So it is uncanny to realize that the choreographer Ralph Lemon, in planning his "i get lost" Platform series, had already (in December or earlier) booked for Tuesday a screening of the (silent) unedited films taken in Haiti by Maya Deren between 1947 and 1954.
At that point, China was the only country still blocking Twitter, and neither King nor Ognianova anticipated a complete ban in Turkey — which, after all, still hoped to join the E.U. "Losing a platform like Twitter, even if it's replaced by another, is a disaster for both regular citizens and professional journalists," King told me.
Subsequently, because I had returned from the US to take part in the 1989 movement, I was imprisoned for "counter-revolutionary propaganda and incitement to crime", losing the platform I loved; I was never again allowed to publish or speak in public in China.
It has closed off a "few suspect wells" from which they think a bad cement job caused the leaking gas (which is actually good news, since had it been a reservoir leak the damage would have been potentially non-repairable, whereas now all BP has to do is fix the cement job around a few wells, a hard and expensive job to be sure, but preferable to losing the platform).
Immigration was a losing electoral platform for Republicans in 2006 and 2008.
Significant damage to oil platforms was reported, with one company losing 13 platforms, had 104 structures damaged, and five drilling wells blown off course.
Nothing collapses as quickly as the prominence of a politician about to lose his platform.
Saeb Erekat, a senior negotiator, for instance, has faded from public view, while Marwan Barghouti, a leader of the uprising, has gained prominence. Ahmed Qurei, who is known as Abu Ala, the speaker of the legislative council, has lost his platform because the council has ceased to function since the violence began.
With Nel on the field, they gave England a serious test at the scrum but once they began to lose that platform, as they did in the second half, they end up playing multi-phase rugby against 13 or 14 defenders and going nowhere with it.
We lost that platform fight, but we won respect for our efforts.
