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I swung my leg over him and straddled his lap.
Byers tackled another person, straddled him and pinned him down.
His camera woman straddled a tripod in the front row.
Now, you're interesting, because you've always kind of straddled both worlds.
Marina's first album, The Family Jewels, straddled indie and pop sounds.
She straddled a line, crossing over only when it seemed convenient.
The city of Puebla straddled the mountain road to Mexico City.
She straddled the cutoff line, but managed to fall just inside.
Her appearance straddled the line between fashionably austere and unabashedly kinky.
The first clue set I submitted probably straddled Tuesday and Wednesday.
The often arresting posters straddled the line between art and propaganda.
But some evangelical leaders, like Mr. Graham, have straddled the line.
The man straddled him and pumped four more bullets into his chest.
Men and women straddled the boats passing over their sons and daughters.
Noisey: The shape of Devo has always straddled a kind of dichotomy.
But Springleaf has occasionally straddled a legal line, records and interviews show.
She drifted back down to the stage, and Garfield straddled her, victorious.
He straddled her leg and rubbed his groin against her, she wrote.
Mr. Besson, who lives in Los Angeles, has always straddled two worlds.
The ETF has straddled that support level through March and early April.
The intruder then walked into her bedroom, straddled her and began stabbing her.
Fils-Aimé's precedent-setting tenure straddled the line between business executive and mascot.
Still, the sultan's lands straddled two continents, controlling access to the Black Sea.
Was she birthing this paper as she pushed it through her straddled legs?
And this straddled the lines of both, and played with the audience's perception.
The hair and makeup straddled the line between soft and hard, innocent and dangerous.
He held it for me and I straddled him, sank down on him slowly.
Now, the bikers straddled their bikes and lined up in formation on the road.
We created a hammock with the silk, and then straddled the silk upside down.
The conversation straddled the same subjects they had repeatedly raised with journalists and lawmakers.
He also toured a village known as Little Berlin, which once straddled the border.
And yet the three of them straddled two cultures as uneasily as the Otomi.
He straddled the boundary between man and boy, straight and gay, sexual and innocent.
As DeJesus wrote, Spam has always straddled the line between the highbrow and the lowbrow.
Like her, King straddled two worlds, one learned and formal, the other spontaneous and communitarian.
Thick slices of duck, a tad too magenta, straddled an irresistible plank of fried bread.
Unlike many of her colleagues, she straddled genres, between futuristic fantasies and enigmatic mystery novels.
As is common in Mormonism, Mr. Monson's life straddled the worlds of business and religion.
And the travel bans have torn apart families, whose relatives have straddled borders for centuries.
They, like Stockwell, have straddled the line between tough material abstraction, nature, and the figure.
What I found was something that straddled the line between a strategy game and a puzzler.
I straddled these two worlds and learned early how to look rich, even if I wasn't.
The last vestige of the Islamic State's caliphate that straddled Syria and Iraq is under attack.
Now, millions of American young people are straddled with college loans that look impossible to repay.
We'd get requests all the time for a mid-level offering that straddled the two plans.
There was the "Poke," which straddled the line between flirty and creepy (somehow, Poking still exists).
After the first few tentative kisses, she crossed a leg over his lap and straddled him.
The Self-Assembly Lab's programmable materials have straddled the boundary between art, design, and science for years.
Felix Neureuther of Germany, who led after the first run, straddled a gate and failed to finish.
She stood, straddled, kneeled, laid and stretched on the paddleboard ... 'cause just standing upright is sooo boring.
Kamala Harris is the clearest example of a candidate who so far has straddled the two camps.
The Harry Potter universe has always straddled the world we know and the one in Rowling's imagination.
Hoydic will be forever remembered as the woman who straddled one Ryan Gosling on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Mr. Khashoggi straddled this dangerous fault line, and it might have played a part in his assassination.
A person who witnessed the incident recalled, as Ms. Stone did, that it straddled a familiar line.
Having straddled that cultural divide, as a writer and citizen, I resist the stereotyping of either side.
These plans argue that too many Americans are straddled with too many challenges to meet their expenses.
They straddled an important line, and paved the way so well that now their time here is done.
What initially drew me in was how the shade selection expertly straddled the line between editorial and everyday.
" Patrick Brachner, representing Azerbaijan, was less fortunate on his first run: "It was fun, until I straddled unfortunately.
And that's why they really don't care how much debt your child is straddled with when they graduate.
Iraq's minorities were once the glue that straddled Iraq's sectarian and ethnic lines and held the country together.
The issue of abstraction and representation seemed beside the point to her, and her work straddled both possibilities.
Firing blindly, I straddled my troll girlfriend's large brown body, trying desperately to keep some blood inside her.
And maybe it would be nice to have a pelvic thrust from one woman as she straddled another?
Her career straddled the amateur and Open eras, and the emphasis today is increasingly on Open-era achievement.
Your first graphic novel, American Born Chinese, straddled that line, winning both graphic novel awards and traditional book awards.
Imagine if that photo was based on a photo of an older, highly sexualized woman straddled atop a man.
Mr Orr, 43, is Siberian Yupik from a clan of whalers and traders that straddled Russia and Northwest Alaska.
Pegatron countered by saying the group miscounted because that period straddled state holidays, when pay was three times' normal.
"I always wanted to play two pianos," she said as she straddled a piano bench between the two instruments.
England's captain Alastair Cook, one of two England players left from that 2010 team, has straddled the two positions.
Donnelly was a master at quietly cultivating a network, one that straddled the permeable line between government and industry.
