The exhibition's other sculpture has a football-size metal teardrop poised upright on the corner of a white, eye-level tabletop.
Here, two days earlier, I had seen the lion in a walk-in freezer, alongside trays of rats, a sitatunga, and a severed giraffe leg, upright in a corner.
In one of two mercurial sculptures, a football-size metal teardrop is poised upright on the corner of an eye-level table top; in the other, two thick red panels jut divergently from the wall like Minimalist planks or the Dutch door of a giant's house.
Place pretzel sticks or baby carrots upright in each corner of the dip tray.
Place the celery spears and broccoli spears upright in one corner of the tray.
The time trial had offered Dumoulin and Dennis a chance – albeit a remote one – to put Cummings under pressure, but in the event the Wirral rider was equal to the task, although with overnight rain slow to clear, there was a delicate equation to be resolved: the need for speed versus the obvious need to stay upright on greasy corners with tight exit points and unhelpful cambers.
This drawing room is decidedly artistic, with cubist paintings on green walls and an upright piano in the corner.
Iya Valentinovna Fedotova, a widow, sat hunched over the old upright piano in the corner of the bistro, bent like a branch under the weight of winter.
Robinson slipped during his initial out-cut, but his athleticism clicked into gear and he managed to stay upright and turn the corner on the defensive back swooping in for the kill on the initial break.
The room, in the 440 Studios in the East Village, is rented by the hour and equipped with little more than an iPod dock, an (unused) upright piano in the corner and a plastic rotating disco ball lamp plugged into the wall.
