• Not that this matters much, as "The Audience, " at London's Gielgud Theatre, is a vehicle for the country's favorite actress, Helen Mirren, and also for the designer, Bob Crowley, who wows us with his replicas of the infinitely receding columns of Buckingham Palace and a sitting-room in the queen's Scottish castle, Balmoral.

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  • It was she who found her dead son, sitting in a living-room chair.

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  • In all his natural glory, the gentleman was strolling around in what looked like a sitting room complete with fireplace, unlike any locker-room I had ever seen.

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  • Mr. Graves and I were sitting in the glass-roofed room just off his kitchen, which boasted an Alessi kettle, toaster, tray, cream set and pitcher a kind of Michael Graves product show.

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  • The center is family-oriented, providing a private sitting room and bedroom for parents and patient to use during the child's hospital stay.

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  • There is even an enormous group photograph - featuring members of both her family and relatives of husband Michael Douglas - dominating the wall of another sitting room.

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  • The president and first lady Laura Bush watched the results with family friends and senior staffers in the West Sitting Hall -- the first family's living room in the White House residence.

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  • In one experiment, undergraduates came up with nearly 25% more connections between different sports, such as chess and basketball, when sitting in a loft-like space than in a room with an 8-foot ceiling.

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  • Even as U.S. investors grow more bullish, pushing the major benchmarks toward record highs, "we still have this 1, 200-pound gorilla sitting in the corner of the room, and that's Europe, " said Michael Shea, managing partner at Direct Access Partners.

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  • The one-room building contained a table with a porcelain top and a hide-bottomed chair, both sitting under an unfrosted light bulb hanging from the ceiling on a long cord, and Obie went in and scraped dust and fallen dirt-dauber nests off the table with the side of his hand.

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  • We're sitting in a side room off the lobby of his high-rise overlooking the Hudson River.

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  • When I walked into her room a half-hour later, she was sitting on her bed flipping through a picture book.

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  • Sitting in the room, the message you felt from the seven-time Cy Young Award winner was pure resentment at being there at all.

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  • However, if you looked around the room that day, the 100-plus women sitting there were all polished, well-spoken professionals who were not at all shy about speaking up.

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  • But what if, instead, you could get that life-saving drug by slapping on a patch while sitting in your living room watching TV?

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  • Louboutin was sitting in the central room of his design offices, in a two-story building that one enters through a courtyard hidden from the street.

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  • De Preist is sitting in a wheel chair at the back of the room as 21-year-old Sean is up on the podium, doing all he can to manage the large orchestra at his fingertips.

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  • Take a dip in the poolside sauna, then, when you're ready for bed, retreat to your quaint room complete with a queen-size bed, sitting area, flat-screen HDTV and wireless Internet.

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  • Before every test begins, the proctor asks the test taker to pan the room with their web camera, said Jarrod Morgan, a vice president at Proctor U. During that sweep, proctors see all sorts of things: answers on Post-it Notes taped to the computer screen, another person sitting in the room, a second laptop open to Google.

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  • She was a regular visitor to Glamis Castle, where two rooms are named after her - the Queen Mother's Bedroom and the Queen Mother's Sitting Room.

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  • Everyone but the Queen Mother has to stand up when the Queen enters a room - even her nearest and dearest, should they ever be sitting together watching Eastenders or playing Scrabble.

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  • Inside the three-story deckhouse near the stern, Bassani figures, there will be a 2, 100-square-foot owner's cabin plus six big guest suites, each with sitting room, bedroom and bath.

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  • Sitting next to Serge Milman in Broadway's trading room is Steven Girden, 36, a former o-t-c marketmaker at Bear, Stearns' risk arbitrage desk.

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