But the stairway to hell that Trump is building is only an extension of the stairway that's been being built this whole time.
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Kylie Jenner strategically used a Louis Vuitton purse to shield the goods, but the stairway to the gym became a stairway to heaven.
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After the building swayed about six feet, he and a handful of other employees headed down Stairway A, which as it turned out, was the only stairway still intact.
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The trustee had argued that "Stairway" and "Taurus" had similar chord progressions, and that Page may have written "Stairway" after hearing "Taurus" while Led Zeppelin and Spirit were touring together.
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"The stairway acted like a chimney," the fire commissioner said.
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The stars lit the sky like a stairway to heaven.
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Federer walked down the plane's stairway shortly after 1 p.m.
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And it formed, according to BBC, "a stairway to heaven."
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"Stairway to Heaven" in court: What makes a song original?
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"Stairway to Heaven" is an original — no new trial needed.
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"But to do that you had to have the stairway, and if you had the stairway, how do you not destroy the front elevation -- which is what America thinks of the Brady house," says Knight.
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All the floors are connected by a sculptural stairway and elevator.
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"She hiked the stairway to heaven," Dog announced at the time.
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But the first few bars of "Stairway to Heaven" certainly are.
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"There's a stairway going by an enormous fish tank," she says.
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So you may ask yourself, "what makes a song a 'Stairway'"?
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The final product was meant to be a stairway to heaven.
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Glitter's official name is Grand Champion Camp Wrinkles Stairway to Heaven.
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Before I take the first step up the stairway, I look up.
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Now we head up a stairway, past sconces she discovered in Morocco.
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When Theresa's fetus dies after a stairway accident, events grow more ominous.
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Inside, the doctors were listening to "Stairway to Heaven" on the radio.
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That's a great question, so let's define what a "Stairway" is. 22.
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The London boys get an extra point for following "Stairway" so nicely.
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Is there an elevator to my balcony seats or just a stairway?
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At the other end of the lobby is the hotel's sculptural stairway.
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"Enough is enough," he tells her in the stairway of the court house.
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An 18-foot crystal chandelier sits in the center of a circular stairway.
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Another look at spiral stairway that connects the surface and the underground shelter.
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Now, excuse me while I make myself a GLOO stairway to the stars.
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Near a stairway emblazoned with a giant Beretta, I speak with Derrick Adams.
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He turned as he saw the senator make his way toward a stairway.
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The "Stairway to Stardom" that just opened at Here is not a spoof.
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In 1817, he found an opening in a hillside, and, inside, a stairway.
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It should be clear what he's building: It's a stairway to literal enlightenment.
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A stairway covered in barbed wire leads to the former visitors restaurant and terrace.
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His gun went off, the round flying down the stairway and striking Mr. Gurley.
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But "Stairway" remains their crown jewel that is, for the moment, still tarnish-free.
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The section in question accounts for about 10% of the playing time of "Stairway".
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She was found hanging in the stairway leading to her family's second-floor apartment.
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One protester physically blocked DeVos from a stairway at one entrance of the school.
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The only song you aren't allowed to play on it is Stairway to Heaven.
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They braved a packed stairway to the train platform, while being jostled by crowds.
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An off-center stairway juts out, a symbolic ascendance into a temple of art.
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Baby Face said that when she balked, the pimp threw her down a stairway.
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Two firefighters were waiting on the landing of the stairway to the bunk beds.
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"I thought to myself, 'I'm so sick of teaching 'Stairway to Heaven,'" he recalled.
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We were happy to see the installation remain on the stairway through this Monday.
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Climbing up the back stairway, the couple were able to secure a night's lodging.
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I just heard a version of "Stairway to Heaven" w/ the lyrics to Gilligan's Island.
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In a stairway leading to the bedrooms, two pieces of pop art adorn the wall.
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Of course you can use other people's steps, but you can't walk their whole stairway.
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His wife and four daughters scrambled down a stairway onto the field to embrace him.
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But the "Stairway to Heaven" lawsuit is about composition, not how the song was recorded.
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One shows a potted plant; another an angled stairway with railings embedded in the ink.
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Once in the front room, the stairway curves and disappears into the dark hallways above.
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A stairway now connects the main entrance and front garden to the studio and rear garden.
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Advertisements for a photo-processing service in a stairway at Times Square subway station, circa 1977.
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Also on display through October 1st are the FAILE flags and Enjoy Your Trip stairway installation.
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A symbol for stabilized, regional wealth, Khan's stairway to nowhere asks more questions than it answers.
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The diagonal desire line intersects with a stairway to a terraced cafe, the building's public square.
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A stairway up to Studio B, the exercise studio, is lined with rainbow spray-painted hearts.
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Mr. Page and Mr. Plant, who wrote the "Stairway" lyrics, said their creation was an original.
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Also through here passes a spiral stairway, which sinks abysmally and soars upwards to remote distances.
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Another stairway leads to a third level, where there are two more bedrooms and a bathroom.
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Once, she passed out on the stairway at a gallery, and another time at an opening.
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At 13 minutes of verbal bravura, it's the "Stairway to Heaven" of Gen X self-examination.
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Up a stone stairway and under a portico, the main entrance is on the second floor.
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That first dinner — a "stairway to heaven" as Mayle called it — didn't quite go as planned.
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It was also named the millennial "Stairway to Heaven" in an intense bracket tournament by Noisey.
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It was in a restaurant next door that we found a shared stairway leading to the party.
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They believe the fire started in a stairway the apartment shares with other units, according to KSAT12.
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"It was an offering associated with the ball game, just off the stairway," said archaeologist Raul Barrera.
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San Diego Fire-Rescue announced on Twitter that a stairway collapsed at Vault PK on Saturday night.
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When asked if she and her brother had ever discussed "Stairway to Heaven," Janet Wolfe said yes.
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After you reach the staging area below Masada, it's a short stairway up to the fortress itself.
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Several crawled to a stairway at the back of the building in a desperate attempt to survive.
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About the only things that are missing are the squat toilets on the Beat Hotel's stairway landings.
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At night, we'd walk to the top of our stairway and see if there was any action.
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Did Led Zeppelin's 1971 mega-hit "Stairway to Heaven" violate the copyright of the 1968 song "Taurus"?
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He involves them in projects that maintain the public pathways and repair stairway railings and water pipes.
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Walking down the stairway, I entered the "Croghan Street Station," the code name for this particular stop.
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Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant and Jimmy Page are about to climb the stairway to the Los Angeles courthouse.
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Nails were exposed, plumbing improvised and a makeshift stairway to the second floor was extremely hazardous, they say.
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Surrounded by boats named Lady Killer, Passion Fruit and Stairway to Heaven, Mr. Faraguna waited, ready to race.
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"It gets interesting when they get to the stairways and the walls end for the stairway," he said.
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The two four-bar bits also resolve quite differently; "Stairway" with a clearly punctuated G to A-minor.
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Burn one and let your head explode as the artist attempts to build his enormous stairway to heaven.
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A stairway bisecting the structure permits visitors to climb to the top to take in the glorious vistas.
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Everyone stepped over the mess and into dining rooms to the right or the left of the stairway.
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The apartment's stairway acted "like a chimney" and the fire rapidly spread through the apartment building, Nigro said.
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The jury found "Stairway to Heaven" and "Taurus" were not substantially similar, according to the Ninth Circuit ruling.
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Coming up to the top deck to get off requires navigating a narrow stairway with only one exit.
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Passing one another on the double-helix stairway, they're reminded of today's ongoing struggle for justice and equality.
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What remains striking about the original "Stairway to Stardom" is its mix of sincerity, enthusiasm and oblivious ineptness.
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A federal appeals court on Monday restored a jury verdict that found "Stairway to Heaven" was not stolen.
