In one pastel, Degas evoked the thrilling height of the suspended figure with sketchy indications of the building's iron framework in vivid blue, as in the painting, but he experimented briefly with the position of the feet, pushing the front leg and the pointed foot, in its decorative boot, forward to create an emphatic vertical gesture in the lower part of the image.

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The production of capital goods, in particular, shrank 16% y-o-y, a figure last seen during the height of the financial crisis.

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Reports about the "body-in-a-bag spy" describe how two experts spent days trying to figure out whether Williams, who was athletic and of medium height, could have contorted himself in such as way as to lock himself into the North Face holdall bag, with a key to the padlock inside.

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At its height, about 100, 000 barrels were produced every year, but by the year 2000, the figure had dwindled to about 10, 000.

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