" What follows is a text shot through with "vertiginous thrill.
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Are you able to walk across cobblestones while wearing vertiginous shoes?
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But then, just as vertiginous as its ascent, came its fall.
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But then, even more vertiginous than its ascent, came its fall.
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I couldn't have known how vertiginous the entire Huxtable project was.
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Bookshelves were everywhere — they even run up the vertiginous back staircase.
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The fans worked their way down vertiginous steps toward the exit.
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Few details are available about the police officers' alleged vertiginous voyeurism.
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The horror scenes in "The Incest Diary" make a vertiginous pile.
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The story emphasizes the vertiginous loss of control patients' families experience.
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As they have since the 19th century, rock climbers scale vertiginous crags.
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She incarnated America's collective hallucination and corruption, its vertiginous loss of bearings.
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Violent crime, he notes, often exists in vertiginous proximity to ordinary life.
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The elevator, they hope, will keep the vertiginous house accessible to everyone.
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It has been one of the most vertiginous climbs in WTA history.
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Although aerial perspectives typically connote imperial authority, here the effect is vertiginous.
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Economic growth and technological innovation allowed them to reach new and vertiginous heights.
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Another highlight: their spiral sprint down a triangular staircase, which felt truly vertiginous.
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In this way, Topgolf hope to reverse the vertiginous dropoff in their sport.
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"L'Rain," her debut album, can sometimes get lost in its own vertiginous swirl.
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The four years of the playoff have featured particularly vertiginous ups and downs.
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Across the Middle East, the political kaleidoscope is spinning at a vertiginous speed.
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The powerful thrust of the diagonal carpet infuses the room with a vertiginous perspective.
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Growth was already slowing early last year when share prices raced to vertiginous heights.
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The music is at once grand, vertiginous and liable to disappear at any moment.
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Opinion The veteran pols on either side of the vituperative, vertiginous Brexit debate spar.
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But the vertiginous prices of housing in California show how difficult that will be.
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Hadid completed her look with fishnets, a sky-high half-ponytail, and equally vertiginous heels.
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Ms. Babineaux took the stage last, a slash of fuchsia lipstick matching her vertiginous heels.
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I felt a heady and vertiginous freedom, as if I were passing through the mirror
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And there are two unexpected accessories (along with her usual vertiginous black patent leather Louboutins).
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A company accustomed to vertiginous growth for its entire life does not easily shift gears.
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It's offering King Kong, flying steel girders — and a vertiginous ride to the 102nd floor.
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I do: I've found these adroit, vertiginous performances to be crucial mood music all year.
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Questions pop out of the vertiginous twists and turns: Should marriage be a life-sentence?
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Overacting was also distracting in "Vertiginous," Mr. Forsythe's ebullient ode to ballet classicism, set to Schubert.
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That seems to be the case with General Electric (GE), which has had a vertiginous fall.
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THE past month has seen vertiginous swings in the prices of bitcoin and other crypto-currencies.
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Is it possible, in this vertiginous moment, for a novel to be both timely and deep?
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These fluid arrangements blurred private spaces into communal ones and mashed narrow passageways against vertiginous expanses.
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A staircase extended from wing to wing, and at center stage there was a vertiginous platform.
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IT HAS been another week of vertiginous swings in the prices of bitcoin and other crypto-currencies.
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Dollar General intends to continue its vertiginous expansion, with plans to open another 900 shops this year.
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Boring, but also extremely popular: McCurry's photographs adorn calendars and books, and command vertiginous prices at auction.
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The picturesque route crosses the tropical northern Andes, with a series of sharp bends and vertiginous drops.
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This vertiginous view is centered, again, on an overcast sky (or at dusk) seen through a windshield.
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The sheer existence — and vertiginous decline — of the Jeremy Renner Official app is weird and inexplicably hilarious.
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It was an instant, vertiginous step back, about a thousand years, toward other lives and broader questions.
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And yet these zip-up ankle boots are just as sexy as one of her many vertiginous designs.
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Maar's "Le Simulateur" (1936) is a vertiginous vision of young boy bending backward in a curving Gothic chamber.
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Patrick's general election victory was almost taken for granted after that vertiginous ascent, but it was historic nonetheless.
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Like the proverbial madeleine, a scent or a gesture recurs and opens up vertiginous worlds that seemed forgotten.
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Rio has long been troubled by vertiginous crime levels, with over 2000,200 homicides in the city in 2015.
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Rio has long been troubled by vertiginous crime levels, with over 1,200 homicides in the city in 2015.
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Here are the sticking points that could scupper the deal and lead to a vertiginous "no deal" Brexit.
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It is also an ideal viewing platform, where any vantage point offers vertiginous views of the stately monolith.
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The vertiginous Duge Beipan River Bridge, the world's highest, vaults a 1,853-foot-deep chasm in southwest China.
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Captured on both an iPhone and in 2165mm, together they create a vertiginous journey through time, space and psyche.
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For many Londoners, waking up on the wrong side of an almighty national decision was a vertiginous, disorienting feeling.
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Although "Magdalene" isn't quite as vertiginous as "LP1" was, there's still scarce solid ground in an FKA twigs song.
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I asked the senior official, who is working on Brexit, whether the current moment seemed more vertiginous than usual.
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His tilting, vertiginous pictures are taken from the cockpit of an army helicopter hunting alien visitors to the city.
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Given our vertiginous style of politics there is still time for some unexpected development, some last-minute midterm twist.
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Built on a steep-sided canyon high in the Andes, the city is all vertiginous roads and hairpin bends.
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We drove there on Bhutan's single east-west highway, which twists along vertiginous cliffs, cresting passes 10,000 feet high.
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With women in towering shoes so vertiginous their legs shook as they minced, ever so slowly, around the room.
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There might not be any big revolution, but there will be slow, steady progress, not this vertiginous lurching about.
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Along the Tourmalet ridge, thousands sat in a vertiginous and flowered meadow, as if in a natural IMAX theater.
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Rao thinks the vertiginous ride on Chinese stocks has been just the education he needed to achieve that goal.
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" From this, the narrator constructs the novel: "Now, in this moment, I feel that vertiginous thrill course through me.
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With its vertiginous spiral of fakery, the invented but plausible scene captures the essence of Russia's hybrid onslaught against Ukraine.
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All of it strains credulity and makes reading the biography, at times, as vertiginous as listening to a Cooper broadcast.
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Or the Caprese salads of the 1980s, served in vertical stacks, maybe to mimic the vertiginous ambitions of Wall Street.
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The vertiginous odds that control these lives, in Kenneally's telling, have everything to do with the specific history of place.
