• Above, a curtain of glowering cloud was fat with the possibility of rain.

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  • On the way, we run into a curtain of rain.

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  • Next door to the museum, visitors pass through a curtain of bullet shells to enter a guerrilla camp, re-constructed to provide a taste of daily life during the conflict.

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  • The next-gen game engine was being shown off at GDC 2013 with a flashy new demo (seen below the break), as well as a version of its "Elemental" demo running on a PlayStation 4 dev kit (shrouded behind a curtain, of course).

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  • But while the administration has lifted a corner of the curtain to provide a sense of where spending for popular government initiatives will be increased, what's not known is what programs will have to be cut in order to fund others.

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  • There is someone else at that interrogation session: an observer, who wears a black hood and removes it to shake out a glorious curtain of reddish-gold hair.

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  • When I got up and went back to the machine, the woman bent her body over the larva, almost concealing it under a black curtain of hair.

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  • Just before bass started thumping, a projector illuminated the curtain with images of a diamond, a spade, a heart and a club, representing the four diminutive members of the musical act known as 2NE1.

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  • Downstairs, the reflected window in the half bath showed part of a brilliant curtain, beyond which lay the green grass of childhood summers.

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  • On NYLA's wide and shallow stage, outfitted for the occasion with a front curtain to give the appearance of a proscenium, and set austerely as if against a low horizon (by Akiko Iwasaki, who also designed the costumes), "Bell" unfolds more as a patchwork than as an authoritatively layered or structured presentation.

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  • With a push of a button, a curtain pulls back to reveal a stage filled with life-size dancers and musicians performing a jig.

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  • In it, he lifted at least a corner of the curtain on the secrets of his trade.

    WSJ: Keeping Time With Master Watchmakers

  • The changing room consisted of a curtain rod on the wall.

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  • It was also a symbol of hope during the cold war, a place where scientists from both sides of the iron curtain could work together on peaceful projects.

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  • Polanski used the dour north coast of Germany as a substitute for the Vineyard in winter, and the cinematographer Pawel Edelman turns the constant downpour and gloom into a beautiful, slate-colored curtain a subdued but enveloping field of lies and secrecy, impenetrable to the Ghost, who is lost among power players far too clever for him.

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  • But once the wizard was revealed as the little old man behind the curtain pushing around a bunch of buttons and knobs, the image was destroyed.

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  • So, as an alternative, it has decided to run 30-minute videos in some Super Tuesday markets that feature the former speaker talking in front of a blue curtain.

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  • The case raised a public curtain on the world of Russia's oligarchs, those who amassed massive wealth and political influence in the 1990s during the privatization of Russia following the fall of the Soviet Union.

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  • The homes were often perched on stilts at the top of a hill, overlooking a canyon, with magnificent views through curtain walls of glass.

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  • In 2009, Konarka installed a "curtain wall" to an outside section of its Florida offices as part of a pilot project.

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  • In an empty theatre, a curtain rises on an unusual kind of show: archival footage of life in the streets of Liverpool, where the director, Terence Davies (who was born in 1945), grew up, and which he both celebrates and mourns in this personal, essaylike documentary of urban reminiscences.

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  • The defeat brings the curtain down on a sensational run of results for the Catalans who, until Saturday, had amassed 55 points from a possible 57 -- Real Madrid the only team to take points off them this season with a 2-2 draw at the Nou Camp in October.

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  • In the wake of the collapse of the Iron Curtain, military engagement activities played a significant role in integrating the newly freed states of Central and Eastern Europe into the North Atlantic community.

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  • More than 80 red wax seals hang down like an exotic beaded curtain from the bottom of a 1530 petition from English parliamentarians to Pope Clement VII.

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  • Most of the greatest glass boxes were designed by Mies, who realized the potential of suspending a "glass curtain" on a steel frame as early as 1928 with his Barcelona Pavilion: Since all the support needed was provided by the metal, the architect could use walls to sculpt space, as Mies did brilliantly with a delicate balance of transparent and reflective surfaces.

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  • This recall is to apply adhesive strips to the interior roof liner to prevent it becoming loose during the deployment of side curtain airbags, which could increase the risk of cuts during a crash, the NHTSA said.

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  • For committed meditators, cultivating this wisdom of seeing clearly is at the very heart of the mindfulness meditation practice that trains us to step out from behind the curtain of our restless minds and touch life directly, getting a full, authentic measure of our experience beyond self-deception and impulsiveness.

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  • Even so, titles may not be the best starting point when selecting a mortgage originator, remember, even the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz is really just a guy behind a curtain.

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  • The aftermath of the suits has parted the curtain on the financial underpinnings of this empire--a vast network of trusts designed to minimize, if not eliminate, taxes.

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