Every multipack of chips you demolish will be keeping you limber.
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Our American apologies are often nothing more than linguistically limber exercises.
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If you wanted less juice, you went for a Limber Twig.
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Mr Renzi might have done more to limber up the Italian economy.
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So, as well as rekindling our friendship, we're also getting mad limber.
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It's 37 minutes of limber throwback-ish R&B and nothing more.
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Mostly I'm looking at it like physical therapy, to keep myself limber.
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He exercises, has a regular fitness regimen and does yoga to stay limber.
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When selecting her models, AnaHell prefers to work with her most limber friends.
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In more limber days, he'd won two Gold Gloves for his catlike defense.
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LIMBER UP (Him) We get up pretty early and we do some stretching.
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I'd love to limber up the fly rod and catch a few trout.
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At the moment, these limber pines appear to be charging up the slope.
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Like his ideologically limber father-in-law, he has donated to Democratic candidates.
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In his limber and leisurely fashion, Linklater is glancing at a golden age.
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Next Quavo and Offset of Migos arrive, Quavo uncharacteristically direct, Offset uncharacteristically limber.
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But to deliver the ball, they need arms that are strong — and limber.
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In Parabellum, as in its predecessors, action scenes are graceful, limber, almost balletic.
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It will be a feat of relationship gymnastics, but they both seem pretty limber.
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They work on "modulating pressure," which involves slowly opening valves to keep them limber.
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"In order to make the bed, you need to be limber," Ms. Field said.
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He does everything that you can do to make yourself stronger and more limber.
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In them, Poppo is limber and lean—a ghoul in gold or white paint.
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It would also be nice if she roped in a more limber rhythm section.
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We can only assume this his own little way to keep limber on the sidelines.
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In place of brushes, he used long, limber sticks that distanced him from the canvas.
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But Mr. de Blasio, perhaps sensing a rare opening against a limber political opponent, pounced.
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The limber technician helping us got a kick out of an American dog named Pierre.
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They were in the limber sea oats and in snake tracks swooshing up a dune.
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It's delivered by a thoroughly committed cast, led by the limber Kyle Sherman as Pete.
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Their workouts helped him get "strong, limber and injury free," he wrote in the caption.
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That debate is stirring as cabinet rivals limber up for a battle to succeed Mrs.
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And, perhaps more practically, who were these musicians helping to shape its gnarly but limber style?
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Justin Timberlake is making sure he's lean and limber for next weekend's Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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The tape as a whole is limber and stretchy, spanning all of Young Thug's finest concepts.
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By hour three, if all is going well, the floor and your joints should be limber.
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He remains limber and lively in his seventh decade, with a second wife and young children.
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To limber your sensibility, stalk the aesthetic everywhere: cracks in a sidewalk, people's ways of walking.
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My legs and abs are really sore, so I do some stretching to try to limber up.
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So, sit back and get ready for a show, or clear the dance floor and limber up.
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He would come out to the provincial tournaments to stay limber and earn a few extra quid.
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Kessler has somehow made it through two games, but his backup, Charlie Whitehurst, had better stay limber.
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So what's a 60-year-old ballet company like Alvin Ailey to do to seem limber again?
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It involves opening valves — slowly, and not necessarily all the way — just to keep them somewhat limber.
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Kids, here's how you make a 90 degree angle ... courtesy of Victoria Beckham's extremely limber and hot legs.
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To limber up, Mr Kaine dropped in on the Virginia state delegation as they breakfasted at their hotel.
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It may be possible to deliberately cultivate this kind of limber mind-set by, for example, living abroad.
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Light, slow stretching is all it takes to shake off grogginess and limber up for the day ahead.
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And so, like a genie emerging from a lamp, up pops Tully (Mackenzie Davis): youthful, limber, funny, and free.
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Time-killing duration: 2121 hours; ~223 minutes per episode Travel tip #533: It's important to stay limber during travel.
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"I felt more limber, more athletic and more under control," Syndergaard said after his spring training debut on Monday.
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Mr. Tresvant (Algee Smith, tender and limber) carries the disproportionate burdens of the lead singer, earning acclaim and resentment.
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She put down a mat, folded her long, limber legs into a lotus position, and began teaching her zillionth session.
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He puckers his face into a kiss, then opens wide into an O, trying to limber up his facial muscles.
