And then through the door, the figure of a slender man with a long white beard and a stack of RFCs in his hands showed up.
He was also called the Son of Man, reaching back to an ancient Hebraic phrase, which had rather humbling connotations. (It was in the Book of Daniel that a visionary figure called the Son of Man came into view, in apocalyptic terms).
Called AVATAR (Automated Virtual Agent for Truth Assessments in Real-Time) and developed by the US government and the University of Arizona, an official figure (a man nicknamed Elvis) projected onto a screen conducts the interviews and can detect small changes in movement and behaviour to see if a traveller is telling the truth.
Into the lobby strode a cowboyesque figure, a man, late-fiftyish, wearing a badge in the manner of a star, lean, and, when he spoke, laconic.
The show featured White putting up-and-coming fighters through rigorous training sessions--and then fighting one another at the end of each episode until one man was crowned the champion and given a six-figure multiyear UFC contract.
This was the story of a man who wanted to completely figure out and embody what it means to be human, and just as completely figure out what computing in service of the fully-human should look like.
At 29, Robinho, a man who boasts 90 caps for Brazil and once a key figure for the likes of Real Madrid and Manchester City, now looks a shell of his former self, as evidenced by the fact that he is now usually a fixture on the substitute's bench and has made just two starts since November.
The Man of Steel sculpture - a figure sitting casually on a steel plinth - is expected to be one-and-a-half times taller than the Angel of the North.
"This is the story of a man who took a while to figure out how to live a great life, then decided he would do so by creating happiness, " he says.
The front-man of the translating team also cuts a surprising figure.
Whatever one thinks of his achievement, Mr Vidal is in many respects an exemplary figure: a model of the genteel American, an outstanding literary stylist, and a man with the unflinching courage to say what he believes, though the heavens fall.
Bedfordshire-based Scamp Theatre appears to have found an ingenious way: a Stick Man figure (and his family, of course) are moved around the stage by the three actors and their actions are well emphasised and mimicked by Mark Kane.
The lawyer described his client as a hard-working young man who had served as a father figure to his teenage sister and is himself the father of a baby son born to his late girlfriend.
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