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The chords, performed in unison by an ensemble including electric guitar, drum kit and cello, are surrounded by vertiginous breaks.
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One reason for this vertiginous decline has to do with a change in how and when kids learned to program.
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There is a vertiginous sense that reality itself, not just politics, is contested, up for grabs, and to be formed anew.
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And in Tesla's case, those rumors have propelled stock prices to vertiginous levels that might have nowhere to go but down.
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Here, seven bright, high-ceilinged suites decorated with midcentury Danish furniture and claw-foot baths fan off a vertiginous winding staircase.
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I would sometimes glance over the rail for a quick and vertiginous view of our destination: the empty museum floor below.
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"I was in a highly vertiginous state in my life at the time, and Inside Sports was absolutely great," Ford says.
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Outside, on the rain-slicked cobbles near the Palais Royal, models tottered past in vertiginous heels as the locals looked on.
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For 35 to 60 euros per night (about $40 to $53), you can rent a room featuring a vertiginous railed balcony.
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One house we passed had been raised to a particularly vertiginous height; Simoneaux estimated that its pilings were thirty feet tall.
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As you scout around the interior — a vertiginous, but also wonderful experience — you find that there is always more to discover.
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I recommend the business world: For that vertiginous feeling of riding a roller coaster, the stock market is better than ever.
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Vertiginous platforms are not exactly a new footwear trend, but in Milan the appetite for serious elevation has reached new heights.
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He made a vertiginous climb in a hurry: from 763rd to 40th in a year with his precociously polished power game.
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But if Nugnes and Fattori were shocked to become elected members of government, the next few years would be even more vertiginous.
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That's what the show so far fails to convey: Lyra's fierce embrace of the liberating—and vertiginous—power of thinking for herself.
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Mr Kato traced his failures in life in part to his vertiginous descent, aged 25, into the insecure world of temporary employment.
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He was Matthew Caws, a New Yorker with a jangly rock band, Nada Surf, who was navigating the vertiginous trajectory of fame.
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In that vertiginous instant, Jackson falls for her, and we foresee, with a shiver of premonition, that the world will follow suit.
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Everyone knows that we live in a time of constant acceleration, of vertiginous change, of transformation or looming disaster everywhere you look.
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Everyone knows that we live in a time of constant acceleration, of vertiginous change, of transformation or looming disaster everywhere you look.
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The space, only 30 feet in diameter, is intimate, like a thrillingly vertiginous pilot house more than 1,200 feet above the city.
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This is a vertiginous, potentially terrifying notion that may help explain the appeal of religious dogma or even a life of crime.
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On Chinese maps, it is in the far west of Sichuan Province, across the Cho La, a vertiginous pass at 16,600 feet.
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It seems they've been replaced, improbably perhaps, by mothers, if this vertiginous pile of memoirs and novels on my desk is any indication.
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What gives this work its distinctive impact, though, is the vertiginous views it affords of the roiling, impenetrable depths that always lie below.
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From its base, Slide Hill is just the least bit vertiginous at 40 feet, with four shiny metal tongues wagging their way down.
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In her mighty cry of " Lachte "—"I laughed"—she landed the vertiginous descent from high B to low C-sharp with athletic precision.
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What results is a species of kitchen surrealism that adds up to more than mere formal cleverness; its effect on us is vertiginous.
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Hence the vertiginous, two-mile drop from Telescope Peak, the highest of the Panamints, to Badwater Basin, the low point of the valley.
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This season, Rick Owens built a vertiginous scaffolded catwalk along the facade of the Palais de Tokyo museum (where he usually shows inside).
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In keeping with the avian theme, the movie abounds in swooping, sometimes vertiginous aerial shots, most of them captured by drone-mounted cameras.
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Not all the stories in this collection are as vertiginous as the two I've mentioned here, but they're all well crafted and energized.
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Chen has had a vertiginous ascent, and he said he struggled to sleep on Wednesday night, the eve of his world championships debut.
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Saturday's practice flight with a cast of only 700 birds — by turns vertiginous, majestic and faintly terrifying — evoked a series of alternate universes.
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No sooner had the Iowa results come in than the two men switched places — a vertiginous plunge for Trump, a leap upward for Rubio.
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If bitcoin buyers were serious about its potential functionality, they would be devastated by the recent vertiginous price increases – a doubling in three months.
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Now Trump's vertiginous reign and policies on climate, guns and trade may have inspired the pragmatic Michael Bloomberg to step up as his opposite.
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Now Trump's vertiginous reign and policies on climate, guns and trade may have inspired the pragmatic Michael Bloomberg to step up as his opposite.
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The inspiration behind the explosively colorful, vertiginous style: Lana Wachowski, the transgender film director whom the designer cast in his spring 2016 ad campaign.
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In this part of the Cordilleras, only the poorest resort to farming the vertiginous slopes, their crops cascading like waterfalls down the sheer gradient.
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The apartment, which they have rented since 21960, has lofty ceilings and a vertiginous terrace, towering above farm-to-table restaurants and picturesque brownstones.
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Ms. Mearns relishes hers, tossing off vertiginous turns, while Mr. Garcia, a revelation here, seems more troubled and introspective, allowing himself a poignant vulnerability.
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It is a political and personal memoir that negotiates that vertiginous distance that exists between what America is and what it thinks of itself.
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"Climax," with its hallucinatory, often horrific images, its relentless, bass-heavy music and its vertiginous camera movements, assaults the senses and scrambles the brain.
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The setting and its drama — a drama of vertiginous darkness and theatrical lighting — emphasize the environment more than the numerous small-scaled people present.
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The menu ($10.50 to $12) is divided between house-composed "signature works" and a vertiginous list of build-it-yourself options, not all self-explanatory.
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The program also included William Forsythe's "The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude" (1996) and the New York premiere of Crystal Pite's dystopian "Emergence," from 2009. (Mr.
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The Observatory is exactly that, an observation point from where our own safe place in the world melts under our feet, revealing a vertiginous abyss.
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They are embarrassed by their over-reliance on polls which all but guaranteed a Clinton win and are suffering from vertiginous drops in advertising revenue.
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Apostol thrusts us into a vertiginous narrative of "stories within stories within stories," as the novel itself, in one of countless meta moments, has it.
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Instead, it offers something rare in historical novels and also available in Wright's other books, the vertiginous sensation of a tilt forward into the unknown.
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It's a rare green space in a vertiginous corner of the city—and that means it sometimes becomes a place for dogs to lift their legs.
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Because this is not your average topknot, you probably can't exactly pull off that kind of vertiginous volume with a few bobby pins and some backcombing.
