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  • I love how she humanizes the industry with her onlooker's point of view.

    The most interesting thing about New York Fashion Week 2006

  • It is at the moment of this rupture that the surface once bearing a subtle reflection of the onlooker's downward gaze both cracks and fragments.

    Alessandro Piangiamore 2006

  • Climbing inside the bass-drum, crawling to audience members' feet, balancing herself upright on a seated onlooker's legs, I couldn't help think of Adris Hoyos of Harry Pussy via Piper Laurie in Carrie for some reason I can't quite reckon, maybe just the factor of just not knowing what the hell was about to happen next.

    WFMU's Beware of the Blog: 2005

  • Climbing inside the bass-drum, crawling to audience members' feet, balancing herself upright on a seated onlooker's legs, I couldn't help think of Adris Hoyos of Harry Pussy via Piper Laurie in Carrie for some reason I can't quite reckon, maybe just the factor of just not knowing what the hell was about to happen next.

    Magik Markers at Tonic last night 2005

  • Maybe the affecting aspect was that Madame Ko's tanukis sparked in an onlooker's muscles a kinetic memory of the innocent freedom of early childhood, when one could let one's body go all akimbo on the slightest whim, could bounce, flop, and skip about in pure corporeal joy without embarrassment, judgment, or restraint.

    Villa Incognito Robbins, Tom 2003

  • Throwing himself down a flight of stairs that was worth the pain to catch sight of onlooker's horrified expressions.

    hemopoetic Diary Entry hemopoetic 2002

  • His heart sank when Purity denounced the lawyer -- and, indeed, she had spoken of a lawyer in Alvin Smith's party right from the start -- but the lawyer managed to plant seeds of doubt in every onlooker's mind all the same.

    Heartfire Card, Orson Scott 1998

  • In one smooth leap, Wolf was at the man, hackles raised, teeth bared, and a growl that raised the hair on the back of every onlooker's neck.

    The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985

  • Her soul had lost its onlooker's curiosity, its malice and pride; it had retreated deep into the body again, to the farthest gut, waiting desperately for someone to call it out.

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera, Milan, 1929- 1984

  • Always did it seem to flow or change, so that sometimes her hair was dark, her face of one shape, her eyes of one color, and the next she was light of hair, different of eye, changed as to chin line-as if, in one woman, many faces had been blended, with the power of changing from one to another at her will or the onlooker's fancy.

    Three Against The Witch World Norton, Andre 1965

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