For instance, the show includes Lady Gaga's 12-inch platforms, designed in 2012 by Noritaka Tatehana (if a ballerina's pointe shoe mated with a cement boot, this is what you'd get).

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This is usually a mechanical plug with cement poured in on top.

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Cement is then mixed with water to form this ubiquitous material which shapes our landscapes and cities.

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"Joe Pesci always said I'd end up with my feet in cement - I don't think this is what he had in mind, " the actor joked, referring to his co-star in the mob movie Goodfellas.

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This technique, starving fires of oxygen and then instantly capping the well with mud and cement, remained his favourite.

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At this moment, Davy Jones has been cased to the bottom of the well, sealed with cement and temporarily abandoned so the rig could be moved 2.5 miles to the southwest to drill the second Davy Jones delineation well.

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