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Alibaba's vertiginous rise was powered by hundreds of millions of increasingly well-off Chinese coming online, and helped along by a dearth of well-established incumbents.
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Set in a lilting 3/4 time signature, this languorous, meandering theme perfectly captures the vertiginous state of suspended animation that often accompanies falling in love.
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In this sweeping, slightly-vertiginous tour of miniature worlds, an artist who's worked on Dreamworks films shows us what playing God in virtual reality can do.
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But whereas rocky crags, treacherous cornices, thin air, and wildly fluctuating temperatures are common to most vertiginous snow-clad peaks, Everest's troubles are partly man-made.
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He has taken on more vertiginous levels of debt in the past when he bought Vodafone's Japanese subsidiary in 2006, and paid off the debt early.
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Their sons, meanwhile, had other plans — Caio, now 8, and Lucas, 4, used the empty 403-square-foot expanse of concrete pavers as a vertiginous playroom.
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This looks entirely Tharpian; the traditional lexicon of ballet is seamlessly extended — with slides on flat feet, boogying moves, through-the-body shimmies and vertiginous plunges.
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The blood bath consolidated the vertiginous rise of General Hamdan, widely known as Hemeti, who by most reckonings is now the de facto ruler of Sudan.
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The U.S., in an effort to oust Mr. Maduro, has imposed harsh oil sanctions that economists worry could unravel a Venezuelan economy already in vertiginous decline.
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Robert Ryman, one of the most revered artists of his generation, takes painting to places where the air is thin and the view can be vertiginous.
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The result — a covers record riddled with the flubs and inventions of forgetfulness — was a jumble of intricate syncopations, vertiginous time changes and splintery guitar work.
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For nearly 5,000 miles, they rolled through some of South America's most spectacular landscapes, including the vertiginous Andean mountain range and the world's driest desert in Chile.
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"Edmund de Waal admired them when he came to dinner," says Rogers of the ceramicist's handiwork, as she scales a ladder to reach a vertiginous kitchen cupboard.
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Some fill the room with vertiginous movement, with spinning limbs and whipping hair that turn their practice room into an Abstract Expressionist canvas of slashing, swooping lines.
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Crossing a vertiginous balcony, levitated high above the garden, they negotiated the third of three separate reception areas, which in turn gave onto an enormous secretarial antechamber.
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The other staff members teeter by on vertiginous rhinestone-encrusted platform stilettos while a pair of South Korean businessmen—the only other patrons—knock back Singha beers.
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Under a sparse canopy of trees, Rose G., 18 — deemed a "Fair Kid" for having attended since age 3 — swung her hula hoop in a vertiginous orbit.
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Anohni trades the chamber-pop of Antony and the Johnstons for caustic, arresting electronica — veering between stark and vertiginous — produced with Hudson Hawke and Oneohtrix Point Never.
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Once Trump became a Twitter addict, this morphed into an incestuous, vertiginous spiral, as he got upset and shot back against news reports he did not like.
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A single-story, 100-meter-long gallery oriented to frame the sun at dawn on the summer solstice balances over a vertiginous hill dotted with tangerine trees.
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The smaller one, known as the Garisenda, leans at a vertiginous four-degree angle—a tilt as great as that of its better-known cousin in Pisa.
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Years after Chomsky's book first sent him reeling with the vertiginous power of its transgressive political ideas, Swartz was surer than ever that systems existed to be overturned.
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Over drinks, she relayed to me the vertiginous feeling of looking out the plane window and realizing, I'm being flown to New York because I'm a satanic activist.
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One such place is the Owyhee basin of eastern Oregon, a remote landscape of wild rivers and vertiginous cliffs, and high desert edged with red and pink rocks.
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I've seen a blue Cubs cap perched upon the vertiginous Afro of José Cardenal, who once missed a game because, he said later, his eyelid was stuck open.
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" Ms. Smith also performed the thrilling "Dancing Barefoot," a portrait of falling into vertiginous love, from her 1979 album "Wave," with its explosive insistence on the word "She.
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These include "The Barque of Dante" (his first Salon submission) and the enormous "Death of Sardanapalus," that vertiginous tilt of mayhem and pink whose violence caused an outcry.
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As fraught as knowledge can be — and both of Jan's quests resulted in vertiginous knowledge — she feels empowered by them to shape the future outcomes of her findings.
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This vertiginous giant terrarium was the next best thing, and finds Feist back on the campaign trail promoting her fourth album, Pleasure (due out next Friday, April 28).
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The story of Asian-Americans is the story of being marooned between vertiginous aspiration and compensatory diligence, between being probationary Americans at best and perennial aliens at worst.
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We had by then spent two vertiginous, elongated, atemporal weeks in the I.C.U. At no point during that time did we have a diagnosis, still less a prognosis.
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"Sure, it can be draining," he said of such efforts, offering a muscular tattooed forearm for me to grab on to as I crept around the vertiginous ridge.
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By what circuitous and vertiginous yet (seemingly) inevitable course did they travel from that moment to this, the chastened wife retreating from the husband's expression of veiled triumph?
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"This was a forest when I first arrived," said Arafa Begum, 40, who lives with her three children in a shack on a barren, vertiginous slope in Chakmakul camp.
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And Echo and the Bunnymen were skinny, clean shaven malcontents with vertiginous, backcombed hair dos, singing abstract nonsense about bringing dancing horses to the party "headless and all alone".
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Meru makes the difficulties of the feat easy for non-climbers to understand, while combining vertiginous first-person footage and engaging personal stories of these men and their families.
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New York State's Hudson Valley offered us everything we needed: vertiginous mountains, cheap land, and proximity to NYC should Bikini Kill ever reform, and I'd need to see them.
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Like Bernie Sanders, his populism has fed on stagnation and diminished expectations, not panic or collapse: Its success is the fruit of an unsatisfying stability, not a vertiginous decline.
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Her voice is airy and nonchalantly assured as it glides through meshes of percussion, programming and syncopated guitars — productions that carry hints of Brazilian tradition into vertiginous electronic spaces.
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Really, though, the narrative history of popular music tends to narrow with distance, regardless of how many tens of millions of albums you've sold or how vertiginous your fame.
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Though the transition from Obama's America to Trump's is vertiginous, and understandably baffling to casual (much less foreign) observers, it doesn't reflect some huge, sudden shift in the country.
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A difficult, beautiful, vertiginous, fortifying and enlivening piece of work that somehow makes the contemporary world, with all its horrors, seem worth being born into and living in, together.
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From her laptop, she deployed percussion samples in meticulous fusillades, often in breakneck six-beat rhythms that were scattered across the stereo field to make things even more vertiginous.