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Curtis Walker was a kid from Harlem with a limber but straight-ahead style and an unbridled love for disco.
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Steeped in bebop, Ms. Jordan's singing is still limber and adventurous, but also marked by discretion, that increasingly elusive virtue.
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Howard also fielded ground balls and headed to the outfield to limber up with some strange-looking contortions and gyrations.
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He strolled like a boulevardier, did some slow hip grinds and, more than once, dropped to his knees in limber gratitude.
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Thanks to his leading players, however, the movie grows limber, ambiguous, and twice as interesting, and the sermon goes astray. ♦
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When I don't work out, I can tell I'm not as limber, I'm not as quick, my brain's not as sharp.
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The rapper celebrated Monday night at Delilah in WeHo with some of his besties ... including several limber dancers with pole skills.
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"It keeps you limber," Meyyappan says, conceding, however, that she herself has long given it up for a table and chairs.
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Economists debated how much Japan's slump owed to weak demand rather than economic rigidities, for example an insufficiently limber corporate sector.
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In this brave new world, like-minded states fostered transnationalism to limber up for the increased competition of a global economy.
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But I was only an hour into my hike when I noticed a woman squatting behind some limber pines near the trail.
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Here, as in much of the poetry of Danez Smith, the melancholy bone of the poem is wrapped in sly, limber humor.
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He seemed remarkably fit and limber, skipping across the stage, doing deep-knee bends and occasionally dropping to his knees to sing.
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You want to stay loose and limber, you don't want to get cold and stiffen up, especially in the breaks between rounds.
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I also got to experience some of the stretching techniques they use to become so limber, including lunges, hip openers and back stretches.
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In fact, Big Baby even showed off a few of his yoga moves right on the street -- dude's more limber than he looks!
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Foccroulle's music, couched in a limber atonal idiom, suggested those eerie moments in dreams when one becomes half aware that one is dreaming.
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The heated element, which can be turned on or off, helps to warm the muscles up and keep them limber through the massage.
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Since then, Gillis hasn't released a lot of music publicly, but when he has, it's almost exclusively been limber beats for rap experimenters.
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Igor Goldin, the director, and Antoinette DiPietropolo, the choreographer, have gone all out to showcase the talents of their limber and exuberant cast.
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Chief among these are the chilling exertions of the stunt actress Alicia Vela-Bailey, a former gymnast who portrays Diana with limber ingenuity.
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" Before I even limber up to ask why the world needs yet another graffiti book, Lurke interjects: "This book isn't a graffiti book.
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I sat on a bench for a while, with my back to the skyscrapers, watching office workers limber up for a friendly game.
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After countless cycles, my legs felt rubbery and my aging back, which that morning had been giving me warning twinges, was utterly limber.
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He relished the role, and at least half the kids took his suggestions seriously, vigorously wiggling their arms to limber up for the test.
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Your brain is basically mush, your pores feel like they've been blasted clean, your leggings are drenched, and your muscles are limber and relaxed.
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Rigid in party loyalty, yet limber in mind, Republicans and Democrats can deftly vault past disconfirming information to land in vastly different economic realities.
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On top of last year's funding round that valued the company at $8.5 billion, it would leave Spotify limber enough to hunt for partners.
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Tall, slow and not exactly limber, when Happ scores, it is almost exclusively from the paint—hooks, drop steps, spin moves and step-throughs.
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Mr. Hill's trumpet sound connects to the limber phrasing and logic of Clifford Brown, but with a restrained and even projection in all registers.
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But it was limber enough to bend any syllable or phrase into shapes that could be happy, sad and all the emotions in between.
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When they work—as they do in chapters about bucket lists and the Big Rock Candy Mountain—it's a limber, funny and illuminating book.
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Its basement is narrow and sweaty, with mirrored pillars, a disco ball and poles where limber visitors swing in Richardson bathing suits (or less).
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Whether such lamps are genuinely limber or just look it, they call up nostalgic feelings about schooners, Christmas decorations and Etch-a-Sketch scribbles.
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The automaker has spent the last three years working to position itself as an auto and tech company with the limber mentality of a startup.
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One of our favorite Windows machines from last year was HP's incredibly limber Spectre x360, a 13-inch laptop that could backflip into a tablet.