Kirk has also straddled the controversy over Obama's regulatory push to rein in emissions from coal-fired power plants.
And her music has always straddled the decades and genres, citing everyone from Beyoncé to Iron Maiden as influences.
At the lunch Thursday, he straddled a line between being a polite guest and the bearer of a message.
Islamic State declared a caliphate which straddled territory in Iraq and Syria, with Mosul as its de facto capital.
At one point, Timberlake, straddled by a female dancer, licks those throbbing lips whilst slowly lowering himself down upon her.
I straddled the dirt bike, pounding my foot to kick-start the engine, and began slowly cruising between the trees.
That those banks straddled both worlds – securities trading and traditional banking – is what made the 20083 financial crisis life-threatening.
The real Mark Felt straddled the line between these interpretations, but Mark Felt opts for a binary choice between them.
Atget, whose life straddled the 19th and 20th centuries, documented France's shift from a rural economy to an urban one.
It straddled the territory between baklava and mille-feuille, and it spoke of place, although I couldn't be certain where.
The episode looks at how Scarlatti created a style of his own, and successfully straddled the Baroque and Classical periods.
Consider old Penn Station, a Beaux-Arts masterpiece of imposing grandeur and soaring arches that once straddled an entire block.
It can be straddled so that she can easily hammer and tinker with objects on its well-worn work surface.
Rocky straddled his lap, her skirt hiked above her knees and the sun-warmed wooden bench marking patterns into her skin.
Ever since John Fairfax took over the fledgling Sydney Morning Herald newspaper in 1841, the Fairfax name has straddled Australia's media.
But its pathway has become decidedly more bruising, straddled by a groundswell of public recriminations in both the U.S. and Europe.
" Thus far the army has straddled the fence: On the one hand, they've affirmed they have "no reason to repress protesters.
Malaysia and the Philippines hold some Spratlys features while Brunei claims waters straddled by China's so-called nine-dash line claim.
He straddled roles in mainstream Bollywood films with regular appearances in film producer Ismail Merchant's collaborations with U.S. director James Ivory.
If they lose Mosul, the self-described caliphate which once straddled parts of Iraq and Syria is widely expected to collapse.
It was published pretty much everywhere and defined her as a movie star who straddled digital cool and silver screen grace.
Washington Post photographers captured the private moments of members of Congress as they straddled the delicate task of a presidential impeachment.
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who has straddled the line of being a Trump-defender and Trump-critic, sided with Trump.
And in the middle of a busy highway, a park ranger straddled a speckled female bushbuck antelope and slit its throat.
Wynn has straddled both those worlds, as a prominent figure in the casino resort business and onetime rival of Donald Trump.
Lest you've forgotten where we left off last week, everyone but Corinne is mad that Corinne straddled Nick in the bouncy house.
It's unclear if the reasoning has anything to do with legal issues, but Torrentz has always straddled this blurry line for feds.
But the New Left also intentionally straddled the line between prank and sincerity in order to draw media attention to their cause.
Arrive at Treasure Island, the man-made, former military base located between San Francisco and Oakland and straddled by the Bay Bridge.
Court, 74, who straddled the sport's amateur and professional eras, was also the first mother to win a major as a professional.
Later in the episode, Corrine went one step further and straddled Viall in a bounce castle wearing nothing but a string bikini.
She promised, on the site, to reverse dark spells with a form of magic that straddled the line between sorcery and healing.
Released last year, that product straddled the line between fitness tracker and smartwatch, omitting, among other things, support for third-party apps.
Before them, against a backdrop of yellow taxis and bemused drivers, what looked like a 1920s Model-T Ford straddled the sidewalk.
Ms. Acharia, who has straddled Hollywood and Silicon Valley, said that, as an Indian woman, she was a rarity in both worlds.
This spectacle, Elisabeth Vincentelli wrote, helps you understand how the company "has so successfully straddled art and business all these years." cirquedusoleil.
Tim McGraw straddled the diving board of his swimming pool while he sang "Something Like That," with studio musicians joining him remotely.
Tim McGraw straddled the diving board of his swimming pool while he sang "Something Like That," with studio musicians joining him remotely.
This spectacle, Elisabeth Vincentelli wrote, helps you understand how the company "has so successfully straddled art and business all these years."cirquedusoleil.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Veteran Indian actor Om Puri, who successfully straddled movie careers in Bollywood and the West, died on Friday in Mumbai.
He repeatedly slammed her face on the ground, forcefully straddled her while thrusting his knees into her back and neck, the footage shows.
He took off his clothing, straddled, and masturbated on top of her, despite being told repeatedly to stop, the performer told the Times.
He straddled the boards as a surprised San Jose defense pair Paul Martin and Burns kept him from fully getting off the ice.
Scotia's exit could mark the end of an era when banks straddled the supply chain, said an executive at a major Swiss refiner.
The sixty minutes that straddled the drafting of Wang and Zhou represents the most important hour in Chinese basketball since Yao Ming's heyday.
Emilio Navaira, a Tejano singer from Texas who successfully straddled borders both musically and geographically, died on May 16 in New Braunfels, Tex.
And as they continue to be "sandwiched" between supporting their children and their parents, all while straddled with debt, can you blame them?
While Kennedy's defense of LGBT rights was full-throated, abortion truly captures his reputation as a moderate who straddled the court's ideological divides.
Megyn Kelly, formerly of Fox News, whose prime-time show straddled news and commentary, co-moderated a Republican primary debate in August 2015.
These are meant to be straddled (bidet is a French word for pony), and they require a lot of space and additional plumbing.