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And to our delight, fashion enthusiasts traded in their vertiginous heels for comfy sneakers, stepping out in limited edition shoes by Sacai X Nike and classic Converse All Stars.
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The $165 million, four-year renovation of the city's first "supertall" skyscraper is ultimately intended to ease lines and crowds as people make their way to its vertiginous observatories.
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Even more than Ang Lee's fine 1995 film of "Sense and Sensibility," this version captures the vertiginous apprehensions that lie within a seemingly quiet novel about the rewards of resignation.
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This could be steady or vertiginous, depending on how markets see things; it could also start well before no-deal day, perhaps increasing Britain's appetite for last minute stop-gaps.
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As the collision on that Rio road illustrates, the lives of billionaires allow Mr Cuadros to explore Brazil's vertiginous social and financial inequality, much of it closely aligned with race.
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But by Tuesday, as China's state-controlled media specifically noted that there was "no confirmation from Beijing" about parts of Trump's claims, stock markets fell into a vertiginous downward spiral.
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Blockchain has been top of mind for many recently given the vertiginous growth of certain cryptocurrencies, such as ethereum, which has swelled in value by over 5,000 percent during 2017.
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Well, it's pro-environment and very keen on fairness, but less keen on altogether abandoning a vertiginous economic order, which means that tickets to gigs like this are super expensive.
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LIVERPOOL, England — It seemed to start in the far corner of Anfield's vertiginous Main Stand, at the point where the top tier joins the Anfield Road End and the sky.
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Then why should it matter that Orringer's vertiginous unscrollings of event and intent, unfolding in the south of France in the very pit of Vichy brutality, are chiefly her own?
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There is a vertiginous quality to this work that may leave some viewers feeling a little seasick; my eyes needed time to adjust to Lapin's disjunctive pictures and competing horizons.
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Because Mr. Pluta was responsible for much of the vertiginous quality of these arrangements, refracting and spinning samples through a multispeaker mix, the live playing needed to be suitably crisp.
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With "Sketches of Christ Child and Virgin" (circa 1495–1500) Michelangelo has me look even deeper into vertiginous possibilities and improbabilities, and the effort seemed to strengthen my powers of imagination.
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You are so accustomed to vehicles on wheels that the freedom from the tyranny of the earth, the absence of the sensation of ground against tires, feels almost vertiginous, like weightlessness.
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At twenty-five, he will represent Laos in cycling at the 2016 Summer Games by competing in Rio's exceptionally arduous road race, a serpentine 256.6-kilometer circuit full of vertiginous climbs.
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Today, an expansive web of cable cars will take you from the elevated metro line up the vertiginous mountain walls, at a safe, respectable distance from the zinc-roofed slums below.
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And as deliriously vertiginous as the series' improbable third season revival has been, it's just as fun to imagine the twisted interactive forms its inspirational appendages might take down the road.
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But I'd read about the trail — a doorstep to the lush, vertiginous, sunstruck vastness of the North Dakota Badlands, which Theodore Roosevelt called "a place of grim beauty" — and was sold.
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Before we start to climb an improvised footpath worn into the rocky seaside embankment toward the isolated bays behind Tamariu with their vertiginous views of themselves, the sea, and little else.
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The new generation of residential towers, rising in their vertiginous narrowness and affordable to only the elect, are the symbols of our time: the wealthy giving the finger to the city.
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It's a reminder that, however gravity-defying his subjects seem, however audacious, there is always somewhere nearby an unseen presence in a similarly vertiginous situation, maneuvering a kilo of camera kit.
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Ever since, she has set up basic parameters about the palette and shape of her canvases and then embraced the serendipitous results of throwing, drizzling and streaming paint from vertiginous heights.
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Most of that price difference, he said, can be attributed to the higher floors in today's vertiginous skyscrapers, which command a premium for each additional story that rises into the sky.
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Take a step back and appreciate the vertiginous absurdity of the fact that our military is now being mobilized to defend our border from a walking caravan of refugees from Central America.
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Quebec was a bastion of French Catholicism (now in vertiginous decline); Scottish Presbyterianism made its mark on the ethos of Toronto; and Alberta had an evangelical Christian subculture (along with many others).
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The day's clifftop Great Orme stage had to be canceled due to "rough sea conditions", with organizers explaining that divers could not be deployed on a safety boat below the vertiginous drop.
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From there, the story spins out into a vertiginous mess of double-crossing real estate deals, within the span of which Abbie goes from prophet to glad-handing schemer to outright crook.
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UK assets: After a vertiginous ascent to record highs just below $5,12.83 early in the month, bitcoin plunged as much as 40 percent in the 12 following days, dipping below $3,000 on Friday.
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In this rendition of "Valerie", Amy minces around on her vertiginous toenails so endearingly that you can almost ignore Mark Ronson using one of those two necked guitars that are smugger than dolphins.
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The movie isn't as well known as the Reed-Greene collaboration that followed ("The Third Man," from 1949, showing Sunday), but its vertiginous black-and-white cinematography is every bit that movie's equal.
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The Houston Ballet will show "Artifact Suite" (2004); Pacific Northwest Ballet will dance "The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude" (1996); and San Francisco Ballet will perform "Pas/Parts 2016," recently reworked for that company.
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The sunset provision is budget flimflammery that sets up a vertiginous fiscal cliff; the mandate repeal probably requires an unlikely bank-shot deal with Democrats on stabilizing the Obamacare exchanges to be nondisastrous.
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The fact that bankers cut the amount of shares offered and reduced the price from the indicated range, yet the stock still suffered a vertiginous drop, could simply indicate they got demand wrong.
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But at the top is the magnificent Villa San Michele, now a museum with a cafe supporting vertiginous rooftop views of the Bay of Naples and the port of Capri 1,000 feet below.
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On the island of Ischia, near Naples, stands a fortress, a formidable set of battlements and turrets that seem to shoot out of sheer rock, with a vertiginous drop to the sea below.
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Together with Mr. Forsythe's hyperkinetic "Vertiginous," a virtuoso "Tarantella" (with Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé), and Mr. Wheeldon's much-improved "Strapless" (with a riveting Natalia Osipova), it's a superior evening at the ballet.
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At the same time, the ridged lines and vibrant shapes established a continuum connecting the tactile to the hallucinatory, a material state of things to a state of seeing that approaches the vertiginous.
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Here, it's filtered through singer-guitarist Brandon Hagen's experience with the mental and physical deterioration of a loved one, and the vertiginous loss of innocence that threatened to bring him down in its wake.
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This is the sad, predictable result of Venezuela's failed policies under Maduro, also stoked by US economic sanctions that have further squeezed Venezuela's oil production and helped to push the country into vertiginous collapse.
