thick slices of tree trunks to craft unidentifiable creatures' heads, trapping them in awkward, wood-and-metal frames or perching them on long, wooden legs.
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Run by Kelsie Kerr, one of the chefs at Chez Panisse who taught me to cook, Standard Fare is mostly kitchen; at lunchtime, customers turn the wide sidewalk into an ad hoc dining room, perching atop a row of metal stools with bowls of soup and focaccia sandwiches on their laps.
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Not only has Trump "pretty much single-handedly brought back the coat as a principal player," Bennett wrote that she ups the ante on styling by just perching the coat on her shoulders, which limits her range of motion, but also highlights that she is able to get doors opened and things carried for her.
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On Friday, while visiting a war memorial, the royal shopped from her own closet when it came to her millinery, opting for black perching hat with ostrich feather detailing, also from Lock & Co. The newlywed wore it back in 2011 for her first Trooping of the Colour, just two months after her wedding to Prince William.
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In the palm-fronded garden of his 11-bedroom belle epoque manse, La Jungle du Roi ("Jungle of the King"), with its mounted zebra heads, fur pillows and abundant mirrors, beside his neo-Roman swimming pool, 250 guests — "friends, clients and editors," including Eva Longoria, Bella Thorne and Carine Roitfeld — guzzled Philipp Plein-brand champagne and snacked on gummy bears before perching on clear plastic Napoleon chairs to watch the show.
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Ryan's interest in materiality and repetition is evident in other aspects of her oeuvre; she likewise seems to enjoy topping metal armatures with hand-molded ceramic figures that roughly resemble flocks of perching parrots, as with her 2017 work, "Parasol," or the austere and suggestive "Diana" (2017), that presents a delicately feathered chandelier-like blossom of rose quartz emerging from a giant seed pod rendered in rusted cast iron and hanging from an industrial hook and chain.
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