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BONUS -- to prove how damn limber he is, 60-year-old Page also pulls his leg over his head in the middle of the airport!!!
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We mean this to say: People that are really good at jokes and pranks stay limber by making jokes and doing pranks all day long.
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He tried wearing gloves to keep his hands warm and limber in the freezing cold of the cutting-room floor, but it was no use.
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The women came prepared, having trained throughout the year, exercising and eating healthy to stay lean and limber — better, apparently, for expanding their stomach muscles.
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The record's focus rarely falls on a single pinpoint in the music, unless you count her voice, an instrument of sensuous calm and limber cool.
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As the bassist and electronics wrangler for the Baltimore band of rhythmic contortionists Horse Lords, Max Eilbacher does his share of limber, legible instrumental work.
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Fit City In the era of hip-hop yoga and handstands on Instagram, it's easy to associate yoga with impossibly lithe and limber young people.
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" He's limber and astute, and also fun: "Might catch me at a Whole Foods/and if you see that red Mercedes then you know who.
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Regular swigs are as much a part of the sequences as inhaling or exhaling deeply, meaning that everyone is pleasantly tipsy and limber after 20 minutes.
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If you caught last year's Captain America: Civil War, you're all caught up on the specifics of this version: young, quippy, limber, sponsored by Tony Stark.
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Including stretching in my fitness program helps my muscles stay long, limber, improves my mobility and range of motion and, most importantly, helps me avoid injuries.
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Communist guerrillas are not known for their fashion sense, but Lozada, a limber man with a shaved head and a small paunch, has a dandyish streak.
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Gorgeous and graceful, the Russian rhythmic gymnast Margarita Mamun glides across the floor, twirling a hoop or a streaming red ribbon around her fantastically limber body.
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But behind closed doors, where they're free to express their endless contempt for one another, their speech is athletic and limber and just about symphonically profane.
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In "Again and Again," modal riffing and a limber six-beat pulse drive promises of devotion and satisfaction: "I see everything in you tonight," Mr. Matthews sings.
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At its most limber and colorful, the repartee in a Goldman script allowed plenty of room for memorable lines to leap happily into spectators' ears and stay there.
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He and other researchers had noted that in this area the limber pines appeared to be outpacing the bristlecones in moving to higher elevations—"leap-frogging" over them.
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In and around San Francisco, the conventional wisdom is that tech jobs require a limber, associative mind and an appetite for risk — both of which lessen with age.
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Sometimes those two facts come together, as with the limber Los Angeles rapper YG's track "FDT," whose title levels a vulgarity at the Republican presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump.
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JON PARELES Lizzo continues to stake out turf as one of this year's most versatile pop breakouts — a sturdy singer, a limber rapper and always rich with lighthearted thirst.
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Enjoyable as an atmospheric tale of crime and punishment from a distant era written in lucid, limber prose, "The Wicked Boy" also implicitly raises questions that remain with us today.
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The standout poems, though, follow "Jim Limber the Adopted Mulatto Son of Jefferson Davis," a real person sometimes invoked by Confederate sympathizers to paint Davis as not all that racist.
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Spectral Wound's take on black metal is equally urgent and hefty; limber rhythms pair with a certain sonic density that adds to their ferocious compositions without muddying up the mix.
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It kept you limber like yoga and similarly helped with back pain, but it could also come in handy if you were attacked on the street or in a bar.
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The skilled, limber cast is largely the original one, an international group (Belgian, British, Brazilian, Korean) who address one another, in scarce snatches of dialogue, by their actual first names.
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Al Hirschfeld had his NINAs: those oh-so-limber capital letters of his daughter's name that he slid between strands of hair and folds of fabric in his theater caricatures.
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Styles' limber, seemingly indestructible body allows Ambrose to indulge in that high-spot he craves, where he can just do something stupid and not hurt the other guy too badly.
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Check "Yosoiki" for dance-rock that isn't cheesy and actually limber, while "Sukima" rides a sunny soft-rock strut that sounds like if Toto (yes, Toto) were even more instrumentally adept.
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Democrats sought to level the playing field a bit through education and progressive taxation, but generally they accepted that a limber economy offered the best route to growth and good jobs.