She said he asked her several times for sex and once straddled her head between his legs when she was bent over cleaning.
Of all the bands of that era, nobody quite straddled indie-rock and the synthy dance like LCD Soundsystem, and nobody has since.
Esau was the rare man who could see both sides of this dispute, the kind of man who straddled worlds both modern and ancient.
The seating chart incorporated Belle's favorite hobby, reading, and the floral arrangements straddled the line between fairy-tale magic and down-to-earth whimsy.
The first instance straddled the start of a brief recession, the second a global financial shock from emerging-markets meltdowns and hedge-fund implosions.
As the network came under fire for hiring Isgur, CNN's Stelter straddled a fine line between reporting on the news and defending his employer.
To date, scaling e-commerce in Africa has straddled the line of challenge and opportunity, perhaps more than any other market in the world.
She entered the room, placed a chair as if she were going to sit in it — but then straddled it as the beat began.
And unlike the Republicans who are straddled with an ambiguous Republican like President Trump in the White House, they are free to do so.
His music straddled popular, classical and avant-garde styles, from jazz, rock, electronic dance music and new age to Baroque, Minimalism and sonic experiments.
Officials say Thursday's government reshuffle will also solidify Razzaz's mandate to accelerate economic reforms, seen as crucial to spur growth in the debt-straddled country.
Its leading internal protagonist was a kingdom that had straddled the Alps for centuries, taking in Savoy to the west and Piedmont to the east.
And that was enough for Poke to want to try again, and he straddled Emil, rocking the frame until the other man moaned underneath him.
The following year, she straddled a cannon in the "If I Could Turn Back Time" video, creating one of the decade's most brazenly iconic images.
Born in 1943 in Miami's Liberty City, Young's upbringing straddled segregation and integration and coincided with a wave of vicissitudes to the historically black neighborhood.
Puppeteers in wetsuits straddled the sides or scrambled into harnesses so that they could dangle above it, holding wires attached to fabric, feathers, tinsel, pinwheels.
She said some of those requests were granted in that fiscal year, which straddled the Obama administration, but it was not immediately clear how many.
Those promises will bump up against the reality that Pakistan's government has little money to spare, is straddled with debt and must tighten its finances.
" Ms. Diller, after all, has always straddled the worlds of art, architecture and performance, and she envisioned the High Line as "a fantastic urban stage.
During a field sobriety test, Woods swayed as he straddled the white line and could not take a step in the heel-to-toe method.
Then came the super-G crash, when she straddled a gate in midair, flew face first down the mountain and slammed into the safety nets.
We picked up where we left off last week with all the women complaining because Corinne straddled Nick in a bouncy house during the pool party.
Trump has never held public office and hasn't worked to implement a platform yet, but as a business owner, he seems to have straddled the fence.
When she arrived he pushed her onto his bed, straddled her chest and forced her to perform oral sex before raping her, according to court documents.
As he straddled her, she yelled at him to "get off me," warning Watts he might "hurt the baby," a boy they planned to name Nico.
"[Nassar] drugged her, made her lay nude on a treatment table, straddled her and digitally penetrated her while rubbing his erect penis against her," Erin wrote.
His two seasons straddled a lockout, and he could not coax a second playoff berth out of a roster gutted by injuries, free agency and trades.
Stunned, she remembered feeling unable to say no to her boss and pastor as he straddled her, unhooked her bra and touched her near her breasts.
Instead, Romney straddled that swamp masquerading as moral high ground where he rejected everybody, took no responsibility for anybody, and therefore was no help at all.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was meant to be a Wii U release, but it eventually straddled both machines, just like Twilight Princess.
During Prohibition, Mexicans built saloons that straddled the border, so that patrons could drink so long as they were on the correct side of the building.
Favourites like the Boston Red Sox have been knocked out early, and numerous see-saw games have included comebacks that straddled the line between improbable and impossible.
In his speech on Friday, Powell straddled the middle of both views, giving few clues as to what is to happen next at the September policy meeting.
He then stripped, straddled, and masturbated on top of her, despite her repeatedly asking him to stop and telling him she was engaged, Matthau told the Times.
It matched that of an American lawyer with whom he had collaborated for a number of years, on various cases whose particulars straddled the U.S.-Canada border.
Soon I straddled the creek, and then it died, or was born, at a patch of sourgrass in a strip of sunlight torn by a windthrown oak.
" Over on a sofa covered in red masking tape, a finance type leered as a woman straddled his lap to the fading strains of "Apple Bottom Jeans.
His buildings, meanwhile, straddled the line between indoors and out, integrating their surroundings through expanses of glass and pared-down facades that don't compete with the landscape.
Titled "Wide Open Mind," by Minneapolis-based artist Kimber Fiebiger, the sculpture is a stylized female figure in bronze standing with rounded arms akimbo and arced legs straddled.
The woman from this story came to be known as St. Brigid, a patron saint of Ireland who straddled Paganism and Christianity and defended the plights of women.
They paint a surprising picture of the ancient world during a time period that straddled the event 66 million years ago that put an end to large dinosaurs.
Each has benefits and drawbacks — Amazon has cornered the home, Apple has done a good job in mobile and Google has straddled the two better than anyone else.
La Scala Paris has found a natural partner in Ms. Reza, a playwright who has also straddled that divide, and "On Arthur Schopenhauer's Sledge" is a creditable start.
All in all, she is one of the few artists that has straddled a more contemporary artistic scene, a more alternative music scene, and a broad pop spectrum.
