He comes upright for photographs, explaining "I want to fool people to the extent that they don't think I'm an invalid".
Finally, one said, 'You can be like the reed that bends in the wind and then, when the wind stops, comes upright again.' That appealed to me so much I wrote a novel called The Reed That Bends".
Head and arms are last to come upright.
Next came the upright newel post at the bottom of the staircase.
In its latest test run, a 10-story rocket known as the Grasshopper lifted off and briefly flew sideways, then landed smoothly on the spot from which it came, remaining upright throughout.
Nearing the mark, the Italians were headed by a radical left-hand wind shift, and for a moment Prada came bolt upright as the helmsman Francesco de Angelis momentarily lost control of his wheel.
Exhale in the leaning position and again come back upright straightening the back.
A superb opening 10 minutes, with both sides displaying classy touches, saw the score tied at 3-3 although Evans's second attempt from tee came off the upright.
That same upright came to United's rescue shortly after the break as Radoslaw Cierzniak pushed a low Reid shot into the path of Lionel Ainsworth, who fired off the post and across the face of goal.
Of course, to be fair, no government came off very upright, as James Bond, M, and Felix Leiter seemed to be the only three people in the film with a moral qualm about the sinister goings on (and you could argue that James Bond didn't give a damn about the plight of Bolivia, but simply wanted Greene as a means to work his way up the Quantum food chain).