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Recently, in a waiting room before practice, the North Koreans and their coach rolled their gloves into a ball and played an impromptu game of soccer to get their bodies limber.
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When Frank, supposedly still limber and youthful, clambers over rocks to a shoreline, where he can toss away used firearms, his motions betray the tentative and unmistakable stiffness of an older man.
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If you went to one of her shows and saw someone hit intricate choreography, then launch immediately into a limber guitar solo (or do both at the same time), that was Cook.
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"Incantations" is his four-part suite for Paloma Recio, a limber and volatile quartet with the guitarist Ben Monder, the bassist Eivind Opsvik and the drummer Nasheet Waits, all expert shape-shifters.
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Whichever route they took, the runners from Perth had to travel more than 11,000 air miles to New York, a trip that can make it hard to arrive rested, hydrated and limber.
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The sea of weird and wonderful classes now available has had most people contemplating at least one new talent or skill that they believe will make them more fit, limber or relaxed.
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NEWLY RELEASED LA BELLE NOISEUSE Jacques Rivette pondered the mystery of artistic creation in this four-hour duet (or duel) between a painter (Michel Piccoli) and his exceedingly limber model (Emmanuelle Béart).
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Some portion of his athleticism was inherited from his father, the French cinema legend Jean-Pierre Cassel, the limber and ineffably suave movie idol who was known as the French Fred Astaire.
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Say what you will about the company's approach to devices, but at least the company's everything-and-the-kitchen-sink model has allowed them to stay limber for such a hulking hardware behemoth.
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More important, he looks fast, limber and healthy — a far cry from the player who seemed debilitated even before he limped off the floor in Game 28 of the N.B.A. finals last year.
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The show, however, in the Brooklyn series On Stage at Kingsborough, preserves the tale's signature farmyard creatures and its wily wolf, incarnated by the large and limber puppets of Glass Half Full Theater.
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She would need that limber spine in a few hours, when she took the stage at the U.S. Pole Dance Championship, whipping herself around a steel apparatus to "Cornflake Girl" by Tori Amos.
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It felt like a combination of massage and assisted yoga and, after 55 minutes of doing little but lie on a padded table, I felt more limber and like my posture had improved.
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This design offers a great benefit for larger dogs who might strain their necks reaching down to the floor and for older dogs who might not be quite as limber as they once were.
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All the pulling, prodding, pummeling and, yes, punching can make you feel like the dummy in a model-mugging defense class, but you will walk outside feeling as limber and light as a ghost.
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Ms. Beier's most significant addition is an epilogue spoken by Edgar (the limber Jan-Peter Kampwirth, who spends much of the evening naked and coated in white paint), addressed to the children of tomorrow.
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And that's good news for this limber, light-footed documentary, which becomes a cinematic confidant for their fears and confessions, dreams and insecurities as they dance on the boundary between high school and adulthood.
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The song's a typically limber electro-funk jam with Thundercat singing "no one wants to be in the friend zone," before saying he's just fine with Mortal Kombat, shouting out in-game fighter Johnny Cage.
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Third Master might be a bit of a bore, but Mr. Yee surrounds him with so many surreal landscapes and witty action sequences — a combination of computers, wires and limber spines — that you'll hardly notice.
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For many of the group, the lunch had a social function, and perhaps even an intellectual one, by encouraging them to limber up their mode of creative expression, while perfecting their language to execute it.
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For many of the group, the lunch had a social function, and perhaps even an intellectual one, by encouraging them to limber up their mode of creative expression, while perfecting their language to execute it.
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Before long, thrill-seeking youths were scaling the rocky heights, armed with diaries and easels to record their impressions; and by the 10s, the limber and intrepid had taken up a novelty sport called downhill skiing.
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He opened the White House door wide to unmoored and unserious people, most recently Anthony Scaramucci, who, during his nanosecond as communications director, disparaged Bannon as someone engaged primarily in a limber act of self-gratification.
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For a time in the early part of the decade, she promised to be a different sort of pop star — stylistically limber, loose-tongued, as comfortable rapping as singing, seemingly uninterested in the seamlessness megapop typically promises.
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Symbiosis is held in Oakdale, California just a couple of weeks after The Burn, when most festival-goers are mentally limber and physically docile, their bodies frosted with Playa dust and their arms splayed open to strangers.
