There was a long conference table as well as squashy leather armchairs set up in a circle.
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Something ambient is finishing––something that seemed to last an hour and sound like squashy orange synthesizers yawning.
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"I'm fairly philosophical about it," Marr says, leaning back into the squashy leather sofa we're sharing under the rows of framed records.
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CreditCreditvia Charles Hall He used Jell-O and cornstarch at first, but the squashy gunk, poured into a vinyl bladder, was too heavy to move.
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I stayed in this bed, and it was one of the more comfortable beds I've ever slept in, with squashy pillows and a firm yet supportive mattress.
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Zombies have been endlessly mined as cinematic symbols — for disease, poverty, race conflict, class conflict, escapist fantasy, and more — but here, they're just a repetitive visual joke, good for a few jump scares and some squashy sound effects.
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Those sophisticated beauties tossing martini glasses through their hands on vodka commercials were replaced by a squadron of happy little squashy frogs of a vibrant emerald shade that plop between my finger and thumb and taste oddly of milk.
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"Rumors," she said, sitting on a dark, squashy sofa in an opulent reception room in the Versace Palazzo on Via Gesù a few days before the show, rolling eyes rimmed in dark shadow and making exaggerated quote marks with her fingers.
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After the interaction between the two squashy bags was perfectly settled, I had the opportunity to speak with Senga Nengudi about her career, the tendency to put artists and their art in boxes, and the current political situation in the U.S. * * * Hyperallergic: You're currently installing a new retrospective at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds.
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Kailash attends "Colonial Encounters," a class given by the deeply charismatic professor Ehsaan Ali (a figure based on Eqbal Ahmad), who is friends with Edward Said, teaches over squashy plastic cups of red wine, and was put on trial, during the Vietnam War, for conspiring (along with a priest, a nun, and others) to kidnap Henry Kissinger.
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Ransome used the mining and prospecting knowledge of Oscar Gnosspelius featuring him in the 1936 book Pigeon Post as "Squashy Hat" and dedicated the book to him. His daughter modelled for a drawing of Nancy Blackett in the same book. Gnosspelius died on 17 February 1953.
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Revueltas' first film was La Deconocida de Arras (1946). In 1951 she played Rosa Suárez, viuda de Ortiz (the widow of Ortiz) in the film Islas Marías, starring Pedro Infante. In 1953's Sombrero, Revueltas played Tía Magdalena. Bosley Crowther of the New York Times called it "a big, broad-brimmed, squashy sort of picture, as massive as the garment for which it is named".
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They are disappointed in that Mrs Tyson does not permit them to cook over a campfire, owing to drought conditions and her fear of fires, meaning that they have to keep in time with her meal-schedules. Titty eventually finds a spring by dowsing, and they move closer to the Topps. They send daily messages home by pigeon. While exploring the ground, they notice a rival prospector whom they call 'Squashy Hat'.
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This game was popular with farm workers who used clenched hands to hit a hard ball off the side wall of the Barr Castle - similar to Gaelic handball and fives, or rather like squash without the use of rackets or a soft, squashy ball. The court was of earth, beaten hard. Galston became World Champions at this handball sport, however it is no longer played,Travel Scotland - Galston. Accessed : 2009-12-05 the last official game being in 1939.
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He shows Dick by other tests that they have found copper pyrites, a rich copper ore. A pigeon named Sappho, whom they had previously labeled as "undependable", suddenly arrives with an urgent message from Titty, FIRE HELP QUICK. Captain Flint rings Colonel Jolys, who musters his volunteer fire fighters, and they all rush to help save the Topps. After the fire on the fells is extinguished, Squashy Hat is revealed to be Captain Flint's friend Timothy, who has been too shy to introduce himself to the children.
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After days of prospecting, Roger finds a seam of gold-coloured mineral in an old mining excavation, and crush enough of it in order to produce a golden ingot in a charcoal furnace. Unfortunately, it disappears when the crucible breaks, and Dick, the expedition's professor, has only a small amount to test. Meanwhile, Squashy Hat is consulting the old slate miner, entering through beneath the fell via an old mine working. Seeing him, the younger three children walk inside the fell, resulting in Titty having to follow them in to look for them, with very nearly fatal results.
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In modern literature, some writers have mentioned this fruit: Saki uses medlars in his short stories, which often play on the decay of Edwardian society. In "The Peace of Mowsle Barton", the outwardly quiet farmstead features a medlar tree and corrosive hatred. In "The Boar Pig", the titular animal, Tarquin Superbus, is the point of contact between society ladies cheating to get into the garden party of the season and a not entirely honest young schoolgirl who lures him away by strategically throwing well-bletted medlars: "Come, Tarquin, dear old boy; you know you can't resist medlars when they're rotten and squashy." Italian novelist Giovanni Verga's naturalist narrative I Malavoglia is titled The House by the Medlar Tree in the English translation.
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It is called the Marvis Bay Golf and Country Club in the UK version of "Ordeal by Golf", though it is not located in Marvis Bay in the UK version of another story, "The Heart of a Goof". Fictional golf clubs other than the Oldest Member's are mentioned, including Goldenville (in "High Stakes"), Squashy Hollow (in "Sleepy Time" and other stories), and Wissahicky Glen, the club to which the Oldest Member belonged when he lived in Chicago in "The Heel of Achilles". He usually tells his stories from his favourite chair on the terrace overlooking the ninth green, and insists on using this chair in "The Purification of Rodney Spelvin".Wodehouse (2008) [1922], The Clicking of Cuthbert, "The Purification of Rodney Spelvin", pp. 223–225.
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