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A door led to a large hall with a stairway that went up past a stained-glass window.
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People striding on seemingly firm ground would disappear suddenly into the soft earth, as if descending a stairway.
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Lipka and Borsuk were seen by a librarian in the stairway, and chose to drop the book and run.
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Surprised riders lost their balance, tumbling downwards and causing a dangerous pileup at the bottom of the moving stairway.
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Authorities discovered Stokes' body in the stairway at his home in Mt. Morris Township, about 80 miles from Detroit.
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Hey, at least we'll never have to endure a beginning player stumbling through "Stairway" at the local Guitar Center.
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One protester stood in front of the stairway entrance in the school, and DeVos walked back to her vehicle.
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And there is still a spiral stairway running between the hotel's ground floor and a train platform directly below.
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Also known as "Stairway to Heaven," the movie stars David Niven as an R.A.F. bomber pilot who cheats death.
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Why did the plaintiffs wait more than 40 years after "Stairway to Heaven" was released to bring the case?
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That is the entire case for Taurus-as-Stairway, the partial similarity of four bars of guitar, also omitting the different backing instruments in the section in question (in "Stairway", two recorders floating above the guitar line, in "Taurus", sweeping strings below it and a noodling electric guitar quiet in the mix).
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Stairway railings inside buildings are outfitted with signs displaying floor information in formats that people can feel with their fingertips.
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One protester stood in front of the stairway entrance in the school, and DeVos walked back to her vehicle. Sec.
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The team of scientists confirmed the existence of a small ramp or stairway, along with portions of a religious altar.
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Guards testified that Mr. Strickland was behaving erratically and attacked an officer, causing both to fall down a concrete stairway.
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But the winding wooden stairway, as well as a throne in the old banquet hall, testify to its storied past.
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The observation was posted beneath an image depicting a grinning Ms. Griscom descending a spiral stairway, though on her rump.
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Other discoveries weren't so welcome, like a gaping hole in the wall of a stairway leading up to the balcony.
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The two men recounted fleeing the building and hiding in a sheltered outdoor stairway during the height of the storm.
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The entrance hall leads to a stairway, beyond which are three good-size bedrooms, two bathrooms and a family room.
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A Robert Motherwell canvas hangs in the rear and a Robert Rauschenberg painting on mirrored aluminum is in the stairway.
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A short stairway ascends to a second-floor entrance that opens to a foyer with more stairs to the right.
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When the police arrived, they went to the back of the house, where a stairway leads up to the attic.
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A solid spiral stairway off the corridor, typical of 15th- and 16th-century architecture, leads to the two upper floors.
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A long, wooded driveway leads to the house, with a stairway up to the main entrance on the second floor.
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A long, wooded driveway leads to the house, with a stairway up to the main entrance on the second floor.
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The stairway in the three-story living quarters was barricaded with a steel gate that the SEALs had to blow open.
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The only parts of the interior unaffected by the webby haze are the entrance and the stairway leading to each floor.
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At one point, she tries unsuccessfully to get back on the elevator only to be caught and dragged toward a stairway.
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DealBook readers: The Reuters Breakingviews predictions book, "Stairway to Heaven, Highway to Hell," offers smart financial ideas for the 2016 playbook.
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One night during their extended stay at the stone cottage, in front of a roaring fire, "Stairway to Heaven" was born.
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Prior to his preseason debut, the stairway leading to LaVar's lower-bowl seats was packed to the brim with autograph-seekers.
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For instance, "Stairway to Heaven" is not even in the top three most-played tracks on Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album.
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The traveler closed the door, then proceeded to a stairway that was actually a ladder, which he had to descend backward.
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To take things to their logical conclusion, The Fast and the Furious series as a whole is the "Stairway" of film.
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Another stairway leads to the third-level guest rooms: three bedrooms with dormers, three full bathrooms and a small living room.
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He was coming out of a script meeting, he said, and could not open a door leading to the theater's stairway.
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The siding that had wrapped around a stairway providing access to the elevated house was gone, and so were the stairs.
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Things have even gotten testy at times: In October, someone was filmed throwing eggs at people taking pictures at the stairway.
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Mr. Page even testified that "Stairway to Heaven" was reminiscent of the "Mary Poppins" song "Chim Chim Cher-ee," from 1964.
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In India, we tromped up a concrete stairway into Sari Bari, a social enterprise started by volunteer-turned-entrepreneur Sarah Lance.
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The camp was just a handful of tents on the glacier's slope, connected by a little stairway carved into the snow.
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The stairway leading down to the church was pitch black on Tuesday afternoon because they're trying to conserve fuel for the generators.
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Experts hired by the band contend both "Stairway to Heaven" and "Taurus" use notes that have been used in music for centuries.
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His father was paralyzed from the neck down after falling in a stairway in 1948, when Mr. Murray was 9 years old.
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The Led Zeppelin song "Stairway to Heaven" is one of the most ubiquitous (some might say overplayed) songs on classic rock radio.
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"Stairway to Heaven" was recorded between December 1970 and January 1971, and was first performed in March 1971, according to court documents.
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I pass in front of a throng of men — standing, sitting on the floor or on the stairway, waiting for an audience.
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While Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" is a well-known template for rock music, very few have managed to follow it well.
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" It was only in the 2000s that rock bands got their shit together and produced several candidates that lived up to "Stairway.
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A stairway at the front of the house leads to the second level, currently used only by the owners, Mr. Brouard said.
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At the core of the house is an oak stairway resembling the interior of a chambered nautilus that links all three floors.
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Two of the guest suites have sizable sleeping lofts, and a small stairway off the kitchen leads up to the staff quarters.
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He then went into another office, stabbing a 37-year-old administrative employee, and descended the stairway toward the building's giant courtyard.
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Things have even gotten testy at times: this past October, someone was filmed throwing eggs at people taking pictures at the stairway.
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A stairway covered by steel arches takes Slack employees to the 10th floor, as if climbing to the summit of a mountain.
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The room he found, at the top of a musty, water-stained stairway, cost more than his government maintenance loan could cover.
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There's scant details on the follow-up to 2015's Stories, but here's hoping it includes his full "Stairway To Heaven" cover.
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While "Stairway to Heaven" has never been released as a single, the album is estimated to have raked in royalties approaching $600 million.
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To reach the makeshift second floor, where Friday's concert was held, visitors had to walk up a stairway made partially of shipping pallets.
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In 1970, British rock band Led Zeppelin crafted one of their biggest hits, "Stairway to Heaven," in an idyllic cottage in rural Wales.
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Does Kevin McCloud of Grand Designs have to duck and cover when he says he prefers one style of contemporary stairway to another?
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Let's not forget that Johnson was the runaway Masters favorite last year until he slipped on a stairway at his Augusta rental home.
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As the show went on, furs and khaki design were introduced, to the sound of a cover of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven".
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"Stairway to Heaven" is safe — or rather the pockets of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant will not be emptied of millions of dollars.
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The case focuses on the famous opening of "Stairway to Heaven," in which an acoustic guitar plays arpeggiated chords in a descending pattern.
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As I watched him mount each step of his stairway, every complaint about the lack of an album felt like a gross overreaction.
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The stairway was too long and steep to climb up on the return trip, so I had to walk around on Shakespeare Avenue.
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Local media reports said that moments prior to the buildings' collapse, as many as 15 young people were standing on the adjoining stairway.
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I marvelled at the Escher-like dimensionality of a stairway, and at the snowflakes that had begun to drift among the palm trees.
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What's left is a three-story house full of rooms at different heights, linked by a stairway in the center of the home.
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"Runaway" follows the "Stairway" model to the hilt, and also has a verse from Pusha T, who raps like Jimmy Page plays guitar.