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He painted landscapes that are as vertiginous, to the brink of formlessness, as anything in art to this day: tornadoes of pigment, which are beloved by every painter I've ever talked with about them.
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The sense of scale and the vertiginous heights and depths felt when exploring outer space, or the ocean floor, or an icy mountain range, are not comparable to anything on a two-dimensional screen.
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In Michael Thalheimer's vertiginous and visceral production at the Berliner Ensemble, we feel Blanche's unease and shock at encountering her sister Stella and her husband Stanley Kowalski in their sultry, squalid New Orleans digs.
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There is a graceful, elegantly lighted staircase at the NoMad in the hotel of the same name, and a vertiginous, coal-cellar-steep one at Narcissa in the Standard hotel in the East Village.
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Sitting on the opposite end of the generational divide, Schiele, who injected his self-portrait drawings with grotesque, even freakish distortions and crammed his paintings with densely rendered, vertiginous forms, appeared hellbent on destroying it.
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On the wild, 2500-minute roller coaster that is "Planet Swajjur," his inputs are video-game circus chirps, vertiginous alarm peals, flatulent bass slaps that sound like they're stuck to the ground and so on.
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Touching on everything from race and class to single-payer health care, this bracing exercise in unvarnished honesty is a nervy tightrope act that feels as vertiginous as its protagonist's own madcap journey to clarity.
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Then there's the State Bank of India's vertiginous "What is the website that you rarely visit?" which reads like a Zen koan whose purpose is to make you reflect on the unknowability of the answer.
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The American debut of the Grenoble-born acrobat and his production Minuit ("midnight," en français) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) this past weekend was an elegant and often astounding series of vertiginous vignettes.
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But don't let the top of the ticket's vertiginous drama distract you from the down-ballot judgments that may have significantly more impact on your day-to-day life, even if they're nowhere near as wild.
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Always, his materials lend geometric punctuation, gracefully framing rooms, drawing the eye to original details as well as to his own massive, near-circular windows and doors, vaulted ceilings, gashes of natural light and vertiginous stairs.
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When I first found out my building was for sale, which was around when the wave of gentrification that now has apartment prices at vertiginous levels arrived in my Mission District neighborhood, I could not sleep.
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But for those who are, the state of fear is a vertiginous shift from the relative stability of the past few years, which have allowed many of them to get degrees, jobs, and peace of mind.
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According to The Cut: The "disability" to which she is referring is a linear tear on the tendon of her big toe, an injury that prevents her from wearing the vertiginous heels worn on most runways.
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After several unsuccessful attempts, some of which ended in crashes, he rolled down a 60-foot-tall ramp, reaching speeds up to 45 miles per hour, and launched 453 feet out of a vertiginous quarterpipe ramp.
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When Breath of the Wild 2 eventually sees release, perhaps its rolling hills and vertiginous mountains will be imbued with the same rarely felt magic as its predecessor, an outlook that feels intensely necessary right now.
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The sparse grass and rocky outcrops, the cramped rooms and vertiginous stairs speak to the men's existential condition — the hardness, confinement and downward spiraling — while (as in "The Witch") a menacing animal suggests a supernatural threat.
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In the marketplace, the Friday-night bonanza was well under way, girls in tight dresses and vertiginous heels, teetering along in noisy groups, watched by boys who pretended indifference and turned back to their mates, laughing.
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All these experiences inform "OK, Mr Field", whether through her luminous use of language, her descriptions of Cape Town or her understanding of how space can be constricting and expansive, vertiginous and comforting, at the same time.
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So whether you prefer a mule or a sling-back, a thick heel or a perfect point, it's time to cast your vertiginous stilettos to the back of your wardrobe and make way for the kitten heel.
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The country's vertiginous change, incomprehensible to both, had sparked in each a kind of magical thinking, a frantic hope that life could be transformed by a lucky break, and it was this that had brought them together.
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The observation deck planned for 30 Hudson Yards, now under construction, includes a prowlike open-air platform cantilevered over the side of the tower, a kind of reinterpretation of the vertiginous spirit of Manhattan's earliest observation decks.
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At the bottom of the track where two bright yellow funicular trains begin and end an 800-foot vertiginous trip through the Bica neighborhood, a social club and a local cafe have set up for the festival.
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In the middle of the journey of life, I found myself astray in a vast executive conference center, my pulse ramping up as it can during weekends of airports, strangers, and vertiginous hotels cold as meat lockers.
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Perhaps a little yield curve inversion is just the bond market's squeamish reaction to America's vertiginous descent into daily norms that are more consistent with a banana republic-style emerging market than the world's largest and preeminent economy.
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Along with sparkling dialogue from Grant, Arthur and renowned character actor Thomas Mitchell, "Only Angels Have Wings" captivates with dazzling air sequences featuring landings on canyon rims, vertiginous ups and downs and perilous flights through foggy mountain passes.
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The French Revolution divided the royal province into three departments — the Drôme, Isère and Hautes Alpes — and though the geography varies from fertile plains to rolling hills, to highlands and vertiginous summits, the regional identity remains distinctly Dauphinois.
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A deeper issue may be the content itself: The very stuff that people are putting in virtual worlds — dragons, vertiginous cliffs' edges, high-impact hockey games — are designed to be not just immersive, but also a little alarming.
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He had a Nobel, a Pulitzer and three National Book Awards in the bag, though his personal reputation featured a series of publicized divorces, vertiginous affairs, friendship-ending intellectual feuds and a rocky paternal record with his children.
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The painter born five centuries ago as Jacopo Robusti, later to be famous as "the dyer's son," liked to hoist the angels in his religious scenes up into strange, vertiginous positions, as if flinging them at the viewer.
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Playing simultaneously on all of them is a seven-channel, 13-minute mildly vertiginous video, taken with robotic, slowly turning cameras, showing the empty interior of Mr. Fogel's childhood home in Denver shortly before its sale and demolition.
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In this latest work, however, Yan shifts his irreverent gaze from the past to the present and toward projections of the future, taking stock of China's vertiginous economic rise and the astonishing dissolution of its collective social conscience.
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An upper-class woman would have been proud to hobble on her "flowerpot-sole shoes"—embroidered slippers on tall pedestals—and Guo pays homage to them in vertiginous chopines that are lashed to the ankles with satin ribbons.
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Yes, there are vertiginous points of uncertainty, such as when you glimpse the dry wadi a mile below, but for the most part the path is away from drops and, best of all, the trail is almost entirely flat.
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In Puerto Rico, news reporters closely followed the family's lives and the effect the vertiginous whirl of war had on them, turning their intense experiences into a proto-reality TV show something along the lines of An American Family.