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EDG's players - when not doing yoga to stay limber - spend most of their time at the camp wielding virtual weaponry playing multi-player battle games like "League of Legends" or Tencent Holdings Ltd's popular "Honour of Kings".
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And it ended with "The Arch Mage," a limber piece by Mr. Eubanks that he introduced on the 1995 album "World Trio," with Mr. Holland and the percussionist Mino Cinelu — a fond throwback framed as a brisk renewal.
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While most of her Staying Vertical costars opted for modest low kicks, the impressively limber Calamy smiled as she showed off her flexibility half-way up the Palais des Festivals on the second night of the famous festival.
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Anyone curious and limber enough to bend down and follow these pointers is taken to the retailer's online privacy policy, which discloses that stepping inside the store puts you in range of technology that automatically collects personal information.
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Ephraim Sykes, a limber-legged, scene-stealing, Tony-nominated performer in "Ain't Too Proud," will jump from one jukebox musical to another when he stars in "MJ the Musical," which is scheduled to open on Broadway next summer.
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The odd-couple pick-and-rolls he runs with Marcin Gortat a few times a night are a source of consistent delight, the ball dropping through the rim by way of one vrooming virtuoso and one strangely limber oaf.
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His voice is limber and dextrous; he's right up at the front of the mix; he rifles off "I'm living scary like a hundred highs / Lil mama sexy, I got butterflies" while Young Elton swims around in the background.
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One particularly limber cop jumped up onto the stalled bulldozer, climbed into the cab, grabbed White, and leaped off the machine with him—bringing him to the ground with what looked sort of like a top-rope pile driver.
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As she capably chewed into a section of Mr. Lamar's verse, in which he serenades a select region of a woman's anatomy, her four backup dancers kept limber by doing push-ups and stretches in front of the stage.
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And yes, these moves are made for seven talented superstars to move and weave and construct human dioramas the likes of which you're unlikely to be able to recreate unless you live with six other equally limber and enthusiastic people.
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With an ideologically-limber president, there's no shortage of bad dreams among Republicans anxious over which route Trump might choose -- or whether he'll simply abandon an agreed upon direction if at some point his gut tells him public opinion is turning another way.
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No one can pretend that speed is healthy (nor, in most cases, is it legal), but the hope remains that the right combination of chemicals, administered the right way, can make the mind more limber and able while still avoiding any ill effects.
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LINGUA FRANCA Mariah Parker, who performs as Lingua Franca, merges rapping, spoken word, singing, a social conscience, a sense of humor and a limber physical presence to mix the personal and the political; tracks built on ingeniously manipulated jazz samples are a bonus.
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Four of the Deutsches Theater's finest ensemble actors throw themselves into the show's dozen supporting roles, with special mention going to the limber Ulrich Matthes, and Regine Zimmermann, who gives a scene-chewing performance (in exaggerated Viennese dialect) as the hotel's head cook.
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Halftime at the Super Bowl lasts more than twice as long as the standard 13-minute N.F.L. intermission, giving teams more time to strategize and rest but also to stay limber and energized as they rehydrate, regroup and reset for one final surge.
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"When we sleep, our body lays down cobwebs, which is why people are tighter in the morning," says Ann Frederick, founder of the Stretch To Win Institute in Tempe, AZ and creator of fascial stretch therapy, which she's used to keep Olympic athletes limber.
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In the midst of the AFC championship game last night, the football player took a seat on the bench for a moment and given the brisk 22017-some degree chill in the air, decided to keep his throwing arm limber by swaddling himself in a jacket.
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He's felt like someone who could be on the verge of arriving at their level for years, just as soon as he figured out his thing — which, it's turning out, is neither Clooney's suave cool or Damon's limber changeability, nor their outspoken (if imperfect) Hollywood liberalism.
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While Ms. Rowling's astonishingly limber voice still moves effortlessly between Ron's adolescent sarcasm and Harry's growing solemnity, from youthful exuberance to more philosophical gravity, "Deathly Hallows" is, for the most part, a somber book that marks Harry's final initiation into the complexities and sadnesses of adulthood.
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The R4 I've been testing is a 5.5/13, or a slightly thicker, warmer adaptation of a "5/4" suit, and that extra half of a millimeter in the core really does make a difference, and my arms and legs are left being that much more limber.
