For Viktor & Rolf Monsieur, the fashion journey followed Jules Verne "to the center of the earth" — although whether that furnished the mineral effects gleaming from suit surfaces or inspired the tumbling figure on the backdrop remained a mystery.
In the next two movements a rhythmic ideal emerged, coming into sharpest focus when Mr. Hill set up a tumbling triplet figure with his left hand and Mr. Hebert carried it forward as an ostinato.
In between, figures and timbres came and went in a tumbling mix held tight by the pulsing.
The times they are a tumbling.
By imaging many individual tumbles (N = 203 in wild-type cells), we are able to describe in great detail the underlying structure of a tumbling event.
She even discovered some long-lost images - an amazing little figure tumbling down a cliff, arms flailing, fists clenched - for a show that gave you Goya in all his private moods: buoyant, sarcastic, horrified, impassioned, often more humorous and tender than in his public paintings.
Around the fireplace, a banquette and armless chairs, covered with crisp white linen printed with tumbling Asian figures ("they go everywhere with me, every house, my apartment in New York, my little men") and against the far wall, a sofa of luscious rose silk, thick and ribbed, its back a relaxed baroque scroll.
The incoming controller of Radio 3 has insisted he will not "dumb down" the highbrow BBC station in response to tumbling listener figures.
An amazing figure tumbling down a cliff, arms flailing, fists vainly clenched, was recently found in Marseilles.
For all its size, the scaffolding remains a rather underwhelming feature, used to best effect in a repeated sequence that has three unhinged figures tumbling scarily and in painful increments down from one level to another, finally collapsing inertly below.