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I learned many things from Ms. Le Guin in the course of that first day, which we spent drinking tea and chatting on her slightly vertiginous veranda, with its glorious view of the snowy cone of Mount St. Helens.
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In "Sailors and Sirens," from 2017, we have to parse three sizes of figures either on the tilting boat and in the swath of sea to understand the vertiginous angle of view, depth of space and the men's fixation.
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But the rhymes, the poppy English lyrics (sung by the duo Kajamba), an insistent drumbeat that draws on both dancehall and Caribbean clave, and the vertiginous push-and-pull momentum of the entire song have more tangled, modern connections.
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The vertiginous drive of bass and drums, behind a murmuring rant of two saxophonists, a bass clarinetist and a trumpeter, evoked Charles Mingus's "Haitian Fight Song," a good reference point when "the weight of rage" is on the table.
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The paintings transmit a visual sublime based in vertiginous infinity that recalls trippy trips to the Space Show in the Hayden Planetarium, Vija Celmins's charcoal drawings of twilight, and the poetic writings of Gérard de Nerval and other Romantics.
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After Chelsea's DJ-ing gig at the chic Prince Charles club, the women head over to Dr. Pong — a cave-like ping-pong bar — where they're sucked into a vertiginous paddle-slapping showdown that you'd have to see to believe.
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As I grew older, the appeal of philosophy was that it opened vantage points to stare into the vertiginous face of death, and to ponder the meaning of living in an uncertain world precariously perched on the absolute certainty of death.
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Now the Cassini spacecraft has gradually shifted into an orbit that takes it over the planet's north and south poles and then down into a series of increasingly vertiginous-looking dives perpendicular to the plane of its buttery glowing rings.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin's vertiginous ascent showed no signs of abating on Monday, with the cryptocurrency soaring to another record high just a few percent away from $10,000 after gaining more than a fifth in value over the past three days alone.
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Or listen to the vertiginous, beautiful way Yachty's Auto-Tuned voice soars into the ether on "Why (Interlude)," where he seems to be discovering not just new notes in the human-made musical pantheon but also new stars in the galaxy.
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A full-floor penthouse at the pinnacle of 432 Park Avenue, with vertiginous views of the city and beyond — something most people might get to see only from a helicopter — was bought last month by the Saudi retail magnate Fawaz Alhokair.
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And although I wouldn't stake my life on my ability to hold steady under pressure (also, I have untrustworthy ankles), I'm grateful to those who do for reminding me that we humans have something vertiginous and tenacious in our blood.
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Floor-to-ceiling windows framed an industrial wasteland spotted by neon Prada signs — a cartoon ape, hanging by one arm; a bunch of bananas; a stegosaurus — and the floor had been polished to a dark mirror, creating a vertiginous disorientation.
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Amid the Trump administration's abrupt policy shifts — the off-again, on-again threats of new tariffs on Chinese goods that have been wrenching the markets — who can be sure that the vertiginous swings of the past week are minor events?
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Michelle Goldberg In the terror-struck and vertiginous days after Donald Trump's election a year ago, as I tried to make sense of America's new reality, I called people who lived, or had lived, under authoritarianism to ask what to expect.
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I considered whether Ms. Wang's flamboyant clothes — in the first half, a floor-length purple gown with only a slash of sparkle covering her breasts; in the second, a tiny iridescent turquoise dress with vertiginous heels — were the right costume here.
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The allegory is thick and the camera movements are vertiginous in this bleak, slow-burning 1947 noir from Julien Duvivier, adapting a 1933 novel by Georges Simenon, in what plays like an unusually direct indictment of wartime anti-Semitism in France.
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Then came a play in which James spun left and then back to the right with vertiginous speed, reared back on one leg and from 19 feet shot a high arcing shot that fell through the net without a ripple.
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" Held on Thursday in the courtyard of the Palais de Tokyo, on a vertiginous three-story scaffold of ramps and stairways, Mr. Owens's show was titled "Dirt" and set to a remix of Egyptian Lover's often-sampled "I Need a Freak.
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Here, for instance, is Ms. Bündchen as a bronzed and long-limbed sexpot in a shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, clad in vertiginous platform sandals and a studded Versace bustier as she descends a ladder into an empty swimming pool.
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"As filmmakers, we wanted to use cinematic virtual reality's unique transportive power to bring audiences into a journey with President Obama where they could experience firsthand the vertiginous, lyrical, and timeless beauty of Yosemite." said Félix Lajeunesse, Co-founder of Felix & Paul Studios.
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We then set out for the local postcard attraction, the ruins of Schloss Heidelberg, best reached by a funicular tram (sit at the front of the head car on the way down for that vertiginous plunge kids can't seem to get enough of).
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Peter B. Kaplan, a photographer who captured spectacular views from vertiginous vantage points like the torch of the Statue of Liberty and the masts of the Empire State Building and the original World Trade Center, died on March 2100 in Wilmington, Del.
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"We've forgotten nothing about taking our country out of the night into which France has plunged us!" the nationalist leader Jean-Guy Talamoni threatened on Wednesday to the fervent and youthful crowd in this university town, high up in the vertiginous Corsican mountains.
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None did so more boldly than the brothers Max and Dave Fleischer—best known as the creators, in the sound era, of the "Popeye" and "Betty Boop" series—who thrilled to the vertiginous comedy of animated characters turning the tables on their creators.
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Unsurprisingly, the story of that progress is too grand a saga even for Herzog, and he prefers, in the remaining nine parts of the film, to launch a series of whimsical raids on the ironies, or the vertiginous pitfalls, of life online.
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The ride to the top aboard the Peak Tram ($11.35 round-trip, including access to Sky Terrace) also provides a glimpse of historic Hong Kong as the cars glide through quiet, shady neighborhoods on the vertiginous track built in the late 1800s.
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Because if he didn't, a down-to-earth sort like himself, not as comfortable as Mayweather or McGregor with the vertiginous perils of multi-million-dollar public self-adulation and the triumph of the surreal, could become unmoored and go flying off into the ether.
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Sinosphere HONG KONG — To buy a tiny but coveted apartment in the vertiginous towers of South Horizons, a middle-class housing development overlooking the South China Sea in the world's most expensive real estate market, would cost a family about a million United States dollars.
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His photos—of cherries in orifices and knives and forks poised above delicate areas, of nude women lying on vertiginous ledges, of genitalia placed into all manner of compromising situations—set our idea of the human body askew and celebrate the banality of sex.
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To put that vertiginous rise into perspective, Doug Woodham, managing partner of Art Fiduciary Advisers, based in New York, calculated that if the Christie's price were represented by a pile of $100 bills, it would reach up 1,616 feet, higher than the Empire State Building.