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INDOORS The owners thoroughly remodeled the kitchen and opened up the stairway from the main floor to the lower level, introducing more light.
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"The trial and appeal process has been a long climb up the 'Stairway to Heaven,'" Circuit Judge Margaret McKeown wrote for the majority.
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On June 24, 1973, an arsonist set fire to the stairway leading to the popular men's club that burned down under mysterious circumstances.
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But that worry lifted when I came to the dramatic stairway next to the relatively new funicular that runs down to the valley.
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In Leith's makeshift schoolhouse home, a family was sleeping on the stairway as all classrooms were full with up to 15 people each.
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All you have to do—while it boils—is listen to "Stairway to Heaven" and then, there you have it: a perfectly cooked lobster.
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The incident led to the firing of a dispatcher who told the nurse there would be a search of the stairway after the Oct.
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Oakland Fire Chief Teresa Deloach Reed said emergency responders found most victims on the second floor given that the pallet stairway had become inacessible.
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On a large steep stairway in St. Nicholas Park, Kori Newkirk's "Sentra" offers visitors three portals to pass through as you ascend or descend.
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The second floor of the house, which has an ample terrace, can be reached by an external stairway as well as an internal one.
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While you won't be recreating Stairway in its glorious entirety with this thing you can get a nice approximation of the early acoustic parts.
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Many songs, like Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird," layer in various peaks in sound that keep you along for the ride.
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The sweeping 135-step stairway, built between 1723 and 1725, links the Piazza di Spagna with the Piazza Trinità dei Monti at the top.
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Copyright Act During the trial, Malofiy requested to play the sound recordings of "Taurus" and "Stairway to Heaven" for the jury, which Klausner declined.
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From the other primary perspective, we will observe the irregular stack of boxes, ascending like a stairway to architectural and — Silverstein hopes — financial heaven.
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Outdoor space: A stairway descends from the screened porch to the fenced backyard, which has a terrace and stone paths that cut through greenery.
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Prince, in effulgent gold and purple stripes, announced his memoir as he leaned on a Plexiglas barrier on a stairway high above the crowd.
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Not everyone is happy about the large numbers of tourists stopping to pose for pictures on a stairway that many Bronx locals use daily.
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"What premium economy does is allow an airline to offer a stairway to heaven if you will," said Henry Harteveldt of Atmosphere Research Group.
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He is now designing different elements of the space, including a new stairway and entry, with a goal of opening it by July 12.
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Suddenly a small door next to the stairway opens up, fluorescent light flooding into the dark mansion: a secret staircase to the servants' quarters.
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Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant didn't jack the rock classic "Stairway to Heaven" ... according to the jury in their song theft trial.
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" Friends remember the woman who performed "Stairway to Heaven" at her best friend's wedding and rollerbladed around her college quad in a bikini as "fearless.
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Hearing "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin feels like sitting in a sound studio with your eyes closed, and you're plugged straight into the amp.
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Page, who co-wrote "Stairway to Heaven" with Plant and composed the guitar riff in question, testified he had not heard "Taurus" until recent years.
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Some more poking around leads me to a winding stairway that ends in golden double doors with a scantily clad woman embossed on each one.
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Even Led Zeppelin got "Stairway to Heaven" cleared in court earlier this year, and the guitar riffs in question were pretty well documented on paper.
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Mehretu worked on the vast canvases flanking the museum's stairway, each 27 by 32 feet, at an abandoned church in Harlem, close to her house.
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Mr. Page and Mr. Plant deny ever having heard "Taurus" before the case came to light and say that "Stairway to Heaven" was written independently.
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So it's a handmade railing for a hotel, or a door and facade for a restaurant, or a stairway for a high-end apartment building.
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So we're doing "Stairway" the way they would play it live, so it gives us a little more room to maybe improvise a little bit.
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Footage on social media showed passengers screaming as the stairway appeared to crumple after racing down the Repubblica station in central Rome on Tuesday evening.
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On Olympics VADUZ, Liechtenstein — Balloons still bobbed on the stairway, more than two weeks after the 105th birthday celebration for Baron Eduard von Falz-Fein.
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My dance partner led me up the narrow, poorly lit stairway to the back of the building, when he suggested we find somewhere more private.
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But the nature of, say, "Black Beatles" is wholly different from a "Stairway" or its imitators, the likes of which we may never see again.
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After lunch, Friedkin makes me descend the Stairway to Hell, the 75 steps in the movie's climactic scene that I had avoided my whole life.
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He was visiting the island with a group of friends, and they offered to carry him up the short stairway from the tarmac, he said.
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Racist graffiti using derogatory language about African Americans was found in the stairway of the same building earlier in the month, according to the website.
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He is media shy; in Washington, he typically takes a back stairway to reach the chamber during votes, to avoid the usual scrum of reporters.
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A short distance from there we parked on the sidewalk at Piazza Oberdan, and Mr. Incontri motioned for me to follow him down a stairway.
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On the second floor is a bedroom suite with a walk-in closet and a bathroom that can also be reached by an external stairway.
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"Stairway to Heaven," Led Zeppelin's 1971 megahit, defined rock radio for decades and helped make its credited writers, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, extremely rich.
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Lightner's son, Jaiden Cowart, died from injuries sustained after falling September 25 in a stairway near the baggage claim area, according to CNN affiliate WSOC.
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The spokesperson added that Amazon is regularly sanitizing all door handles, stairway handrails, elevator buttons, lockers and touch screens, among other surfaces, at its facilities.
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But he has nonetheless turned this musical, which is based on the 2003 Jack Black comedy and opened last month, into his personal stairway to heaven.
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A tall curved wall in the background suggests a decaying facade of some once-grand building; a narrow, precipitous stairway leads up to the railroad tracks.
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It was unclear if the city was aware of more serious violations such as just two exterior doors and wooden pallets partially forming a makeshift stairway.
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In 2013, the body of Lynne Spalding, a 57-year-old patient who had been missing for more than two weeks, was found in a stairway.
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Skidmore's complaint seeks to have Wolfe's name added to the writing credits for "Stairway to Heaven" and damages in an amount to be proven at trial.
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Just as beloved were Mr Page's tinkling acoustic guitar and Mr Jones's keyboards and woodwind, which combined to produce the famed opening of "Stairway to Heaven".
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Klausner wrote that the evidence presented so far represented a circumstantial case that Led Zeppelin may have heard "Taurus" performed before "Stairway to Heaven" was created.
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As the plane remained diagonal, pointing skyward, Wings of Rescue President Ric Browde sat dejectedly on its dangling entry stairway and said the flight was canceled.
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As he sat down to work out the opening of "Stairway" years later, maybe something about the pretty, simple harmony came back unbidden from his memory.
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On a recent Friday, those patrons included Amber Martello, 24, who had traveled from New Jersey with three friends and spent 30 minutes on the stairway.
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For the 1973 Whitney Biennial he connected the floors of the museum by running wide swaths of adhesive tape up and down the museum's stairway walls.
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Off the kitchen, a dining table with room for eight overlooks the double-height living room, reached by way of a curved metal-and-wood stairway.
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Airbus cabin marketing executive Ingo Wuggetzer said that introducing a slimmer stairway instead of the double staircase would generate enough space to add 20 extra seats.
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At one point, I spent close to an hour making a bananas GLOO stairway around a massive room crawling with enemies and broken panels spurting electricity.
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The legendary rock band Led Zeppelin won a major copyright battle on Monday over claims that parts of their signature song "Stairway to Heaven" were stolen.
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Past a large iron gate, a nearly mile-long driveway leads through the vineyards, gardens and orchards to the home's stone stairway and double entry doors.
