OK, so some are a tad wider than others – and I know the rule about how the tip should come up to your chin when you stand the thing upright – but that's as far as my technical knowledge goes.
The kitchen starts with half of a one-and-three-quarter-pound lobster, dredges it in spices like chili powder and cayenne, fries it in chili oil, dusts it with cooling aromatics like basil leaves and julienned lemon rind, and stands the thing upright on a florist's frog.
At those secret meetings they met with "foure black things, going upright, and yet not like men in the face", with whom they ate, danced, and had sex.
Yesterday, among heaps of rubble, concrete, twisted metal and strewn papers, a single thing stood upright outside 75 Barclay Street.
Getting on is a breeze – you step on with one foot and the thing remains upright and perfectly still.
They cannot rail against "illegals," since the bill is all about making things legal and upright, with registration, fines and fees.
Bicycles, it seems, are things that stand upright.
I was a small child with a big head who was just learning to master things like walking upright and syntax.
"The great thing about the upright bass is how it got up here," said Dirby Luongo, one of Mr. Austin's collaborators who played the doorman.
Yet as the pygmies of small-mindedness launch their tiny darts at the colossus who is Clint Bunsen, one thing keeps him upright, and that is the love of a bosomy redhead aptly named Angelica Pflame.