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But the topic that recurs the most is those blurred heads we saw in the beginning: us, the audience, whose faith in the artwork exists in the vertiginous borderland of what Dean terms "the membrane or the connective tissue" between an artist and her public.
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This became apparent on the afternoon I spent driving with Robinson along the causeway, a twisting roadway that hugs the U-shaped glens of the coast, the Irish Sea on one side and villages and vertiginous green hillsides, strewn with sheep, on the other.
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HONG KONG — Michael Wolf, a photographer who was known for his vertiginous depictions of rainbow-hued skyscrapers in Hong Kong as well as the minutiae of everyday life there, died on Thursday at his home in Cheung Chau, an outlying island near the city.
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Officials at Japan Post, which runs more than 23,22 post offices across the country, said the Mount Fuji branch collected about 2000 million yen, or nearly $234,000, in revenue last year, but declined to say how much it costs to service this vertiginous route.
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Some are snapshots of everyday life, like "At the Intersection of Eddy Road and St. Clair Avenue" (1997), which offers a bird's-eye, almost vertiginous view of that crossroads on Cleveland's east side, where, because of segregation, the city's black residents have historically been confined.
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And — just as vertiginous, in its way — experimental fiction, with Olivia Laing's "Crudo," a slender novel at once autobiographical and biographical that borrows liberally from the life of the counterculture icon Kathy Acker to draw searching and plangent contrasts between the domestic and the wild.
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Were Mr. Anaya to win, it would crown a vertiginous rise to the top of the Mexican political firmament, a climb driven by a consummate political savvy — some say genius — and a ruthlessness that has stunned even the most seasoned political operatives in Mexico.
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At the back of the apartment, in the hallway that leads to the bedrooms, stands a Scarpa trademark: What initially seems to be a stack of wooden cabinets turns out to be a wardrobe that doubles as a vertiginous staircase to the rooftop terrace.
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For her first solo show, in 2016 at London's Josh Lilley gallery, she presented the sculpture "Bacchante (Tall White)" (2016), a cascade of concrete grapes the size of balloons balanced on a vertiginous marble column that subtly undermined the mythic gravity of the piece.
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In "Contemporary Innovators," Mr. Boal pays homage to William Forsythe, whose "The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude" (1996), a ballet set to Schubert, will be performed alongside works by two of Mr. Forsythe's former dancers: David Dawson ("A Million Kisses to My Skin") and Crystal Pite ("Emergence").
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The first thing anyone says about Spider-Man is that it makes you feel like Spider-Man, which is to say it captures the vertiginous thrill of leaping off a tall building, only to catch yourself at the last moment with a web slung from the wrist.
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Hunan province has a thing for glass structures, having recently opened the world's highest and longest glass bridge (the bridge had to be closed for safety modifications and is soon to re-open) as well as a vertiginous glass walkway, both in the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park.
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This claim is supported with his vertiginous Orphist-Cubist works, "Discs of Newton" (450), with its roiling solidity that takes on an almost sculptural quality, and "Amorpha, Fugue in Two Colors" (456), inspired by Notre Dame's stained glass windows and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 457.
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The internet is awash with the pictures of the goggly-eyed frog and has been for years: as far back as 2015, after a user dumped over a thousand Pepes into a single vertiginous Imgur album, the community opined that the meme was mainstream, over, dead.
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She takes her readers with her on a vertiginous tour of the world, from hurling her guts out with a raging fever in South Africa to celebrating Christmas with the Obamas in Hawaii to chasing the leader of the free world through the Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar.
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Midtown Manhattan (Opening SPRING 353) Projecting 65 feet from the side of 30 Hudson Yards, a supertall on Midtown's Far West Side, the wedge-shaped Edge will remind visitors of its vertiginous position with an acrophobia-inducing glass window in the deck 1,100 feet above 10th Avenue.
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Another journalist, Mr. Herr, spun Mr. Just's account of the Five O'Clock Follies and the misprisions of the South Vietnamese government into the vertiginous, audacious, now-classic "Dispatches," a personal account of the war whose structure and language embody the absurd chaos of life in-country.
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Bitcoin has been on a tear in recent months, with a vertiginous sevenfold increase in value since the start of the year that has led to many warnings the bitcoin market - now worth well over $100 billion - has become a bubble that is about to burst.
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You have a barren peak that rises up and up to nothing more than a skinny wedge, you have a helicopter floating nearby, a cable connecting peak to chopper, Stallone dangling from the cable, and holding onto his hand—with nothing but vertiginous rocky depths below—a young woman.
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Roberto Matta's eight-food-wide "La rencontre du vitreur avec le forçat de la lumière (en hallucination première)" (22003), which greets you at the door, is one of the Chilean Surrealist's trademark vertiginous compositions, with a destabilizing diagonal shooting downward from the upper left to the lower right.
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The work, owing to the technology it makes use of, grants the viewer the ability to scan hilly vistas in any direction, and the sheer act of being able to look over your shoulder while remaining within the frame of the seamless panorama breeds an intense, vertiginous wonder.
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And modern federal buildings rightly reflect the diversity of this great nation, from the wavy blue glass of the federal courthouse in Miami to the salvaged timber planks in a federal office building in Seattle to the vertiginous white facade of a courthouse annex in Salt Lake City.
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Swapping work, even for the fondest of pals, can be tricky: There's ego involved, and the fear of rejection, not to mention logistical concerns of transport and storage; with the middleman eliminated, the rules tend to be fluid, sometimes unnervingly so, given the vertiginous stakes of the commercial art market.
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After the session, Mr. Testa noted that those effects had dovetailed nicely with some of Mr. Braxton's ideas, like the immersive sound environment of his Echo Echo Mirror House system, in which musicians sample vintage Braxton recordings while also navigating new scores, creating a vertiginous blur of past and present playing.
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Suspended there, vertiginous, a young Scottish widow named Caitriona Wallace locks eyes with a fictionalized version of Émile Nouguier, one of the two engineer-architects who had the idea of erecting a 300-meter iron tower on the Champ de Mars as the focal point of the 1889 Universal Exposition.
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Placed within the range of vertiginous possibilities and improbabilities released by the effort to end polite society, Cabaret Voltaire's mischief club took up the theme of transmigration that they perceived in non-Western systems of thought and creation, leading many avant-garde artists to study and adopt radically different types of artistic production.
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On Bandcamp, W00DY called the release a summation of her "most personal thoughts and feelings," which is potentially concerning when you consider the tracks themselves, each of which are marathons of fractured sampling, caffeinated drum programming, and rhythmic contortions vertiginous enough to make you wonder if something's off in your inner ear.
