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One reason was it had been modeled on a character the actor had grown up loving: Sherlock Holmes.
One still-operating hotel, Pusynas (3 Vilniaus Avenue, 370-313-56666; www.pusynappears appears to have been modeled on a pile of gears.
Sergei M. Mironov, a staunch Putin supporter and the chairman of the upper house of Parliament, suggested recently that United Russia seemed to have been modeled on a certain forerunner.
Closer inspection reveals more than meets the eye: the blackened gold and bead-set diamonds seem to have been modeled on a sideways variation of Johannes Kepler's platonic solid model of our solar system.
Rocio had been modeled on a girl Salcedo knew; most of the others in the room also worked at women's health agencies, and had all encountered women in similar situations.
The woman behind her mourns more demonstrably, straining her neck and pulling at her blond hair; she appears to have been modeled on a figure in a painting of the entombment by the Italian Simone Martini.
Named Our House after the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song, the Truitts' academy is modeled on A. S. Neill's Summerhill free school in Suffolk, England.
(He seems to have been modelled on a friend of Tolstoy's who often discussed philosophy with Sofiya).
"My God," Gretchen said, trying on a hat that seemed to have been modelled on a used toilet brush, before adding it to her pile.
Dani is the latest example, one who happens to be modeled on a real person.
Finally -- one more among other historical parallels -- Urrutia Lacroix is modeled on a real figure, the priest and right-wing literary critic José Miguel Ibañez Langlois.