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Where JCVD took a darker tone, with Van Damme addressing the camera about the breakdown of his multiple marriages, his drug abuse, and his waning career, Jean-Claude Van Johnson is described as a comedy thriller, the actor's still-limber legs allowing for some over-the-top stunts.
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A big serve requires a limber, practiced player—someone strong and loose enough to twist their torso taught like a rubber band and uncoil themselves a fraction of a second later, with timing so precise that it not only translates the energy from their legs but augments it.
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There are a large number of shift, temp and blue collar work finder apps targeting a similar fast-paced, high turnover employment need in the the US and Europe — including the likes of Bacon, Catapult, Gig, JobToday, Limber, Rota, Shiftgig, Shiifty, Snag and Syft to name a few.
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These cards are the baseline power level, strategies, and concepts that Netrunner depends on, and a major revision to the card set demonstrates yet another commitment from Fantasy Flight to keep the game limber and malleable both for longterm players and for those who are interested in getting into the game.
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But, she noted to The Seattle Times in an interview in August, there was one big difference: She realized early in the series that if she was going to write the entire alphabet, Kinsey could not age in real time and still be limber enough for a fast-moving detective yarn.
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She didn't perform again at the VMAs until 2007, and by then, it was as if Banana the white python had strangled the life out of her, and we were watching not the lithe and limber dancer of "...Baby One More Time" or "Oops I Did It Again," but that woman's rather unsuccessfully reanimated corpse.
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Robt Sarazin Blake: Recitative (SameRoom) In a vibrato-shaded baritone that recalls a French chansonnier more than an Americana guitar guy, the first singer-songwriter in history to linger on the word "gerrymander" enlists a limber band colored decisively by horn man Thomas Deakin to array sixteen talky songs lasting a mere hour and a half over two CDs.
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Animated by a self-deprecating sense of humor and set down in limber, pointillist prose, Dr. Sacks's autobiographical accounts are as candid and searching as his writings about his patients, and they suggest just how rooted his compassion and intuitive understanding — as a doctor and a writer — were in his youthful feelings of fear and dislocation.
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In the past few years, BTS has become the worldwide standard-bearer for pure pop, a collection of seven members — J-Hope, RM, Suga, Jungkook, V, Jin and Jimin — who are charismatic, limber and, most crucially, game for the level of work and ambition required to be mega-popular at home, in the United States and almost everywhere in between.
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A century ago, the makeup wasn't much different, with multimillionaires who hit it big in "oil, steel, railroads, mining, limber, motorcars, banking, real estate, moving pictures, foreign trade, speculating, the manufacturing of widgets, the marketing of toothpaste, the distribution of the assets of button kings," writes Michael Gross in "740 Park," his book about the limestone co-op at East 71st that may be the avenue's most exclusive address.
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Some gamely tried: Luke James, whose falsetto on "Do Me, Baby" attracted the first lusty shrieks of the night, and Bilal, the most impressive male singer here not named Stevie, who woke up three-quarters of the way through "The Beautiful Ones" and kept putting his limber voice to work through "If I Was Your Girlfriend" (though his performance couldn't hold a candle to his riveting Prince tribute at the BET Awards in June).
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And he was coming off the peak of his career as a recording artist: "Blurred Lines," his limber collaboration with Robin Thicke, and "Get Lucky," his disco revival with Daft Punk, held No. 1 and 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a time in 2013; the next year, the pop-gospel hymn "Happy" became his first No. 1 as a lead artist, and the song that vaulted him into the stratosphere.
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Around dinnertime, the line of young, well-heeled diners that predictably slithers out of Szechuan Mountain House is long and unrelenting enough that regulars have mastered a routine: wordlessly retrieve a number from the headset-wearing maître d', ascertain the estimated wait time (usually between thirty and ninety minutes), and limber up the palate at one of the three bubble-tea places on the block that serve as informal anterooms to the spiciest kitchen on St. Mark's Place.
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I had never seen Ali in person, but geez he was beautiful, big and limber and smiling, and it didn't look like he had much else to do but walk down State Street, collecting black people and white people and brown people and young people and old people, surely not everybody in America, for he was a draft dodger and a Muslim and whatever else you wanted to call him, but he was the champion of State Street that day, the once and future champ.
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