The plaster- cast head of Nijinsky as The Faun which decorates Dorian's flat refers not only to the sexual voyeurism in the 1912 ballet L'après-midi d'un faune, but to Nijinsky's real-life schizophrenia – a pathology underlined when, in a classic Gothic story-twist, Dorian begins to be stalked by his own double.
In this paper, the term "flat" refers to a number of superiors having equal status and influence, that is, a number of superiors are in a similar status and have the same weight in influencing subordinates.
The subject of a best-selling book Mr. Friedman wrote after he met Mr. Nilekani in 2004 in Bangalore, "flat world" refers to the narrowing of differences between the capabilities of people in industrialised countries and emerging nations.
The actor suffered such a frightening fall from grace 18 months ago that today, two cappuccinos down in a cafe near to his central London flat, he refers to the experience, simply, as "the Negativity".
The term "flat" usually refers to a nonhierarchical structure, for example, one that does not have many levels between the superior and subordinate.
It was Burress' joke that flat out referred to Cosby as a "rapist" that initiated the wave of recent accusations, starting with Barbara Bowman's Washington Post story "Bill Cosby Raped Me.
The term "flat responder" refers to the population that showed no variation in the HCV RNA after receiving the SOC treatment.
"As a speech it was O.K., but I thought his attacks on Gore fell flat," she said, referring to Vice President Al Gore.
"The one thing that we knew even before Thomas Friedman told us is that the basketball world is flat," Stern said referring to the development of basketball throughout the world.
Leigh Bowery lived on the 11th floor of Farrell House, a block of Stepney council flats often referred to as Feral House, where I first visited him in 1987-ish.
