Her legs are covered in syphilitic sores and she is letting her baby tumble headfirst towards the gin shop as she takes a pinch of snuff.
Barely catching sight of a car as it cut in front of him, he slammed on his brakes, tumbling headfirst over his handlebars and drawing board.
And we saw the photograph by Richard Drew of The Associated Press, maybe the most excruciating and indelible of all the images that ran in The Times, of a man tumbling headfirst from the north tower.
The premise is simple: footage from a late-80's Japanese game show called "Takeshi's Castle," featuring dozens of ridiculously costumed contestants running obstacle courses, and usually tumbling headfirst into pools of mud, in their attempt to "storm" a stronghold and win prizes like toaster ovens -- is given an entirely new, double-entendre-laden English soundtrack.
LOS ANGELES — When outfielder Ángel Pagán went tumbling headfirst into the seats along the left-field line to make a daring catch of a pop fly in the first inning, it was a sign that Wednesday might be different for the Mets.
On the South Downs above Brighton, after a long trek through fields of bored sheep, you reach C-Curve, a mirrored panopticon that surveys the view and plays tricks with your body as you attempt to understand how it has suddenly managed to segment the landscape into a triptych or redefine a patch of grey sky as a lake into which you see yourself tumbling headfirst.
And the audience seem open to tumbling headfirst into the fantasy, discarding any cynicism in the process.
Witnesses said Dare, 19, tumbled backward headfirst onto the metal box, the area eight inches deep that is used to plant the pole.
Witnesses said Dare had tumbled backward headfirst onto the metal box, eight inches deep, that is used to plant the pole.
He tumbled 20 feet, headfirst, to his death.
