Like the pole-climbing exercise, it's about executing a task that feels impossible but isn't.
The rope is wrapped around something like a pole, leaving two equal lengths.
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One of her minders pushes back a sound man, who returns the threat, wielding his microphone pole like a pike.
Then she grabs two ski-pole-like handles, presses a button and waits as beams of light trace over her body.
In the new procedure, the valve is created by inserting a surgical device that looks like a toy fishing pole into the mouth and snaking it down the throat to where the esophagus meets the stomach.
We are governed by a pile of institutions sitting on top of each other, like faces in a totem pole .
People who drink chili out of Denver Bronco cup-holders and pray to Dustin Pedroia Fatheads suddenly become absorbed in tiny Olympic events like shooting and curling and pole-vaulting, despite knowing almost nothing about shooting and curling and pole-vaulting.
Julian drove into town and bought an electric heater, but under the fifteen-foot ceilings the device was like a spark at the North Pole.
When they got to the chaise longue, Arianda spent a long time playing with the heavy piece of furniture, at first leaning against it like a cat on a scratching pole, then kicking and pushing the cumbersome prop until it was properly angled.
"I think you have to look at someone like, maybe Michael, getting the pole position, " Hembery told F1's official website.
My guide, Boikago Wandumbi, paddled he and I out, standing in the back of the canoe like a Venetian gondolier, using a long pole to propel us forward.
Whenever a celebrity dons a feather and long braids for a photo shoot, or a fashion brand releases a gaudy collection of "totem pole print" tracksuits, bloggers like Metcalfe and Keene are slammed with questions about why they're offensive.
And, at a few spots around the moon's south pole, the reflections did indeed look like the sorts of echoes that would come from ice.
To be sure, this is hardly an apples-to-apples comparison, but the basic problem with a stock like Facebook is that the New Economy is a greasy pole and few players remain dominant for long.
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At one point, he tried to call the Poxley volunteer fire department, but the creosote pole that supported the telephone wire had already gone up like a torch, taking his service away.
With each failed bid, Qwest is reminding the world that MCI doesn't take it seriously, and that respected executives like Capellas don't want to touch the company with a ten-foot pole.
But just as I made my way around the pole nearest to her seat, she looked up at me, jumped up like Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter and ran off the car.
South African-born Kate Dennison looks like she should still be at school, but the 24-year-old has been a pole vaulting revelation, breaking the British record for the second time in a week on Saturday.
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