She liked to be at the same height or slightly higher than her subjects: given her diminutive stature, this sometimes led to unorthodox requests – Michael Parkinson reclining on the floor of ITN's reception; Björk perched on rubbish bins outside the MTV studios in Camden Town.
"It's a messed-up world," my new friend says, reclining against a backdrop of rampaging forest and assorted blues, the mainland twinkling through the fog.
According to Google Trends, interest in the Knee Defender, the device one of the passengers used in an (ultimately futile) attempt to prevent his fellow traveller from reclining, has skyrocketed.
The Daily Telegraph has an article about a small contraption little bigger than a key that, it is claimed, can prevent the passenger in front reclining his chair.
Last time he was "a bit arrogant," he admits in an interview at his mansion, reclining in an armchair flanked by busts of Reagan and Churchill.
But the canvases of a little-known Kenyan painter, Richard Onyango, chronicling his obsession with a buxom Indian femme fatale, are equally romantic; what distinguishes them from reclining nudes, by Modigliani and Matisse, say, is the rage.
They fear being caught between "the two prongs of a pincer", according to the Indian Steel Alliance, an industry group.Commodity traders, such as the ones reclining in the Coronation Building, fear they may be next in line.
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On all other nights we eat either sitting up or reclining; why on this night do we all recline?" The prepared answers, recited by all in unison, give a spiritual interpretation to the customs, even though some aspects of the feast were doubtless copied from Greco-Roman banquets.
That is, I own the right to recline, and if my reclining bothers you, you can pay me to stop.
A nude portrait of the model Kiki de Montparnasse set against an ivory background (Reclining Nude with Toile de Jouy) that he showed at the 1922 Salon d'Automne was a runaway success and led to a hugely lucrative decade for Fujita.