So when I deliberately straddled the line to pass a biker making his way up the hill, the steering wheel of the XC90 tugged a bit toward the cyclist.
When they got to his bedroom, Gonzalez said he tossed her on his bed, straddled himself on top of her, pinned her arms behind her head, and kissed her.
Ramírez Erre carted the wooden equine until it straddled the line between the neighboring countries, a statement on the nature of existing in two nations at the same time.
Yet Parks, who straddled protest and photography, remains outside the pantheon of great black leaders in civil rights, and is less known than his mostly white contemporaries in photography.
The store's security camera shows that during that time, Salamoni had straddled Sterling, and Lake had crouched over him and pulled out a gun, pointing at the man's head.
Because vice presidents straddled both branches, in practice they were accepted in neither, which is part of the reason the vice presidency was a marginal office for so long.
The seminal Soho institution was home to all sorts of activities which straddled the seedy/glam divide with aplomb, most notably, the Tuesday night sensation that was White Heat.
Vonn's main rival for the overall title, Lara Gut of Switzerland, straddled a gate in the slalom and did not finish, allowing Vonn to extend her lead to 28 points.
Hot and humid, Alta Verapaz is straddled by mountains up to 2,500 meters high, similar to the Andean parts of the Amazon basin where cultivation of coca is most widespread.
The conversation among the students straddled the line between possible benefits of drugs and alcohol — they can be fun and relieve stress — and the harms that can come of them.
Miniscule pay hikes have become a global phenomenon, but Australia - which came out of the global financial crisis relatively unscathed - is now straddled with sub-par growth and discouraged consumers.
The result is we have millions of young Americans straddled with such massive student loan debt that paying the rent or the mortgage is impossible for too many of them.
Since adopting Harlem as his home and choosing it to hone his skills as a showman restaurateur, Mr. Samuelsson has masterfully straddled a fine line between gentrification, appropriation and approbation.
Singh, who died of a massive heart attack in New York in 1999, at the age of 56, straddled the chasm that separates modernist street photography and traditional Indian culture.
The lawsuit claims excessive force, assault and unlawful detention, and it described how the officer straddled Ms. Becton and held her down with a knee on her back and neck.
"This is the important work of coming in later, and looking back, and pulling in people who straddled genres, and pulling in people who weren't just white dudes," he says.
Serena will now manage her schedule as she chases down the all-time leader Margaret Court, the Australian whose record of 24 grand slam titles straddled the amateur and professional eras.
Below are two bears in a state of tantric ecstasy: a plush blue Care Bear's face is straddled by a pink bear-shaped candle, that's quite literally melted into its partner.
Her culinary career straddled pre- and post-communist Cuba, and she was adept at meeting the changing needs of her audience, continually adapting her recipes to meet the fluctuating political climate.
Today we published an article that looks at the seismic risks of a denser and taller San Francisco — a city straddled by two of the most active faults in North America.
In a scene from the season two finale, Maura lies on a hotel bed, straddled by a similarly middle-aged woman who likely shares our protagonist's love of shawls and NPR.
When "Little Man, Little Man" was first published in 1976, critics didn't know what to make of an experimental, enigmatic picture book that straddled the line between children's and adult literature.
It straddled that line between exceptional mid-market and not-quite luxe, although it was cool to watch the ambient lighting run through its change protocol when the sun went down.
"With his subversive attitude and commanding nature, he straddled musical genres and created electrifying music that was bursting with character," Recording Academy President and CEO Deborah Dugan said in a statement.
The euro slipped to as low as $1.1097, its lowest since mid-March on Monday, though it has managed to bounce back from that level, which straddled its 200-day moving average.
Both are pretty logical extensions for a company that's always straddled the line between desktop and industrial 3D printing, by offering pro-level high-res printing in a portable/affordable form factor.
In Europe, concern for Italy's economy continues to rise as that nation struggles to maintain negative interest rates while simultaneously raising capital for its banking system, which is straddled with mounting debt.
They know that college grads are more likely to make more money after they graduate than they do, but they also know they're very likely to be straddled with massive student debt.
She's straddled the world of high fashion and commercial fashion — a feat that rendered her and her amazonian cohorts an anomaly amongst models back then, where you were one or the other.
Philadelphia also knocked off the Islanders in overtime on Sunday after losing 12 of its previous 15 contests – a slump that followed a 20-game winning streak that straddled November and December.
Bowie, who died aged 69 in January, straddled the worlds of music, fashion, drama and art for five decades, and was known for some of the most innovative songs of his generation.
Why had we allowed a black British artist who'd straddled commercial success and critical acclaim all before his twentieth birthday to become little more than a cheap punchline for a sketch show?
"Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street," she sang on the title track of "Red," from 2012, an album that boldly straddled the pop-country divide.
Jeb has similarly straddled the moderate-conservative divide, originally running for Florida governor as a hard-right candidate (and losing), but moderating (and subsequently winning twice) by emphasizing his outreach to Hispanics.
Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984) was known for his movies about savage collisions between old eras and new, reflecting his own experience as a director who straddled the studio system and New Hollywood.
Turkish Open The Turkish Golf Federation president, Ahmet Agaoglu, likes to tell the story of the time Tiger Woods straddled two continents and struck golf's first intercontinental shot from Asia to Europe.
BTW, we also got Amber arriving in an SUV and asked about her injured foot -- which has been straddled with a brace for a few weeks now after a trip to Hawaii.
A federal Department of Education survey found that 94 percent of public school teachers in the United States pay for supplies without reimbursement in the school year that straddled 2014 and 2015.