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Though she's evolved from her days of decapitated Kermit dresses and arriving in giant eggs, she hasn't abandoned her love of a vertiginous heelless platform and has recently developed a new style uniform in the form of an array of hot pants and t-shirts cropped so as to leave plenty of underboob fully exposed.
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Hong Kong's housing prices are as vertiginous as its towers, and many people struggle just to afford a mortgage — even the 30-year ones that banks increasingly offered as property prices rocketed over the past decade, said Lee Wing-tat, a former legislator and the chairman of Land Watch, a land and housing think tank.
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Nonbuffs in the audience can content themselves with a set by Anthony Lamble that utilizes movable ladders in much the same way as the far costlier Harry Potter plays across town, and one has to credit Mr. Tushaw's Joe not least for keeping on pitch while perched at some notably vertiginous heights above the stage.
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The author "takes her readers with her on a vertiginous tour of the world, from hurling her guts out with a raging fever in South Africa to celebrating Christmas with the Obamas in Hawaii to chasing the leader of the free world through the Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar," Paul Begala writes in his review.
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"It's something that we really crave," said Mr. Lara, 44, a technology consultant who also works in real estate development with Ms. Yu. But with plans to start a family — they now have two children, Evelyn, 4, and August, 1 — they weren't immune to the appeal of outdoor space and a less vertiginous lifestyle.
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For de Chirico, the style gelled in 43, during the heyday of Analytical Cubism, when he managed to fuse the dark Symbolism of Arnold Böcklin, the innocent eye of Henri Rousseau, and the radical critiques of Friedrich Nietzsche into a vision of desolate piazzas, vertiginous perspectives, and mannequin stand-ins for a soulless humanity.
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The Guggenheim extends the concept, the museum spiral unspooling in a way that can put a visitor who walks up or down the ramp in mind of strolling around a city, glimpsing strangers across the street, gazing at shop windows, deciphering snippets of passing conversation, feeling the hum of public space, marveling at the shifting, vertiginous views.
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Also one excruciating misstep: Vera Wang, returning to the runway after two years with a moody mishmash of lingerie layers (dangling garter belts, sheer corsets, camisoles, frilled tap pants), men's wear herringbones and wool and misty bordello romance, threw in shoes so acutely angled and vertiginous that her models' knees shook with the effort to remain upright.
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"Horror Stories" is an account of a life in the music industry, certainly, with managers who come and go and those vertiginous times of going from "partying in a mansion" to being "parked in a urine-soaked alley," but Phair's musical imagination, process, influences, stylistic changes and the sounds she hears in her head are conspicuously absent.
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Yet, it was not the pieced napa shearlings; the vertiginous platforms; the patched bomber jackets; the selvage denims; the padded or otherwise slim-cut overcoats with multiple pockets; or even the Kiss lightning bolts that Mr. Owens presented in a quietly masterful show — one that further cemented his own creative reputation — that mattered to this observer.
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It appears as though the art of remaining totally zen while wearing shoes that elevate you at a vertiginous angle might just have to be one of those closely guarded secrets Blake takes with her to her grave, along with how she gets her hair to look like that and how exactly to get Ryan Reynolds to fall in love with you.
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The neat way to start this story would be to recount the moment I stepped out onto Edinburgh's streets the day of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite's release in the UK. Having ridden the train through the lush lowland greens of central Scotland, I walked up from the subterranean train station only to be confronted by the vertiginous medieval buildings of the Scottish capital.
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The story began like a fairy tale offered up to the rest of the planet: the giddy opening of infinite spaces and labyrinths of intelligence; the vertiginous feeling of having all the known world within one's grasp; the joy, for those living at the edges in remote villages or peripheral nations, of gaining access to globalized methods of socialization and personal growth.
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Mine included Marcel Duchamp's "Rotoreliefs" from 1935/1965, with their spinning, vertiginous-inducing visions (similar to what Alfred Hitchcock would later use in his film, Vertigo), Simone Forti's "Striding Crawling," a Multiplex Hologram image from 1975–78, with its curling and twirling figure, Pierre Adolph Hennetier's "Les Diableries: Enfer" from 1860, and the dancing wallpaper of Peggy Weil, "313D Wallpaper" from 1976/2018.
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She did so one afternoon through the lobby of the Plaza Hotel in Midtown Manhattan (staying there is like having "a bedroom off of Bergdorf," she said), as if she owned the joint, balanced on her vertiginous Gucci stilettos, carrying a purple Chanel bag in one arm and cradling a fluffy if lethargic rescue Pomeranian named Puffy in the other.
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There has never been a better time to give Gotham a fresh look, and so I headed to the exalted altitude of New York's first supertall: the Empire State Building, which has just spent $165 million and four years meticulously revamping the experience of getting to — and appreciating — the views from its two vertiginous observatories on the 86th and 102nd floors.
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If, as some contend, Toblerone was modeled on the soaring pyramid of a mountain — the Matterhorn on the Italian-Swiss border, which is about 14,690 feet high — Poundland's bar was said to have been inspired by two less vertiginous hills in the English county of Shropshire near the border with Wales — the Ercall, at 460 feet, and the Wrekin, at 1,335 feet.
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At the Saturday night party for Tresor, the German record label with a stake in Detroit culture, I saw the old-school Detroit D.J. Claude Young play a vertiginous set, teasing the room with techno and disco records, interrupting and cutting up songs relentlessly, keeping the tempo high and ending with David Bowie's "Golden Years," weirdly accelerated to beat-match the song that came before it.
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I slept in an adorable plywood cubby on Wall Street and on the 68th floor of the tallest residential building in Jersey City, in a flashy model apartment from which you could see all the way up the Hudson River to the George Washington Bridge, a view so vertiginous I dropped to my knees and crawled into bed on my elbows, special-ops-style.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "My wife with the hair of a wood fire/ With the thoughts of heat lightning/ With the waist of an hourglass/ With the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tiger…" PARIS — With its sparking, vertiginous imagery of a very particular femme, Andre Breton's 1931 poem "Free Union" illuminates in both Surrealist and Cubist fashion what the psyche can see but the eyes cannot.
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This is just the first in a string of vertiginous revelations that Dittrich successfully threads throughout "Patient H.M." Within a few months of Emily's breakdown, the entire Scoville family had moved to Connecticut, where Emily was institutionalized and subjected to a host of the inhumane treatments used on the mentally ill in mid-20th-century America: At one point, she was submerged in a tub of cold water for hours at a time; at another, she was locked in a "copper coffin and cooked" until her temperature reached 105 degrees.
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