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And then I found that actors and actresses actually take their cues from the floor, so it turned out that these sorts of sign systems began to make sense.
But it's not just you, it's these seats you're sitting on, the carpet, the glue that holds the carpet to the floor, the paint on the walls, the trees outside, everything around you is producing an odour, and it's a really complex world that the mosquito has to fly through, and it has to find you within that really complex world.
The chalk itself's composed by plankton which has fallen down from the sea surface onto the sea floor, so that 90 percent of the sediment here is skeleton of living stuff, and then you have that millimeter-thick red layer, and then you have black rock.
Every single one of us will have our life interrupted, whether it's by the rip cord of a diagnosis or some other kind of heartbreak or trauma that brings us to the floor.
Sometimes, all it takes is the ingenuity of a handmade game of Scrabble or finding that stripped-down kind of meaning in the love of family and a night on the ballroom dance floor, or that radical, dangerous hope that I'm guessing will someday lead a teenage girl terrified of bugs to go camping.
But even with all that water, the Romans had to construct miniature boats with special flat bottoms that wouldn’t scrape the Colosseum floor.
He's coached five Olympians, and the man's office is lined from floor to ceiling with All America certificates of all these athletes he's coached.
The secret to their success lies under the forest floor, where vast root systems support the towering trunks above.
But I didn't know that in another part of our clinic, on a different floor, there was a registration clerk who had developed a very special relationship with my patient every time he came in for an appointment.
It went through my heart and the heart of everyone on that floor.
And yet, when some psychologists interviewed hospital janitors to get a sense of what they thought their jobs were like, they encountered Mike, who told them about how he stopped mopping the floor because Mr. Jones was out of his bed getting a little exercise, trying to build up his strength, walking slowly up and down the hall.
And then there was Luke, who washed the floor in a comatose young man's room twice because the man's father, who had been keeping a vigil for six months, didn't see Luke do it the first time, and his father was angry.
A wise person knows how to improvise, as Luke did when he re-washed the floor.
And also, I genuinely discovered that I am genuinely less stressed by pirate waters than I am with a cockroach infestation that was so intense that at one point I went belowdeck, and the floor was black and it was moving.
And so I was the only girl in the team and the whole ship, so I got away without sleeping on the floor.
“We already know the recipe is on the 13th floor of the bank vault, in a safe deposit box numbered between 13 and 1300.
One setting offers protection from this radiation and an alternative energy source: the hydrothermal vents that wind across the ocean floor, covered by kilometers of seawater and bathed in complete darkness.
In 1979 I had a chance to put my footprints on the ocean floor while using this personal submersible called Jim.
Industrial trawlers and draggers are scraping the sea floor like bulldozers, taking everything in their path.
Let's start our journey on the forest floor of one of my study sites in Costa Rica.
They don't have roots that go into trunks nor to the forest floor.
And so those epiphytes are actually paying the landlord a bit of rent in exchange for being supported high above the forest floor.
It can't be repeated on any factory floor or any construction site.
It allows you to, on one city block, go up one full floor, so that it's on a continuum.
And the very fact that they worked in a provisional space meant that for Beckett, they could blow out a wall; they could do "Cherry Orchard" and blow a hole through the floor, and so forth.
And at the push of a button, it allows the artistic director to move between proscenium, thrust, and in fact, arena and traverse and flat floor, in a very quick transfiguration.
So it creates a situation like this, where you have artists who can operate within an art space that also has an amazing view on the 22nd floor, but it also has proximity that the curator can either open or close.
So is twitching along the floor in a heap.
Or it will figure out how to move faster by glitching repeatedly into the floor.
Buried on the ocean floor, the remnants of this powerful device remain in the realm of Ahti, god of water— where they grind salt for the seas to this very day.
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