The language then was clay, figures fired in sections in her kiln and reassembled into standing or floor pieces of great drama and technical finesse.
The Israeli Army, aiming at a Hamas figure, fired missiles that killed four men.
Over the next four hours, the marines fired as many as 5,000 rounds of ammunition; the Iraqis, the marines figured, fired at least that many.
The backyard is appropriately playful, with Ms. Beck's croquet-esque scatterings of stainless-steel balls and Wayne Gonzales's "Slingshot Boy," a cutout figure firing rocks into an area of overgrowth.
Near the quilts, multiple video screens showed the "BAM" figures under fire, splintering as the bullets made contact.
The figures drew fire from former business minister Vince Cable, trade union officials and excess pay campaigners, who pointed to the more modest pay increases handed to ordinary workers.
Comparing like-for-like Friday to Sunday figures, Catching Fire is 126% up on The Hunger Games, rising from £4.47m to £10.12m.
Those are figures that fire the imaginations of investors, including green ones.
In 1904, a steamship named the General Slocum, in honor of a Civil War figure, caught fire in the East River, causing more than 1,000 deaths.
Park officials initially figured the fire could be managed without affecting nearby neighborhoods because the winds were blowing west, into the park's roughly one million acres.
Now sunburned and an Oscar-winning 80 pounds lighter, Thom cracks open a new egg in front of the fully grown Product Placement I. THOM Jeez, Product Placement I, if only I could figure out fire.