Straddled between the borders of London and Kent, places like Thamesmead, Belvedere, and Dartford are the perfect home for misplaced environmentalists, victims of their own drug psychosis, and exploding vessels of shit.
Famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who passed away early Wednesday at the age of 76, was a unique public figure, one who straddled the line between scientific authority and celebrity with deft, savvy care.
In a row of dusty, barracks-style apartments straddled by railway tracks and vast fields of broccoli, Maria Hernandez, 60, pays $520 a month for two tiny rooms, each about 18 feet across.
Nixon was also straddled with high inflation and a generally weak economy during the final years of his presidency while Trump is riding a still strong economy and Clinton enjoyed the same scenario.
Characters that straddled the line between good and evil — heroes who had destructive urges or a history of killing (think: Wolverine and the Punisher) and conscientious villains (think: Magneto or even Deadpool) — became beloved.
Assael found that Liston straddled the line between two worlds, walking in the limelight with celebrities like Elvis, but at the same time consorting with criminals, big players in the mob, and dirty cops.
A set of regulations introduced since the crisis, known as Dodd-Frank, did not go far enough, he said in prepared remarks that straddled the line between the Fed's policymaking remit and political advocacy.
RED has straddled that line, with gear generally too expensive for people who aren't actually filmmakers (think $15-30,000), but often considerably cheaper than competition from the likes of Arri and Panavision (think higher).
Scores of excited passengers straddled a yellow strip across black tiles that highlighted the demarcation line between Hong Kong and mainland China, while others passed through turnstiles surrounded by red, orange and white balloons.
San Francisco, which is straddled by the San Andreas and Hayward faults, has spent billions of dollars strengthening government buildings and other structures and has a program of mandatory retrofits for soft-story buildings.
After decades of creating work that straddled the line between ingenious and infuriating, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan announced his retirement in 2011, right when his own retrospective was opening at New York's Guggenheim Museum.
Last night, during a performance for her Tell Me You Love Me World Tour, Demi Lovato kissed Kehlani during a performance of the song "Lonely" — then, she straddled the singer on a bed on stage.
As someone who's spent the last decade researching and writing about Sarah Winchester and her house, her story has captivated me not just because of its oddness, but because of the unique period she straddled.
Ms. Bartley, who is a longtime industry veteran and the partner of David Sims, the fashion photographer, is well aware of the line to be straddled between salable clothes and those made for magazine pages.
Her interpretative presentation of analog telephone equipment, though more avant-garde than techno, straddled those two streams, jibing nicely with the vision behind ISSUE's 1926 theater, which is being renovated as a modern event space.
Mr. García, 25, a rare two-term president who had become a larger-than-life figure in Peru, and whose legacy straddled periods of both growth and economic collapse, knew that he was under investigation.
Mattis, who resigned from his Cabinet position in December, previously straddled this policy question that came into play in 2015 when then-Secretary of Defense Ash Carter opened all roles in the military to women.
It was commissioned by the Parrish's founder, Samuel Longstreth Parrish, a Europhile whose life straddled the 19th and 20th centuries, when most American art collectors scoured Europe and brought home items that suited their fancy.
During his three-term run as New York mayor, Bloomberg's tough tactics earned him a mixed record with unions: He had his share of enemies and allies, as well as people who straddled the divide.
Starring a smashing Laurie Metcalf as a middle-aged Nora Helmer, Sam Gold's witty, heartfelt production straddled the centuries, while reminding us of the singular power of theater to initiate the most profound of conversations.
As the two men struggled, video shows, a second officer, who has not been publicly identified, joined the fray, holding Hubbard down as Amiott straddled his chest, punching him repeatedly before handcuffing and arresting him.
Kardashian West posted a headless selfie as she straddled her legs open wearing the bikini that looked like itty bitty nipple covers with the double "C" logo connected to a string and teeny string bikini bottoms.
The guest host put up a good fight, but once McKinnon got going — she was raving about her ghostly encounter as she straddled across two chairs and smashed her butt against Schreiber's — it was all over.
He created paintings, drawings, murals, sculptures, installations, and public art that straddled representation and abstraction, architecture and ornament, formalist strategies and pictorial narrative, and churned styles, iconographies, and histories into an indelible web of postmodern critique.
For the record, that is the only time those camps should ever be straddled, even though, according to the BSB residency in Las Vegas, the median age of all active boy bands is currently 42. Anyway.
For nearly 90 years, the consumer products giant — whose brands include Dove soap, Lipton tea, Surf detergent, and Ben and Jerry's ice cream — has straddled the North Sea, maintaining headquarters in London and in the Netherlands.
He straddled two worlds in the 1960s and '70s as he came of age in the years after the Watts riots, where at home his grandfather collected samurai swords and outside he had mostly black friends.
According to a federal Department of Education survey released on Tuesday, 94 percent of public school teachers in the United States reported paying for supplies without reimbursement in the school year that straddled 2014 and 2015.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - "It's not my first time," fireman Patrick Obite said with an air of confidence as, kneeling, he straddled a meter-long crocodile in the carpark of a building site in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan.
In just one episode, Corinne had Nick lick whipped cream off her chest, slept through a rose ceremony, revealed she has a nanny back home who makes her cheese pasta and straddled Nick in a bouncy house.
The show, which ran from 1993 to 2002 on Fox (and recently returned for a limited six-episode engagement) straddled television eras, debuting before the golden age had taken shape and ending as it was well underway.
Actually, this is the second generation of the Flyer; the first, which Kitty Hawk showed off over San Francisco Bay in June 2017, looked like something a comic book villain might fly, with a seat you straddled.