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The living room has a massive fireplace and a stone stairway with an ornate forged-iron railing that leads to the bedrooms on the second floor.
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The protester in white manages to flee, bounding up a nearby stairway, and the officer and a colleague pin the two in black to the ground.
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Straylight visitors enter through a stairway art installation (by Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe) with harsh fluorescent lighting, fictional pharmaceuticals and videos of zombies doing yoga.
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Every so often, they convene and scheme on the theater's foyer stairway, which has been scattered with women's shoes, a conceit seemingly borrowed from the production.
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The stairway leading into the chamber was flanked by two panels depicting the same scene: Hathor, the goddess of the underworld, welcoming Seti into her domain.
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He and I and a few friends fabricated a circular stairway for the bin, hung ropes to serve as a banister, and added a second floor.
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A curving stairway from the living room leads to a partial second floor with a 35-square-foot master suite opening to a private outdoor deck.
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" An Upper West Side blogger's account of the man who interpreted "turn here" to mean onto a stairway in Riverside Park was headlined "GPS, Brain Fail Driver.
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I wish they could all be lined up along the Downton stairway and thanked, one by one, with a handshake and a specially designed Edwardian swag bag.
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Naturally, after making the supremely embarrassing move, the first thing the Uber driver did was blame Uber's navigation system for leading the car down the pedestrian stairway.
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Before the address, dozens of House Democratic women — all sporting suffragist white — packed onto a stairway in the Capitol for their annual State of the Union photo.
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But they denied that they had copied the arpeggios in "Stairway to Heaven" from "Taurus", a similar-sounding song by Spirit, who once supported them on tour.
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But the bigger disappointment for the Zeppelin faithful at large may turn out to be what the rock legend said about how "Stairway" originally came to be.
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" The attorney brought up statements from bassist John Paul Jones, who'd said Page and Plant returned from their time at Bryn-Mwar with the beginnings of "Stairway.
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When the family spend New Year's Eve at the country estate of friends, as midnight approaches Cleo is ushered down a stairway to join the carousing servants.
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"Taurus"' repeatedly hits the same high notes; in contrast, Mr Page's ringing and moving notes on the high-E string dominate the sound of "Stairway"'s opening.
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Then ship them to Vegas on the truck, where it will be installed, hopefully by July 1, along with a stairway leading to the top of it.
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Using three ultra-graphic patterns from Voutsa, she created a candy-colored "stairway to heaven" that we honestly can't decide if we'd rather live in or eat.
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Meanwhile, changing the shape of the rounded stairway at the back to a square one would provide further space, for 14 more passengers plus two food trolleys.
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"The trial and appeal process has been a long climb up the Stairway to Heaven," Judge Margaret McKeown wrote in the 73-page decision for the court.
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Sorely missing are Carpenter's moderation and patience, the restraint that turned simple shots of a darkened stairway and a hushed, leaf-lined street into dread-filled spaces.
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Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown has said the two exits, a stairway to the galley and an escape hatch, may have both been blocked by fire.
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Likewise, Florence Welch's wailing chasm of a voice and her knack for writing fire songs about pagan rituals makes her a prime candidate for the "Stairway" crown.
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To the right of the door was a stairway that went up to an open breezeway with bucket chairs where guests could stop to read or relax.
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The crowd grew to more than 120 people, and when Fox News set up a live shot during O'Rourke's speech, attendees shushed the reporter from a stairway.
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Taken collectively, these robots travel along simple paths, balance themselves actively, climb a simple stairway, run fast (13.1 mph), run with several gaits and do rudimentary gymnastic maneuvers.
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McCain, who is in a tough re-election race, made the comments after reporters chased him down a marble stairway and into a hallway of the U.S. Capitol.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Opposition legislators demanding paperwork needed to help activate a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro chained themselves on Thursday to a stairway of Venezuela's election board.
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As such, I'll have to find a workaround, or manually adjust the timings throughout the year if I want optimal light and privacy control in my stairway window.
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Climb 561 steps up Petar Kruzic Stairway to the 9203th-century Trsat Castle on a bluff at the edge of the Rjecina River, for which Rijeka is named.
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The first of its kind was "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You", the second track on their debut album—which, like "Stairway to Heaven", also attracted claims of plagiarism.
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When Zeppelin released their untitled fourth album in 1971, "Stairway" went on to become a megahit, despite its length (just over eight minutes), multipart structure and ponderous lyrics.
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When at last you dare to leave the restroom you hear footsteps on a stairway—but it is only a young woman in jeans, a stranger to you.
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You should have said you were going to build a stairway to heaven or an escalator to Mars that you were going to make the Martians pay for.
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Related: Miniature Weed Worlds Blend Tiny Toys and Stoner Humor Artist Dedicates a Flaming Stairway to Heaven to His Grandma Watch a 100,000-Firework War Between Two Churches
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In 2018, museums in Vienna will mount a yearlong series of exhibitions and events to mark the centennial: "Stairway to Klimt" begins at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum on Feb.
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In the hallway outside the office, a bookshelf slides to reveal a hidden stairway down to a 900-square-foot children's bedroom with three sets of bunk beds.
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All four traveled at least 400 feet, topped by Austin's first blast, which hit the stairway above the Yankee bullpen leading to the main concourse in the fourth.
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The 10,000-square-foot (929-sq-m) building lacked sprinklers or smoke detectors, and wooden pallets partially formed a makeshift stairway between first and second floors, officials said.
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"The appellate court in the 'Stairway' case has the chance to provide more clarity," Professor Fishman said, "on which kinds of musical borrowing are permissible and which aren't."
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It was overwhelming to see this Serena, in her simple Sunday dress and hat, faltering as she went down a stairway, signing the lament with anguish and anger.
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A stairway descends from the foyer to the main level, where there is a living-and-dining area that has a wood-burning fireplace with a marble surround.
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A group of five blocked the stairway down to the bar's basement speakeasy, snapping selfies with a taped-up, life-size photograph of Russian President Vladimir Putin's head.
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With a set centered around the theme of "Stairway to Heaven," they also did a cover of Led Zeppelin's eponymous 1971 hit, which was met with overwhelming applause.
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Gerald Burnett says he was sitting on the stairs drinking coffee one morning at his garden-style apartment building in Thornton when Scott Ostrem came down the outdoor stairway.
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Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant and Jimmy Page face a June 14 trial over whether they stole opening chords for their 1971 song "Stairway to Heaven" from a 1967 instrumental.
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Hitman 2 is more restrictive than say, Prey, since you do need to kill your targets (and not just break the game by building a GLOO stairway to heaven).
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Initial investigations showed the fire, which broke out in the stairway of the multi-story Takshashila Arcade building, was caused by a short circuit, according to local media reports.
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There are also some features you're not meant to see, like a secret stairway hidden behind a bookcase that leads to the bedrooms on the mega-home's upper level.
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However, Plant wouldn't perform "Stairway to Heaven" again until the band's reunion tour in 2007, and even then he insisted it be in the middle of the set list.
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"Sprinting up a steep concrete stairway, we burst through a portal and were stunned by a green flash," he wrote in his memoir, "My Life With the Pros" (1989).
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The "Stairway to Heaven" hiking trail is owned by the City and County of Honolulu and reserved for use by the Board of Water Supply — and for good reason.
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The 21977th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a jury verdict that found that "Stairway to Heaven" did not infringe on the 21960 song "Taurus" by the rock band Spirit.
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Out back, a stairway to the ocean below leads to the property's most unique feature: a private beach and tide pool that fills up with water, sometimes even sharks.
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Mostly the area was piled-up concrete chunks, building blocks and contorted reinforcing rods, with an intact piece of roof or upper floor here, a stairway to nowhere there.
