They took a step back and each assumed a thoughtful pose: arms crossed, eyes narrowed.
Striking a pensive pose, arms folded across his chest, Bill paused for a second before overruling his wife.
Lucinda points out Clyde's characteristic pose — arms thrown out wide, a come-join-the-party look.
He can be defensive - he continually strikes that classic pose, arms and legs twisted round each other like a gnarled old tree - but not pouty or moody.
At a rehearsal Mr. Patton, dressed in baggy black clothes, crouched low, then struck a typical macho pose, arms crossed over a thrust-out chest.
Mr. Ratmansky asks him to sustain one particular pose — arms open, face upturned, not facing the audience but on a diagonal — that suggests his mix of astonishment and gratitude, and it strikes home as something unusual in ballet, a private moment that is emotionally huge but not being sold to the public.
On the Palestinian side, the image endlessly repeated on television and wall posters is of the shaheed, the martyr -- usually a suicide bomber in a heroic pose, armed to the teeth in front of a picture of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.
ANDY RODDICK was locked in a stick-'em-up pose arms in the air, feet apart, with "don't move" on his mind -- while the wardrobe folks at "Saturday Night Live" put their guest host through a caffeinated version of Mr. Potato Head between every sketch last week.
By July, newspapers were reporting that Barrymore had killed a bear — a photograph that ran in the press showed him posing arm in arm with a massive dead grizzly.
There is a picture of Judd, in a gown that makes the most of her bosomy pulchritude, posing arm in arm with William Lauder, grandson of Estée and now C.E.O. of the entire empire she founded.