Unbound to any particular geography or ideology, artistic style or medium, Kabakov remains today, as he has for decades, a cultural enigma, straddled between worlds, if not directly plugged into the Higgs Boson of the cosmos itself.
Rage themselves straddled these tiers, as a multiracial act who made millions through their contract with a Sony subsidiary, but their songs seldom muddied the borders — clear-cut indignation was more important to the band than contradiction.
"Today, we're straddled between limited transparency and very, very early decision support," said Tom Main, founder of the Oliver Wyman Innovation Center, which works on using the market to bring down health care costs and improve quality.
Joining the bank in 2010, he was put in a group that handled private investments for Goldman partners, a role that straddled divisions and allowed McDonough to closely observe the firm's high profile deals, including Facebook's IPO.
" His main account features pictures of bicycles and scooters too: some of them are regular-looking bikes with Focus branding, while others are electric and occasionally straddled by a female model in photos labeled "The Curves Club.
As Bendjima sat shirtless on the ground of a bathroom wearing only jeans, Kardashian hopped on top and straddled him (as he gripped her rear end) before snapping the sexy shot, prominently featuring the brand's iconic logoed underwear.
Harris pissed himself when Tony laid him out and straddled him, taser in both hands, the meat bucking and shaking and leaking and drooling and making little muffled squeaks like someone screaming into a paper bag far away.
First, she conceived a showcase in Graz, inviting 23 designers whose work straddled art and design, including, among others, the Scottish designer Dean Brown and Peter Mabeo from Gaborone, Botswana, whose furniture fuses African craftsmanship with European influences.
Cardi soon joined him to rap her part of the track, making quite an entrance as she hit the stage in a green, sparkling corset ensemble, and straddled her husband on stage as he sat down in a chair.
Italian Dominik Paris led after the downhill leg of the two-leg event and was on course to complete his win in the slalom leg until he lost control and straddled a gate near the end of his run.
As Ángel Rafael Aino, 31, a member of the winning team, straddled a dead boar and with a proud smile repeated the stabbing motion with which he had punctured its heart, some wondered how long such rituals would last.
Kelela served as the album's executive producer, which is worth mentioning so as not to minimize her as "just a vocalist" but to understand how, as a second-generation Ethiopian girl raised in Washington, she has always straddled worlds.
French director Juliette Binoche, herself a Silver Bear winner, chairs the main competition jury in the festival, which owes its political sensibility to its 1951 birth in a divided city that straddled the front lines of the Cold War.
But Mr. Williams argues that Mr. Richmond had straddled both race and class divisions of his time: his education and proximity to the wealthy made him more socially adept than many English-born boxers who rose from abject poverty.
They also knew how to revisit formulas techno had abandoned or never used to its greatest potential (like the piano, on which their 2001 album Drukqs is almost entirely composed), and straddled the line between club music and pop.
A pioneering chameleon of performance imagery, Bowie straddled the worlds of hedonistic rock, fashion, art and drama for five decades, pushing the boundaries of music and his own sanity to produce some of the most innovative songs of his generation.
A significant segment of the forces fighting on the communist side identified as Slavs; some of these had already taken up arms as part of the leftist-dominated resistance to the Nazi occupation, a cause which straddled the Greek-Yugoslav border.
But pop has always straddled a line between commercial product and individualized art, and the behind-the-scenes footage shows just how personally the band members have internalized their music's message of self-love to counteract their own self-doubt.
Christian pacifists, black nationalists, liberal integrationists, black and white feminists, and peace activists were all, at various points, a part of the group, which successfully straddled the competing models of black identity advocated by the civil rights and Black Power movements.
Astronomers have discovered an asteroid so small it could "be straddled by a person in a hypothetical space-themed sequel to the iconic bomb-riding scene in the movie Dr. Strangelove," according to this colorful statement from University of Arizona (UA).
She straddled the line between today and yesterday with Rupert Holmes's brilliant "The People That You Never Get to Love," which describes romantic daydreams in a city of strangers who never meet because they are all headed in different directions.
He had an unmistakably black sound, a sound that had been forged over centuries in the privacy of segregated worship, but he fitted it, often, over flawless Standard English syntax that straddled in its rhythms the Constitution and the Bible.
Stateside, the work of Overstreet's D.C.-based contemporary Sam Gilliam also brilliantly straddled pictorial and sculptural space, though Gilliam's approach to the unstretched canvas as substrate strikes me as attuned to geological or even meteorological forms, rather than the built environment.
His career has zigzagged across continents and straddled the end of the Soviet Union: He went from Moscow back to Kiev; then Winnipeg, Canada; Copenhagen; and back to Moscow, where he directed the Bolshoi Ballet for five years beginning in 2004.
The adventure of driving the dizzying switchbacks of a gravel mountain pass straddled by craggy pinnacles is a reason some travelers will take the long way via Prince Albert toward the fabled, lush Garden Route on the Indian Ocean coast.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian government re-opened the highway between the cities of Homs and Hama on Wednesday a month after its forces retook a rebel-held pocket that had straddled the road that was closed for almost seven years.
He straddled me and held my hair, and continued to punch me in the face, telling me that he was an alpha male, that he wasn't going to take no shit from no bitch, just kept punching me and punching me.
There ensued an arcane but fiery debate between Chinese and Korean experts over whether the kingdom of Goguryeo, the territory of which straddled northern Korea and north-eastern China between the first and seventh centuries, was mostly Korean or Chinese in nature.
