It glides hypnotically during the first Legion of Honor museum scene, then undergoes numerous metamorphoses.

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The ancient Roman poet Ovid is best known for his poem, Metamorphoses, which trumpets change and transformation.

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The French essayist Michel de Montaigne was brought up speaking Latin as his first language and as a boy read Ovid's Metamorphoses for fun.

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McIlroy signed a sponsorship deal with Oakley in December, so we can expect, nay hope, for some kind of sartorial metamorphoses in the near future.

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There was no thought that the Internet would soon transform electronic services when, after several painful metamorphoses, America Online went public on the Nasdaq in 1992.

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Researchers have struggled to keep up with its quick metamorphoses and smart spam campaigns that use attached PDFs, e-cards, and even YouTube invitations to infect users with malicious software.

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One evening it dissolves and Sid decides to re-write it from memory in effect, becoming Gould, just as Gould ultimately metamorphoses into a fish, taking Sid with him into his new element.

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In Metamorphoses, Ovid recounted many myths of transformations.

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Then Unep, or the UNEO, or whatever it metamorphoses into, may finally be able to make the impact envisaged in Stockholm 34 years ago, and help human societies to "...shape our actions throughout the world with a more prudent care for their environmental consequences".

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