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Grime-streaked floodwater nearly slapped the 10-foot ceilings of the lower of the building's two chambers, lurching up a winding stairway and foreclosing access to the lobby below.
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Jurors found that Led Zeppelin's lead singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page did not steal the opening to "Stairway" from Spirit's instrumental "Taurus," which was penned in 1967.
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As previously reported by Insider, not everyone is happy about the large numbers of tourists stopping to pose for pictures on a stairway that many Bronx locals use daily.
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That allowed fire to shoot out of the kitchen and into the stairwell and the smoke to spread through the stairway of the five-story apartment building, he said.
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The video shows Kenneka Jenkins appearing to be under the influence of something ... she's running into walls, she slams into a stairway railing and has no sense of balance.
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On the other side of the street, only part of a stairway and what appears to be the first floor of what reporters were told was a townhouse is standing.
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When the family spend New Year's Eve at the country estate of friends, as midnight approaches Cleo is ushered down a stairway to a basement to join the carousing servants.
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A trial is needed to determine if Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" copies its opening notes from a song performed by the rock band Spirit, a federal judge has ruled.
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There is a stairway at the museum named after the couple who are also avid collectors of art from blue-chip names like Jeff Koons, Christopher Wool, and Ed Ruscha.
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"We saw one group of puppies in a cupboard under a stairway, so the only time they saw the light of day was when someone opened the door," she says.
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Leave aside for a moment that "Stairway" launches into an entirely different 12-string-guitar midsection ("And it makes me wonder", sings Mr Plant) that accounts for half the song.
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The 10,000-square-foot (900-square-metre) building lacked sprinklers and smoke detectors, and wooden pallets partially formed a makeshift stairway between the first and second floors, officials have said.
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The apartment's stairway acted like a chimney as the fire burst from the apartment, feeding the flames and allowing them to spread throughout the building, FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said.
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" Led Zeppelin's attorneys on Friday brought in music expert Lawrence Ferrara, who testified that the only similarity between "Taurus" and "Stairway to Heaven" was a "descending chromatic minor line progression.
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The Vessel, a shiny, copper-colored stairway to nowhere by Thomas Heatherwick that has proved more popular with selfie-takers than architecture critics, was added along the Shed's north side.
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Who can forget the spiral stairway of "To See the Sky" included in her 2015 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, called Yoko Ono: One Woman Show 1960–1971?
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The two wings are connected by a central hallway fronted by a two-story glass wall overlooking the courtyard, as well as by a wooden stairway suspended on metal cables.
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Two bedrooms and a bathroom are positioned along a hallway extending from the master suite; a fourth bedroom, with a bathroom and a kitchenette, is reached from a rear stairway.
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Inside Blox, an unexpected window appears halfway up a stairway leading from a foyer to offices on the second floor, while neatly framing a view into the in-house gym.
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The place the computer had indicated was nearby, on a busy stairway, directly beneath a sign that said " Do Not Sit On Stairs "—the very spot I often choose myself!
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This is the Met Gala, people — the red carpet of all red carpets, a marble arched runway of fashion that ends in a stairway to couture Heaven (at least this year).
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THE smell of incense fills the narrow stairway of the Yue-Shan Society building, a social club for people with roots in Panyu, part of Guangzhou, a city in southern China.
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And on Sunday, an anonymous Chinese official told the South China Morning Post that it was in fact Washington's decision to have Obama disembark Air Force One via his own stairway.
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If this is not sufficiently lurid, Azzam accompanies these works with boulders and debris strewn throughout the gallery, leading to an installation of rubble that filters down a large industrial stairway.
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A Los Angeles jury has ruled that Led Zeppelin didn't copy a riff from Spirit's 1968 instrumental "Taurus" for their own 1971 hit "Stairway to Heaven," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Skidmore has said Page may have been inspired to write "Stairway" after hearing Spirit perform "Taurus" while the bands toured together in 1968 and 1969, but that Wolfe never received credit.
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The jury found that, although Mr. Page and Mr. Plant had access to "Taurus" before the release of "Stairway to Heaven," the two songs' original elements did not contain enough similarities.
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The apartment's stairway acted "like a chimney" as the fire burst from the apartment, feeding the flames and allowing them to spread throughout the building, FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said Friday.
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The floors are connected by a broad stairway and an elevator, and each floor has space and fittings for kitchens; the palazzo has been granted hard-to-get permission for subdividing.
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A second stairway in the kitchen, originally intended for servants, was also removed to create a light well that, in combination with a rooftop skylight, illuminates the center of the house.
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His stairway installations were one of the highlights of the last Whitney Biennial in the Breuer building, and he always brings a few bears on stage with him during musical performances.
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And when moments like "Mountain of the Sun" show that they don't lack talent, just authenticity, we can only hope that the group will eventually find their own stairway to heaven.
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As I moved upstairs I took in fleeting glimpses of Queen's Cross's meandering streets through stairway windows and got panoramic vantages of the entire space from the intimate second floor choir.
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MALÉ, Maldives — A liberal blogger who wrote satirical critiques of the Maldivian government and the spread of radical Islam died Sunday after being stabbed in the stairway of his apartment building.
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Other points made in the lengthy article: —McCarthy missed team meetings to have massages in his office, sneaking the therapist up the back stairway as meetings took place in the building.
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A fire dept spokesman said if the fire started anywhere near the stairway -- which was made of cargo pallets -- it would have gone up immediately and trapped people on the second floor.
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Security camera footage shows the young man's car striking a sedan that had cut across its lane, then sliding into the stairway entrance of a building, on which two people are standing.
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" The lawsuit comes months after Led Zeppelin were victorious in a trial with Spirit's Mark Andes, who alleged that they ripped off the opening riff of the rock classic "Stairway to Heaven.
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Page said he listened to "Taurus" for the first time only after he was made aware of comparisons being made on the internet between "Stairway to Heaven" and "Taurus" in recent years.
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Some 22m of Led Zeppelin's page views have been for "Stairway to Heaven", a riff so hackneyed that it was banned in a guitar shop in "Wayne's World", a film from 1992.
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But the judge said a jury could find "substantial" similarity between the first two minutes of "Stairway" and "Taurus," which he called "arguably the most recognizable and important segments" of the songs.
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Up the marble stairway, past the framed copies of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, the walls of the second floor were covered with documents in narrow black frames.
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But the image that will surely prove more memorable—of Mr Obama walking down the metal stairway from the undercarriage of Air Force One—was not an accurate reflection of it either.
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From time to time over the years, Mr. Patten would enter a clandestine passageway in his bedroom and emerge at the foot of a stairway that led to the theater's topmost balcony.
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A narrow stairway off the living room leads up to a small bedroom, which is anchored by the bed, with its teal Ponti headboard, also purchased from Yashar all those years ago.
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But none were ever replaced, and when I visited the structure on a rainy day in October 2017, the level of decay was extraordinary, with water pouring through leaks in the stairway.
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Guests at the new Equinox Hotel, Hudson Yards can try snapping the perfect shot while scaling the Thomas Heatherwick — designed stairway to nowhere on a 45-minute Vessel Run (April to October).
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Otherwise, it's the floor, or perhaps a bathroom, or on a stairway fashioned from two-by-fours; if an inmate falls off one of those steps, he takes everyone below with him.
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I collected them like valuable jewels, finding them the perfect frames and arranging them in a gallery wall in the stairway of my home, reminders of where and who I came from.
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One photo, shared on Sunday, saw Shields standing at the base of Valentines Resort's wooden stairway to the sand — posing while showing off her toned abs in a black-and-white Flagpole bikini.
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Plus, pausing in the center of stairway to gesticulate wildly while wielding a selfie stick is an obvious nuisance, and New Yorkers of any borough aren't known for their patience with such tomfoolery.
