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Not a white-tiled, fume-cupboarded version, full of fridges and test tubes, but something far more risky: a space of possibility and danger, of bodies anatomised on tables, of darkness and false sight, bare wires and sulphur; and, in the dark, appearing from beyond the curtain, a vision of something, a creature – a human – that may well be the real "double" of the theatre: ourselves.
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Similarly in World War II, a reported (but false) sighting of enemy bombers two days after Pearl Harbor engendered panic, and German submarines prowling the coastline kept tensions high (the enemy, said F.D.R. in 1942, could "come in and shell New York tomorrow night, under certain conditions").
Even talc particles or prior corticosteroid injections can result in a false positive sighting for crystals.
It is the latest stage in the symbolic politics of climate change, which too often has been wooed by apocalyptic imaginary and false deadlines and lost sight of the politics of pragmatism by which change in the world occurs.
But those who set out to find it were troubled by false visions and strange sights — burning homesteads, slaughtered livestock — and turned back in panic.
Mrs. Ramos rode a roller coaster of grief and hope, buoyed one day when someone thought he had seen her husband, crushed the next when the sighting proved false.
(i) High noise level: the power level of the received signal is usually more than 25?dB below the thermal noise, thus the algorithm has to be robust against false detection of line-of-sight (LOS) signals.
When Scotland Yard became involved in 2011, they came to regard the Tanner sighting as a false lead.
Its report, Hidden in Plain Sight, declared that the false allegation of paedophilia against a disabled person was a clear and present danger to their lives.
There is thankfully not a jazzy coloured cladding panel – that plasticky costume, blaring the false jolly smile of regeneration – in sight.
Five minutes later there was another false alarm, possibly inspired by the sight of a small dry ice machine dispersing a light mist in the general vicinity of Bieber's walkway.
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