Besides "Look What You Made Me Do," which straddled the line between 'news item about celebrity beef' and 'a track that Right Said Fred now have a writing credit on,' few of Reputation's other singles made such a colossal impact on the charts.
The promotional materials for 8 Mile hammered the idea that the titular road was the dividing line between white and black Detroit, and that he straddled that divide; he was someone who passed through each world, not quite at home in either one.
He wore black shorts and a black basketball jersey, and his haircut straddled the line between a faux-hawk and a fade; a racket bag was slung over his shoulders, and his eyes were fixed on two smartphones, one in each hand.
AMMAN, March 15 (Reuters) - Jordan's central bank cut compulsory reserves for commercial banks to 5% from 7% on Sunday to inject more than 500 million dinars ($705 million) of extra liquidity to mitigate the negative impact of coronavirus on the debt-straddled economy.
His band, Chic, the group that straddled disco and funk and had some of the biggest hits of the late '70s, was nominated 11 times, more than any other act in the hall's 32-year history — and still they didn't make it.
Finally, a witness who lived all the way in Florida came forward to say that he'd seen Gilbert in the infirmary bloody and screaming — and that he kept screaming until one of the nuns straddled him, put a pillow over his face, and smothered him.
If you're going to recall anything about Cooper's inaugural Bachelor run, it will be one of two truly standout moments: the time she straddled Old Pillow Lips during a steamy pre-rose ceremony makeout session, or the time she jokingly pledged to drink Luyendyk's urine.
An instrumental force in avant-garde dance and key player in the inception of the art collective Judson Dance Theater, Rainer took to filmmaking in the 221s, occupying a unique space that both straddled and rejected the modes of performance art, documentary, essay, and film.
Cabin crew said at a media briefing they were forced to physically report to work when sick to provide written details of symptoms and struggled to claim sick pay as their terms and conditions often straddled the law of Ireland and their home country.
Mose Allison, a pianist, singer and songwriter who straddled modern jazz and Delta blues, belonging to both styles even as he became a touchstone for British Invasion rockers and folksy troubadours, died on Tuesday at his home in Hilton Head, S.C. He was 20153.
Dropping Bisping with a knee in the dying seconds of the third round, just after the Brit had motioned to referee Herb Dean about his mouthpiece, Silva straddled the top of the Octagon despite Dean constantly telling him that the fight was not over.
PARELES The tinkly bell tones that united the producer Mura Masa's past hits as they straddled pop, hip-hop and club tracks are nowhere to be found in two songs he released this week: "No Hope Generation" and "Deal Wiv It." He's gone punk and post-punk.
DCM Ventures, one of the few firms that has straddled China and Silicon Valley since its founding 1873 years ago, has joined a rush of venture capital fundraising that put this year on pace to be the most lucrative since 2000, according to Thomson Reuters data.
During the Cinco de Mayo fiesta, dancers paraded from Mexico into America then back again; beauty queens from both countries sat together on a platform that straddled the border; white tourists crossed into Mexico for the bullfights, the night life and the "rum runs" — cheap alcohol.
Just weeks ago, Collins was caught up in the maelstrom of Trump's Senate impeachment trial, where she straddled the middle by voting with Democrats to extend the trial by calling for new evidence but then siding with her GOP colleagues in voting down two articles of impeachment.
The finding is significant because for years, leaders of Australian rules football have straddled an uncomfortable fence, talking down the risks of potential long-term brain damage from the sport while also focusing on eliminating head hits and trying to prevent concussions and other traumatic brain injuries.
We also got to witness her schooling Gendry on just how talented she is with a blade, in a scene that clearly straddled the line between flirting with your crush and lowkey terrifying them with a threat about how you could easily murder them at any moment.
Strutt has successfully straddled the hacker and government communities for years, having hosted the IRC network for the hacker community 2600 while contracting for the military and government and also being a member of the FBI's Infragard program, which fosters cooperation between the feds and the private sector.
The previous Purge films straddled a line between entertainment and political commentary, but with the latest installment, the political message is so heavily foregrounded, DeMonaco and the others seem to be forcing viewers to consider the implications of inhumane governing and a political system openly biased against poorer citizens.
" Former Apple employee Bob Burrough, who straddled the Jobs and Cook eras by working at Apple from 2007-2014, made headlines earlier this year when he called Apple boring, tweeting, "The first thing Tim did as CEO was convert Apple from dynamic change-maker into a boring operations company.
Fair question: Given the stress of the being leader of the free world, the traveling, the pressure, the fundraising, the important briefings, the tightrope constantly being straddled, shouldn't there be complete and total disclosure of a candidate medical records, including a press conference with the doctors treating them?
Once at the top of the track, the boxes would be raised by jacks built into the wagons carrying them, rotated and then lowered back down onto supports on either side of the track, so that they straddled the track above the height of a train, like bridges.
After enduring a few misfires, I thought I was Cirque'd out, but this outing is a bracing reminder that when the company is at the top of its game — and "Luzia" is very much peak Cirque — you understand how it has so successfully straddled art and business all these years.
As Carter straddled the old New Deal-Great Society liberalism and the age of Reaganism and neoliberalism to come, so Trump's presidency is at once the seeming last gasp for the Reagan coalition and a possible doorway into a future where socialism and right-wing populism contend for mastery instead.
The cast features James Whiteside, a principal dancer with American Ballet Theater; Lloyd Knight, a principal of the Martha Graham Dance Company; Garen Scribner, a former member of San Francisco Ballet and a Broadway actor; and Reid Bartelme, a costume designer and dancer whose career has straddled both ballet and contemporary dance.