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The dispute focused on a passageway of gates and a stairway leading to a hall that had been closed by Israeli authorities for years and was reopened on Friday by Muslim religious officials.
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A steep stairway leads to the cramped basement, half of which once served as a drying room, Mr. Huang said as he walked into the room, which is still encased with metal panels.
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The wallet dropped on a street corner, the elderly man bursting into his rendition of "Forever and Ever" on that snowy stairway, the date that ended badly in front of the convenience store.
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It's been 45 years since Page, Plant and John Paul Jones hastily summoned the three-act "Stairway to Heaven" by a roaring fire at a remote cottage in Wales, according to rock lore.
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"Stairway to Heaven" opens with a finger-picked arpeggio on acoustic guitar in the key of A minor, a descending chromatic scale that is common in all types of compositions — not just rock.
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It's easy to hear the similarities in chord structure between "Taurus" and "Stairway"'s openings: both riffs have the same harmonically defining, descending notes on the guitar's D-string at the same tempo.
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Heavens crack open with light as Thundercat's extended solo on "Askim" keeps the choirs euphoric, eventually dimming to a supper-club candlelit intimacy where Washington's sax then rebuilds its stairway to the stars.
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As part of "Suspending Time," a dance series presented with the arts organization Pentacle, the choreographer Zvi Gotheiner offers "Stairway," a 20-minute site-specific work taking place along the museum's spiral staircase.
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In the afternoon, young girls scamper down the central stairway after their drum lessons, and on a recent afternoon, older women waited in line to register to volunteer during the group's Carnival performance.
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Presuming our president doesn't have a visit from an angel who tells him that instead of building a wall he should concentrate on building — oh, I don't know, a stairway to the stars?
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"I found a solution," he added, motioning to the retractable automated stairway that connects a 9,400-square-foot open-air gated tropical garden and parking area with the three-bedroom house above it.
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The second floor has two bedrooms, as well as a lounge area with a wooden stairway leading to the home's top level and a door to a glass-walled terrace overlooking the lake.
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Aussies are herding dogs and need a job of some kind, and she loved hoisting me up, stairs — actually, any nearby stairway — heaving her whole body for us both through short, rolling bounds.
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Beyond the pool is a wall-mounted fountain, or búcaro, and a stairway ascending to a rooftop terrace with views of the city and the Agua, Fuego and Acatenango volcanoes, Mr. Wilson said.
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That system would certainly have spared Led Zeppelin, which has been embroiled in a copyright suit over "Stairway to Heaven" with the trustee of the singer of Spirit, a 1960s psychedelic rock band.
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Most Boeing 777 and 787 airliners have a secret stairway that leads to a tiny set of windowless bedrooms for the cabin crew — including hidden bedrooms for pilots— that few people know exist.
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"I'm thinking someone had a heart attack," Marcia Lehmann, who was aboard the ship with her husband Robert, said to Palm Beach Post before adding she saw crowds of people gathered around a stairway.
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What judge Gary Klausner had to decide was whether the allegedly purloined sequence is enough to give Mr Wolfe's estate a plausible claim on even part of "Stairway"'s royalties (Wolfe died in 1997).
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Across the road from the Cave of the Devil, a narrow stairway led to the ruins, where a broad pyramid base provides views of downtown skyscrapers, majestic boulevards and planes landing at the airport.
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STAIRWAY TO STARDOM A paean to the "wildly passionate but questionably talented," this show takes its title from a 2211s public-access TV talent show made on the cheap with performers of dubious stock.
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One illustration neglects to include the sleep chamber, lavatory, and hallway; another gets the number of doors per hexagon wrong; and basically all of the renderings screw up the placement of the spiral stairway.
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A small courtyard separates the mall from the development's centerpiece, a sculpture for now known as "Vessel," a $200 million gleaming stairway to nowhere that you need a free, but timed, ticket to climb.
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"Stairway to Stardom" is a big, flashing target: This 1980s public-access cult phenomenon featured a wide variety of people strutting their stuff with a blithe confidence unsupported by any evidence of traditional talent.
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As we chatted on the landing of a central stairway, back in 2017, I kept track of the number of women who came by to hug him and leave lipstick kisses on his cheeks.
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The entrance to the apartment is at the top of a curved mahogany stairway that opens onto a well-preserved late-Baroque landing with travertine floors and hand-stenciled walls that resemble flocked wallpaper.
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Mr. Wolfe, a singer, songwriter and guitarist nicknamed Randy California by his friend Jimi Hendrix, had long disapproved of "Stairway to Heaven," calling it "a rip-off" in an interview shortly before he died.
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The assault took place on a stairway leading down to the Carrousel du Louvre, an underground shopping mall that lies between the subway station closest to the museum and one of the museum's entrances.
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Frum compared the conflict between two types of visitors the narrow stairway attracts to the Israel/Palestine conflict, in that both groups were entirely unwilling to even recognize, never mind accommodate, each other's interests.
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In design renderings, Hyundai creators have imagined a New York taxi arching its legs forward to drop off a wheelchair-bound passenger at the top of a stairway that he would otherwise have trouble reaching.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Influenced by the M.C. Escher-esque designs of Indian stepwells, British starchitect Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled plans for a giant stairway to nowhere in New York City's Hudson Yards.
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He alleged that, as the two bands had occasionally toured together between 1968 and 1970, Page would have been aware of "Taurus" and subsequently copied it when writing "Stairway To Heaven" a short time later.
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According to Rolling Stone, Skidmore's lawyer, Francis Malofiy, pointedly referred to Page as the "alleged songwriter" behind "Stairway to Heaven," and dismissed Led Zeppelin as "session musicians playing other people's music" in his closing argument.
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"Can you believe that the Chinese would not give Obama the proper stairway to get off his plane - fight on tarmac!" he tweeted with a link to a New York Post article about the incident.
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A stairway that led down to a passage under the street eventually got me to my destination, late to my meeting with Gleb Kryuchkov, chief concierge at the hotel, where rooms are decidedly not frugal.
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A magnificent frigatebird is perched on a sprinkler with its red balloon of a chest puffed out; a stairway was used as a timeline for bird evolution, from fish to reptiles to the feathered vertebrates.
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But flames moved so quickly through the 75-foot vessel that it blocked a narrow stairway and an escape hatch leading to the upper decks, giving those below virtually no chance of escaping, authorities said.
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Its delicate rows of T-shaped vines, with grapes ranging from Roussanne and Voignier to Syrah, run to the edge of the property's tasting room, and there a trellised stairway winds down toward the creek.
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A lawsuit centered around the legendary Led Zeppelin tune "Stairway to Heaven" kicks off Tuesday in a Los Angeles courtroom and the case is expected to be closely watched by both fans and music industry insiders.
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Castro was also on hand at the airport to bid Obama farewell, giving him an enthusiastic handshake at the bottom of Air Force One's stairway and then exchanging waves once the U.S. leader reached the top.
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Yet compared to what "Stairway" has in addition to "Taurus", it might more closely fit what American copyright law calls fair use: if something is "transformative" of borrowed material, the case for fair use is stronger.
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The Hound shoved a dagger through his brother's head, but when that wasn't enough to kill him, he charged at him like a bull, sending the Cleganes off the stairway and into their fiery deaths below.
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We did this for our fun first, and we skipped "Stairway to Heaven," and "Kashmir" and "Black Dog," and then realized that first off, they're pretty great songs, and secondly, people really want to hear 'em.
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Fin-de-siècle glamour runs from the top floor Cardinal's Suite down the leopard carpeted spiral stairway to Le Bar where tufted velvet chairs, vintage barware and an outré vibe attract a nightly crowd of locals.
