Now they curl over, their felted gray undersides exposed.
The powder cuts open the bugs' undersides, exposing them to infection and dehydration.
Just to mention recent movies, the amoral Norwegian thriller based on Jo Nesbø's Headhunters, the film versions of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy about political corruption in Sweden, and Nicolas Winding Refn's three Pusher movies about Copenhagen's criminal underside have exposed something explosive festering beneath the apparently well-ordered world of fairness, fir forests and fjords.
Also, he was right in many things, recognising before the Gallipoli debacle what subsequent military historians have tended to confirm: that the port of Alexandretta, on Turkey's exposed underside, would have been a preferable launch pad for an assault.
While his life aroused scant interest, his death has exposed an underside of the world's "most liveable" city, famed for its devotion to sport and an annual comedy festival.
His recent subjects include the reconstruction of a train crash that exposed the underside of China's boom; a group of Chinese tourists on their first trip to Europe; and a barber who set out to beat the house in Macau.
The Rams, without their top two players, running back Marshall Faulk and quarterback Kurt Warner, peeled back the Giants' skin like a banana, and exposed a soft underside.
In 2010, for instance, financial corruption was in vogue, as "Inside Job," "Client 9," and "Casino Jack" all exposed the seamy underside of Wall Street and the lobbying business.
The case, growing out of one of the biggest scandals in the art world in recent times, exposed a seamy underside of a business that long prided itself on upper-class panache and English roots, besmirching both Sotheby's, founded in 1744, and Christie's, founded in 1766.
Had she been able to aim better — the revolving turret allowed the ship to maintain a high rate of fire, but it couldn't be stopped precisely in its spin — it might well have stripped away some of the iron plating and exposed a vulnerable underside.