Here is a roundup of some of the best and most notable projects of the bunch: 'THROUGH THE REPELLENT FENCE' (21981) The director Sam Wainwright Douglas chronicles the planning and deployment of "Repellent Fence," a two-mile-long art installation from the collective Postcommodity that straddled the border for four days in 21987.
The cuts have driven global steel prices 60 percent higher since late 2015, according to consultants MEPS The global steel sector is still straddled with excess capacity in China and beyond however, and the U.S. fears China could again export its cut price excess steel if faced with a downturn at home.
Aside from pop, his curiosity has taken him on a journey through avant garde theatre, film, photography, design, soundtracks, lauded books about music and psychogeographic cycling, art curation and other areas we just don't have the space to cover—not when he's straddled so many genres and crossed over more times than the ferryman of Hades.
Two video projections, each taking up the width of nearly a whole wall, showed subtly violent scenes: A woman thrashed on the floor of a cardboard-padded room; another woman straddled a mirror, her bare legs inscribed with what looked like the stitching of skintight jeans; a grand piano played itself, producing an ominous looping refrain.
Racing straight after Shiffrin, Vonn was already eight one-hundredths of a second behind her compatriot at the first checkpoint when, off balance after misreading the roll on the crown of a hill, she straddled a gate midair, landed heavily on her right side, crashed her head against her left arm, and ended up sliding face first.
But they surely never anticipated that eventually, many politically charged and contestable questions — for example, whether the Constitution guarantees the right to possess guns, to have an abortion, to allow gay couples to marry, or to allow corporations to spend money to help elect our political representatives — would be decided by one unelected justice who straddled political voting blocs on the court.
Unlike other far right personalities like now-deplatformed Milo Yiannopoulos, who's largely disappeared from influence and relevance because his schtick was repeatedly (and successfully) poking platforms and people to see if they'd snap back, Benjamin has straddled a blurry line of authority that's given him a chance to cash in cultural power from the internet, to a potential seat in parliament.
Ms. Mendelsohn's lyrical first novel, "I Was Amelia Earhart," gracefully straddled reality and the world of fable with a fiercely imagined portrait of the missing aviator, while assiduously avoiding the more outrageous speculation that swirled around her (for instance, that she was on a spying mission for the United States government or that she returned to America after World War II and assumed a new identity).
Her earlier work, from the 1990s and continuing into the next decade, was an unrelenting confrontation with the human body, mostly female, parts and all: intestines made from iron affixed to the wall like a radiator; a bronze of a girl being straddled by a goat, a papier-mâché torso with breasts like empty dry-cleaning bags; a full-size woman in wax, skin partly flayed.
First coined by Elaine de Kooning and used by Lawrence Alloway in 1958 for an exhibition of the same name featuring Milton Resnick, Philip Guston, Sam Francis, Richard Pousette-Dart, and Jean-Paul Riopelle (who, born in Québec but living in Paris, straddled the great cultural divide), Abstract Impressionism would infuse Abstract Expressionism with elements of the landscape in an esthetic program quite similar to French Non-Figuration.
No British man had won the tournament since Fred Perry in 22014, and only four British women — Kitty McKane Godfree (22013, '277), Dorothy Round (773, '277), Mortimer (240) and Ann Haydon Jones (21986) — had won since the tournament was opened to non-Britons after World War I. "I was running out of chances to win," said Wade, whose career stretched across 26 years and straddled the amateur and professional eras.
" The list of men now gone from public broadcasting after being accused of harassment also includes Michael Oreskes, a former editor at The Times who was NPR's top news executive; David Sweeney, NPR's chief news editor; Daniel Zwerdling, an NPR investigative reporter; and Charlie Rose, who straddled commercial and noncommercial television as PBS's marquee talk-show host and, on CBS, a host on "CBS This Morning" and a correspondent on "60 Minutes.
In quick succession, audiences will gorge on such memorable looks as the metallic handlebar headdress and sci-fi bikini from the cover of Cher's 1979 "Take Me Home" album; the seatbelt, mesh and garters in which she straddled an aircraft-carrier cannon in the video for her 1989 hit, "If I Could Turn Back Time"; and the wittingly tacky tiger-striped unitard (with one black bra strap showing) that she wore as her most famous comic character, the launderette-lingering cutup Laverne Lashinsky, on her various TV variety shows in the 1970s.
And what started with the Surface computer five years ago, a computer that straddled the line between tablet and ultra-portable, has culminated in this, the Surface Laptop, Microsoft's first true clamshell computer, which Microsoft unveiled on Tuesday in New York City (along with the education-friendly Windows 10 S). Like all the Surface computers that have come before it – Surface Pro, Surface Book, Surface Studio – the $999 Surface Laptop seeks to redefine a category with brash and unusual design choices, like a 3.6 mm-thin touch screen and a fabric-covered keyboard, that combine to make the portable more, not less, functional.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, prosecutors will likely call Janice Dickinson, a model who said Cosby drugged and raped her in Lake Tahoe in 1982; Heidi Thomas, who said when she was 24, Cosby drugged her and tried to force her into oral sex in Reno, Nevada, in 1984; Janice Backer Kinney, who alleges Cosby drugged and assaulted her in 1982, when she was 24; Lise Lotte-Lublin, who said that in Las Vegas in 1989, Cosby gave her shots and straddled her on a table before she blacked out; and Chelan Lasha, who met Cosby in Las Vegas in 20173 as a 17-year-old, where he gave her a blue pill and shots.

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