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As we climbed a stone stairway, a group of Gustu people caught up with us, and at the top we found the restaurant, flanked by an MTV Fashion Jeans Boutique and a bleak-looking hamburger joint.
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A doorway with red velvet curtains leads backstage to three sets of sculptures: mops for cleaning up blood; office chairs seemingly gouged by bullets; and elegant ladders, a means of escape or a stairway to heaven.
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He can speak at times like a sort of Midwestern oracle with a sweet tooth, by turns invoking Aristotle and Aquinas, raising the radio volume for "Stairway to Heaven" and holding forth on the majesty of dessert.
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While the flight of stairs has been a welcome addition for the community in Tom Riley Park, the city is now threatening to tear down the stairway because it was not built according to the city's regulations.
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" Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, in testimony earlier in the seven-day copyright infringement trial, said the riff was commonly used long before its appearance on American band Spirit's 1967 song "Taurus" and before "Stairway to Heaven.
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Led Zeppelin did not steal the opening riff of its rock anthem "Stairway to Heaven," a federal jury ruled here, giving the band a victory in a copyright case in which millions of dollars were at stake.
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The suit says that Mr. Page and Mr. Plant copied "Taurus" for the distinctive acoustic guitar part that opens "Stairway," and that the men had heard Spirit's song when the two bands crossed paths on the road.
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It took place in the Barclays Center, against a gigantic set that was part stairway to heaven, part Roman Colosseum, part "Chicago" (the Bob Fosse version) and part "Laugh-In," with a reflecting pool in the middle.
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It features images of the show's stars -- Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, Misha Collins and Alexander Calvert -- against a backdrop of fire, angel wings, an anti-demon possession symbol and a stairway that appears to lead to heaven.
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I had taken up Ping-Pong during college, and in my 30s dove in more deeply, climbing the long stairway up to a table tennis center in Westfield, N.J., where I watched Olympic hopefuls and took lessons.
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The 6-year-old – who suffers from cystic fibrosis – got his first toy garbage truck as a gift four years ago, and became obsessed with watching them from the stairway of his family home in Rancho Cordova, California.
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The lawsuit accusing Led Zeppelin of taking a descending chord progression in "Stairway" from the instrumental "Taurus" was brought in 2014 by Michael Skidmore, a trustee for the estate of the late Spirit guitarist and songwriter Randy Wolfe.
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The song's legal journey began in May 2014, when Michael Skidmore — a trustee representing the estate of former Spirit guitarist Randy Wolfe — filed a suit claiming Led Zeppelin had knocked off "Taurus" for the "Stairway to Heaven" introduction.
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U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner said in April that a jury might find "substantial" similarity between the first two minutes of "Stairway" and "Taurus," and to let it decide whether Plant and Page were liable for copyright infringement.
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Image 26 of 133 RAFAH BORDER CROSSING, Gaza Strip – Just after daybreak, Hamed al-Shaer came down the narrow stairway of his family&aposs home in southern Gaza pulling a black suitcase and said goodbye to his mother.
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"People start adding vision prematurely and they rely on it too much," Kim tells Axios, when it's best suited for big-picture planning, like registering where a stairway begins and knowing when to turn to avoid a wall.
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She said that she had not left home in years other than to visit the hospital, and that to do so she needed one son to carry her down the narrow stairway and another to carry her oxygen filter.
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After my first virgin venture up the narrow stairway into Dave's world, there was seldom a summer day I wouldn't ride my bike to the store and spend hours sifting through their endless rectangular white cardboard boxes of comics.
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"Stairway to Heaven" is a track on Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth studio album, often referred to as "Led Zeppelin IV." The case is Skidmore v Led Zeppelin et al, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, No. 15-03462.
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Nineteen of the dead were found piled on top of each other on a stairway from the third floor to a door leading to the roof, with some early reports suggesting it could not be opened from the inside.
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It was off the side of that dance floor, past a swing the size of a dining-room table, and up a narrow stairway where I found the part of Berghain most incongruous of all: the ice-cream parlor.
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Two of the band's founders, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, are expected to appear in a Los Angeles court on Tuesday to defend themselves against a lawsuit claiming that parts of their 1971 classic "Stairway to Heaven" were copied.
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The house's effect on you accumulates over the course of the tour as you notice things like the small stairway in the living room, accessible via sliding glass panels, that reaches down to a point just above the stream.
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They had been startled by the sound of gunfire and then the awful crash of breaking glass as Mr. Keyes, mortally wounded, fell out his window and through a stairway skylight in a low-rise extension of the hotel.
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What struck me most about the bedroom was how small it was, and that the doors on either side of it would originally have opened out to a stairway next to the bed and to the guest room opposite.
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By colliding TLC's "No Scrubs" with Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" and basking in the composite's zany eccentricity, Mouth Moods definitely feels like a stronger development in the series; Cicierega's software and sampling skills have each become more refined.
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At one extraordinary moment, Smith began climbing up the steps of the major scale, as if he had found a stairway to the light; but then he let his tone crack, reverted to halting chromatic steps, and fell silent.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On Thursday, Ted Loos of The New York Times reported that a "$150 Million Stairway to Nowhere" has been proposed as supersized work of public art for the Hudson Yards on Manhattan's Far West Side.
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A flat, misshapen clay lozenge, covered in abraded red pigment, is affixed to the left of the stairway/path's base, while three drops of white paint in the middle of the lower right quadrant balance out the clay object's weight.
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"An innocent man was shot and killed due to the reckless actions of a police officer and then, after the shooting, a police officer did nothing to help him as Akai lay bleeding to death on a cold stairway," she said.
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According to a St. Louis County Police Department probable cause statement obtained by PEOPLE, Neal walked away and was heading up a stairway when Clement, carrying a gun in his hand, came out of the apartment and yelled at him.
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The fire started early in the afternoon, when four people were inside, with flames climbing up the massive doors of the Roman Catholic church before spreading to stained glass above and to a nearby stairway, a fire brigade spokesman said.
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For example, in another prominent case, Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page face a June 14 trial in Los Angeles over whether they stole opening chords for their 1971 classic "Stairway to Heaven" from a 1967 instrumental.
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Walk up the beautiful curved stairway (a relic from when Barney's department store inhabited the space), and "Le Corps Sonore" (2017), a site-specific installation by Eliane Radigue, Laetitia Sonami, and Bob Bielcki, accompanies you, designed to interact with your movements.
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Peter Anderson, an attorney for the band, repeated to jurors his argument that the riff that opens "Stairway to Heaven," a chromatic descending arpeggiated line that misses the 'E' note, was in the public domain and had been widely used.
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Sometimes when we pass each other on the stairway or in the kitchen I reach out and give his butt a little caress because I know it will make him laugh or smile — after all, we're getting on in years.
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In the picture's striking opening, an army of women march into the multi-level home and workshop of the British couture designer Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day Lewis), ascending the stairway and walking single-file to the sewing tables and machines.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A musical riff Led Zeppelin is accused of stealing from another band for its 1971 classic "Stairway to Heaven" was not unique, singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page's attorney said at a civil trial on Tuesday.
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When Mr. Ghesquière noted that the museum was across the road from a favela, and the people who lived in the slum would be able to see the show from a stairway and their balconies, it was hard not to grimace.
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"Stairway to Heaven" is considered by many to be one of rock'n'roll's greatest hits, but Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin told the Los Angeles Times in 1988 that the song didn't hold up and that he wouldn't perform it on tour.
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Mexico City-based photojournalist Adriana Zehbrauskas, who reports regularly for The New York Times, posted a photo of her office on Facebook showing a room strewn with fallen paintings and books, and one showing her neighbors fleeing down a crumbling stairway.
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CreditCreditAndrew Testa for The New York Times PETTIGO, Ireland — Along the winding open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, Cuilcagh Mountain trail rises into a steep wooden stairway that comes to a halt at a lookout deck.
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"Since U Been Gone" is much shorter than "Stairway" but it does that song's quiet-to-loud thing not once but three times in as many minutes, making it numerically superior to Zeppelin's one piddly climax in an eight-minute song.
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He acts as a sort of aggrieved emissary from a comic underclass, musing about a new public-housing-themed cologne called Back Stairway and complaining about Puerto Rican neighbors, with their music and the smells of their garlic and adobo.
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People who had lived in the warehouse or visited described a place rife with fire hazards — a boarded-up upstairs exit, a cobbled-together stairway made partly of wooden pallets, propane tanks used to heat water, and piles of flammable debris.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jurors in Led Zeppelin's copyright infringement trial were due to begin a second day of deliberations on Thursday to decide whether the English rock band ripped off the opening chords of "Stairway to Heaven" from an American group.
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The former Victoria's Secret angel enlisted the help of legendary designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard to help her choose pieces that fueled her style in every room, such as a blue tile-clad stairway, a vintage Persian carpet, and an ornate gold Egyptian chandelier.
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But nothing compares to Mimi's unparalleled ability to turn even the most mundane everyday objects into the perfect high fashion prop; case in point, this stairway banister that she's wrapped herself around while still making Tyra proud and totally finding her light.
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A symmetrically composed, funkily rendered abstract landscape, the composition is bisected by a striped path or stairway, which is flanked on either side by looping lines that appear to be vestigial tracings of a scrubbed-off image, the contours of an absence.
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Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven': Spirit's 'Taurus': "While it is true that a descending chromatic four-chord progression is a common convention that abounds in the music industry, the similarities here transcend this core structure," Judge Gary Klausner wrote in his judgment.
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" Page, 72, took the witness stand on the second day of the trial in federal court in Los Angeles, where the British band is accused of lifting the opening chords for "Stairway to Heaven" from American band Spirit's 1967 instrumental song "Taurus.
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Architects at Tate Harmer used what they're calling a "ship in a bottle" approach to build a stairway inside, squeezing the staircases elements into the room piece by piece and assembling them into a freestanding structure that doesn't touch the walls at all.
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Virtually every pair of hands that has ever picked up an acoustic guitar has made a go at picking them out, such a cliché that the guitar shop in "Wayne's World", a 1992 comedy movie, featured a forbidding sign: "No Stairway to Heaven".
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Elie Nadelman's "The Four Seasons" (1912) dance in terra-cotta on the stairway leading to the fourth floor, while hanging on the second is Picasso's "Le Tricorne" (1919) curtain, which was displayed at the Four Seasons restaurant for more than 50 years.
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LOS ANGELES, June 23 (Reuters) - Jurors in Led Zeppelin's copyright infringement trial were due to begin a second day of deliberations on Thursday to decide whether the English rock band ripped off the opening chords of "Stairway to Heaven" from an American group.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page have made $58.5 million over the years from "Stairway to Heaven," an expert testified in Los Angeles on Friday in a trial over alleged copyright infringement by the band's signature song.
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A gregarious guide named Daryl recently led a gaggle of tourists (and me) on such a tour, one that started walking up an outdoor stairway, past a set of recreated outhouses and ultimately through a peeling hallway and into a cramped apartment.
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The bottom floor, which is reached by an interior stairway and stone steps that lead down the hill from the entrance, contains Mr. Rangr's office; its small open kitchen and a bathroom also make it suitable for guests or an au pair.
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A new monument to the 96 people killed in the crash was unveiled — a block of solid black granite, with 18 stairs carved into the stone, a symbol of both the stairs leading onto the plane and of a stairway to heaven.
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Some were survivors who Welles Crowther helped save, including Richard Fern, who recalled making his way down from the 84th floor to the 78th but then being unable to find a passable stairway until he heard somebody yell, 'Use the stairs over here.
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"The term 'slips, trips and falls' is a major misstatement of the full complexity of all possible missteps," said Jake Pauls, a building safety consultant in Toronto, Canada, and Silver Spring, Maryland, who researches stairway safety and usability but wasn't involved in the study.
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"We are grateful for the jury's conscientious service and pleased that it has ruled in our favor, putting to rest questions about the origins of 'Stairway to Heaven' and confirming what we have known for 45 years," Page and Plant said in a joint statement.
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The suit claims that the arpeggiated guitar introduction to "Stairway to Heaven" -- widely viewed as one of the all-time great classic rock songs since its release in 1971 -- infringed on the copyright of the instrumental "Taurus," released on Spirit's debut album three years earlier.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The guitar riff Led Zeppelin used in the 1971 classic "Stairway to Heaven" differed substantially from one the English band was accused of stealing from the U.S. group Spirit, a jury found on Thursday in a copyright infringement trial in Los Angeles.
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A judge in Los Angeles is not sure: he has ruled that the opening of "Stairway" sounds enough like "Taurus" by the band Spirit, and that that chord sequence is distinctive enough that Messrs Plant and Page will now face a suit for copyright infringement.
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It contends that the Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and Robert Plant had lifted substantial portions of the Spirit song "Taurus," from 5.33, for the beginning of "Stairway to Heaven," which was released in 1971 and, by some estimates, has earned more than $500 million.
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At the trial, which began Tuesday, lawyers for Led Zeppelin are expected to argue that any similarities between "Stairway to Heaven" and "Taurus" are because of generic musical patterns that cannot be copyrighted, like a descending chord progression that is common to both pieces.
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At Unstad Arctic Surf, the decorative vibe is decidedly hang-loose and tropical, with Polynesian carvings on the walls, a souvenir Waikiki license plate and a ukulele in a stairway and a mannequin wearing a grass skirt and coconut bra in the dining room.
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The Americans were willing to use a Chinese stairway, this official said, but the Chinese insisted that the stairs be taken to the plane by a local driver, who the Americans said could not communicate with the White House team about even the simplest tasks.
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Just before noon, Governor Andrew Cuomo, who in recent months had made its completion an obsession and a point of pride, spoke briefly, and then the barricades came down, a cheer went up, and the crowd, phones aloft, streamed onto an escalator and a stairway.
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This fall Osuna and a stream of fellow visitors have flocked to the stairway, known as a "step street," to see the real-life backdrop to a memorable scene in "Joker," the hit movie that tells the backstory of Batman's deranged foe, the Joker.
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Though we could list only songs like "Satisfaction" by The Rolling Stones, "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin, and quite literally any song by The Beatles, these are some other songs you should add to your must-listen-to-playlist ASAP.
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Originally believed to have been a portion of a temple stairway at the city's civic-ceremonial center, the stone had continuously served a ritual purpose as evidenced by objects left at its feet: charcoal, broken ceramics for incense-burning, and remnants of a human skull.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Led Zeppelin prevailed on Thursday in a copyright lawsuit brought against surviving members of the British rock band, as jurors rejected a claim that the opening guitar passage from its classic hit "Stairway to Heaven" was lifted from the lesser-known U.S. band Spirit.
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The cops came by and sneaked their way up the dark stairway of our home in the San Fernando Valley, guns drawn, and when I walked out from my bedroom, all groggy and confused, they yelled at me to put my hands where they could see them.
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The researchers recommended strategies to prevent TBI in children around the home, including removing tripping hazards such as area rugs; improving lighting; avoiding hard surface playgrounds; increasing use of home safety devices such as stair gates; and using stairway handrails without sharp edges, among other strategies.
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Their soundtracks evoke times and people and places; the first chords of a song like Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" might bring back memories of riding in my dad's truck, while hearing Limp Bizkit's "Break Stuff" reminds me of being powerless and 12 and watching TRL.
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