| 单词 | stilt |
| 例句 | I used to press my ear against it and listen for Chinese rickshaw pullers or Japanese Zeros or a monsoon puffing away a village on stilts. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The king's own fool, the pie-faced simpleton called Moon Boy, danced about on stilts, all in motley, making mock of everyone with such deft cruelty that Sansa wondered if he was simple after all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Crutches would be almost as much fun as stilts! The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “I’m going to walk on stilts. I used to be a whiz at it when I was young.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z A pair of twins on stilts stand on either side of the entrance. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Farmers in the floodplain build houses and barns on stilts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There was an old wooden grandstand at one side, lifted on stilts for the ladies. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes even the fishermen’s huts were washed away, knocked right off their long-legged stilts and swept down the river. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you not see my feet in your shoes? And the way I walked in them? I looked like I was on stilts!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Our house sat on concrete stilts that allowed enough headroom underneath for us to stake out play areas with clearly defined boundaries. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I feel as if I’m on stilts, and look even taller than I already am. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z We cross bridges standing on stilts over water inlets, red barns tucked deep within rolling meadows, a giant wood-carved bear standing at the edge of the highway. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Stay stilt grunted the dwarf, grabbing hold of Harry’s bag and pulling him back. “Let me go!” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z But there were the butcher priests, too, performing divination of animal entrails, and the Doomsayers on their stilts, crying End Times from behind their skeleton masks. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The villagers followed the stream past clusters of huts and granaries perched on stilts. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was drafty, rickety, perched on thin stilts over the river, with showers that pumped foul-smelling water directly from the Hudson over the boys’ heads. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Moon Boy lurched about the hall on stilts making mock of everyone, while Ser Dontos chased serving girls on his broomstick horse. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “There was a cabin on stilts with laundry hung out to dry. I gathered my courage and I stole some sheets for you to wear, Archivist! Here, sir!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z We came to Macún when I was four, to a rectangle of rippled metal sheets on stilts hovering in the middle of a circle of red dirt. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “He buys tall slaves from all over the world, mates the men to the women, and keeps their tallest offspring for the Herons. One day he hopes to be able to dispense with the stilts.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His stiff forelegs splay out to the sides like stilts, for he’s been caught in the act of reaching down for water. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then this man on stilts and dressed like a giraffe stole my African hat. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z On top of the stilts was a tiny porch with two rocking chairs and window boxes full of flowers perched on the railing. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The schoolhouse was next door, a long, single-room barn of a building raised on concrete stilts. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z An indoor ladder grew stilts, turned into stairs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A mummer on stilts was striding through the throngs like some great insect, with a horde of barefoot children trailing behind him, hooting. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They were used as stilts in the kiln, to support a vessel clear of the clay stand on which it was fired, so that the two would not fuse together. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Plush royal boxes sit on stilts high above. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He carried Screamer to the hack board, a food platform on stilts. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Big old grasshopper body, like a stilt- walking circus guy. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z But the back was on stilts stuck into the steep mountainside. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The woman onstage has tottered on stilts fashioned from empty cans of Slim-Fast. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Pa tells us the flood is why all huts are built on stilts, high off the ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess Nemur’s fear of being revealed as a man walking on stilts among giants is understandable. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It's the traditional Philippine house, built on stilts, with one room where the whole family lives. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The gulls on their wooden stilts at the tip of the bar miaowed like cats. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Men hung at a stage-bar, mostly drinking beer, while the women danced in stiletto heels so high they doubled as stilts. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z They dodged acrobats and a stilt walker and a harp player. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Cripe didn’t ring up a stilt after the farm women left, so they may have come in just for the toothpicks. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Girl, you can have those stilts back with a quickness!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z This is the dock guard tower, a popcorn stand on stilts where somebody’s dad sits with enough firepower to blow us all to smithereens. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Often they appeared from the bush walking on stilts, towering above the crowd and screaming in different tongues. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Around the fiery circle, warriors on high stilts beat upraised swords against their shields. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z His legs were stilts, his eyes leaked water, his beard ended in wisps at the third button of his vest, his skin appeared pink and chafed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z All were long-faced and long-legged, and the stilts built into the legs of their ornate armor made them longer still. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Just before lunchtime, into the office walked a woman in a tight pencil skirt and patent shoes high as stilts, her straightened hair sleekly pulled back. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z By the time the troupe got to New Hampshire last month, the stilt walking had practically become second nature. Arts & Leisure: ?69?S.,? Shackleton Tale, Comes to BAM Next Wave Festival 2011-10-30T03:00:38Z An aerial dancer was suspended from the balloon 20 metres in the air, while beasts on stilts marched below. Catching fire: Burning Man is sparking sister festivals around the world 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Street performers, acrobats, jugglers, stilt walkers and family activities are also featured; hotel packages are available. In Transit Blog: Calendar: Coming Events in Gettysburg, Pa; Quebec 2013-06-21T17:00:37Z From a fairytale Japanese teahouse on stilts to a pavilion made of geometric acrylic panels in the guise of a computer-imagined tree, here are miniature buildings designed to provoke and delight the imagination. Best of the London Festival of Architecture 2010-06-16T11:56:00Z Compare this to the British Museum last autumn, where vast crowds enjoyed a celebration of Mexico's Day of the Dead, with skeleton stilt walkers, candy skulls – and lectures that we listened to eagerly. Tate Modern's birthday was a soulless celebration 2010-05-17T10:49:00Z Several stages hosted performances by jugglers, stilt walkers, troubadours and fiery dancers. Germany’s Christmas markets take yuletide spirit to another level 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The lead puppeteer, with the help of several assistants, extricated himself and stepped off the stilts. Four Months, 5,000 Miles: A Refugee Puppet Looks for Home 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z This Saturday is Illumination Celebration, with art activities, a family lantern-making workshop and a moonlight lantern walk through the garden — featuring giant puppets and stilt dancers — followed by an all-ages afterparty. Spare Times for Children, for Jan. 25-31 2013-01-24T22:45:09Z Between the colorful textiles and the lush landscapes, the elephants on parade and the stilt walkers, “Midnight’s Children” is a visual treat. Lovely ‘Midnight’s Children’ crams in birth of a nation — and 2 boys 2013-05-09T20:50:32Z Once in a while, I saw distant wooden houses on stilts. Along the Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The squat houses, some on stilts, are of weathered timber and tin. T Magazine: Beyond the Melting Pot 2011-05-16T19:45:36Z Stare into a garden of flaming roses long enough and tall, willowy cats, standing upright as if on stilts, emerge – and they’re wearing butterfly masks. Raven Servellon's 'Velvet Sunflower' is a trippy art party 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z In the common room of a small home built on stilts, we set our packs near a shelf of Buddhist icons. A Three-Day Trek in the Highlands of Myanmar 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Daniel plays a fire-blowing stilt walker in the opera's latest production. Opera: Burned fire blower to return home Thursday 2013-02-05T18:59:08Z Performers on bendy stilts gyrated over arrivals at artist Chris Burden's "Urban Light" installation and, later, undulated in an iridescent glow as guests had dinner. For its 50th birthday, LACMA gets $675 million in gifts 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Mendoza, who shot in Hong Kong's flower market and Tai O, a remote fishing village known for its houses on stilts, said his short explores the generational gap in Hong Kong. HK film festival opens, mood hurt by Japan crisis 2011-03-20T16:16:03Z The Philippine filmmaker shot at Hong Kong's flower market and the outyling fishing village of Tai O, best known for its houses on stilts. Johnnie To romance, short films to open HK fest 2011-02-24T12:36:08Z A vampire-style belle with long raven tresses, garbed in a black veil and flowing dress, moseyed by on stilts. Lots to catch the eye at opening day of Folklife Festival 2011-05-28T02:46:41Z Desperate for money, he sold neckties on the streets of New York, walked on stilts at Coney Island for five bucks and five hot dogs a day. Review | In ‘Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise,’ working-class Archie Leach becomes a Hollywood legend 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z When one thinks of the Maldives, a necklace of 26 tropical atolls in the Indian Ocean, one might envision $2,000 suites on stilts over turquoise waters and honeymooners dining barefoot on the beach. 45 Places to Go in 2012 2012-01-06T17:44:12Z Admittedly, we get frosted branches made out of human bodies, satyrs on stilts and a White Witch's sleigh that seems to be composed of art nouveau antlers. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – review 2012-05-31T10:37:01Z A Japanese teahouse on stilts, part of the V&A's Small Spaces exhibition. Best of the London Festival of Architecture 2010-06-16T11:56:00Z Built on stilts, with a pitched roof, it echoes Vieux Lille’s medieval heart, but with a great deal more humour. Lille wonder: a whistle-stop tour of a Franco-Belgian jewel 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z As a poor motherless kid in London, Archibald Leach made his way as an acrobat and stilt dancer in music halls, occasionally picking pockets to support himself. Up, Up and Away: The Trippy Tales Behind ‘Flying Over Sunset’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Burlesque and showgirl acts are one of many the circus group perform, along with fire shows, acrobatics, hand balancing, juggling, stilt walkers and trapeze work. Bank backtracks on burlesque ban 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Trampoline, in English since at least the late 1790s, is from the Italian trampoli, meaning "stilts." The etymology of 15 weird and wonderful Olympic words 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z The new 22-story William Vale hotel, which looks like a layer cake on stilts, may be Brooklyn’s version of the Standard, High Line, but can Westlight be the borough’s Boom Boom Room? 7 Party Hot Spots Opening in New York This Fall 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Tai O is a classic Chinese stilt village. In Hong Kong, History at a New Hotel 2012-11-28T00:06:36Z A doughnut-shaped pavilion of wooden slats on stilts, #Untitled 158 offers a different perspective on the surrounding countryside. Sculpture from the saddle: a cycling and art tour of Belgium 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Waimea was pleasantly cool, with wooden houses on stilts with corrugated metal roofs and chickens in the yards. Looking for a Bargain Vacation? Don’t Rule Out Hawaii 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z He remembers dry ice, a DJ, mohawked performers on stilts coming out into the audience to make trouble. Cillian Murphy: ‘Is this it, for the rest of my days?’ 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z You’ll see the roots of the stilt palm and several other plants, but you’ll also know that the hidden roots of the roses, corn, grasses and bamboo are busy below. Exposing plants’ deepest dirty secrets: Their roots 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Or, to kids’ delight, male performers bounce by on fiberglass bungee-like stilts. ‘Odysseo’: Lovely horses, riders prancing in a dreamscape 2014-02-20T22:48:30Z Mr. Zaks puts the human characters on stilts to foster a dog’s-eye view, forcing the actors to galumph around precariously and use their arms for balance, like Frankenstein creations fresh from the lab. | 'The 101 Dalmations Musical': Dogs Real and Not Flee Cruella at Madison Square Garden 2010-04-11T22:04:00Z Some stay the night in a comfortable cabin on stilts that Ken and Judy built at the water’s edge. Kentucky's Red River Gorge 2010-04-07T20:54:00Z French mimes on stilts spread mysterious silent warnings at storefronts. Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z We had to pass the deep-drop lavatory cubicles on the way, the ones on stilts that have containers below and you cover up your droppings with sawdust – similar to those at IOW. Are the Rolling Stones worth dying for? 2013-07-03T15:49:36Z Two unlikely explorers teetered on stilts in the lower left corner, one bulbous eye peering through a towering telescope. Art in Bristol, England, Moves Beyond Museum Walls 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z At a scheduled time two dozen or so young men, some on stilts, all with masks representing spirits and animals, silently emerge from behind high rocks. An Art Critic in Africa: In Mali, Finding Art as Authentic as Life Itself 2012-04-16T18:59:43Z Travel around Koh Kret is on narrow concrete paths, raised perilously high on stilts in some areas, passing among houses and temples, fields and woodlands. Special Report: A Cut Above: An Island Refuge Amid the Sprawl in Bangkok 2012-06-20T03:21:01Z “They also needed more rooms upstairs than down, so there were rooms on stilts over terraces.” 2009-12-21T05:00:00Z Of the 20 houses still holding on, only a few are on stilts; the government never paid to raise them. Q&A: The Filmmaker Benh Zeitlin’s Impressions of the Bayou 2012-08-22T19:00:20Z Amal, whose name means “hope” in Arabic, is operated by up to four people, including one person on stilts. Little Amal Arrives in New York, With a Message of Hope and Humanity 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z We threaded among hamlets studded with wood-framed cottages on stilts and through shady, swampy patches sheltered by towering palm trees. Heads Up: Escaping to ‘Bangkok’s Green Lung’ 2013-06-14T20:05:33Z Suited up in black spandex and gloves with bits of fur, Henry wore arm extenders and stilts, depending on whether Cokey was on four legs or two, that enabled him to move like a quadruped. In the Wild Tale of ‘Cocaine Bear,’ an Apex Predator Is the True Star 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z The house was built in 1954 by Hungarian architect Paul Weidlinger, and is essentially a cabin on stilts at the edge of a lake. Cape Cod's hidden modernist houses 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Roughly 75 percent of the nation’s hops are grown here, and the loopy architecture of hop yards — a giant cat’s cradle of stilts and strings — is a common sight. In the Yakima Valley, Serious Wines and Sweeping Vistas 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Their homes are now on stilts, and even so, villagers reported frequent flooding into their dwellings. First village relocated due to climate change 2012-09-19T19:03:00Z The performers made that easy, beginning with the masked stilt walkers of the Brooklyn Jumbies. Lincoln Center Out of Doors Pays Tribute to Jenneth Webster 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Open to visitors as well as hotel guests, its seven thatch-roofed massage bungalows rest on stilts in the forest where a natural stream provides a rushing water soundtrack during treatments. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in St. Lucia 2011-11-10T16:37:37Z On Saturday, she will demonstrate that commitment with a Brooklyn event featuring one of her favorite tools of performance: stilts. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 22-28 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The party, complete with fire dancers, a 15-member percussion band and a stilt walker, was billed to “thrill guests” and “wake the dead.” Perspective | Till death do us part: A voodoo-themed wedding celebration at Congressional Cemetery 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Around the corner, in a different bayside house sitting high up on stilts, Drew was dealing with dislodged materials for his own renovation. The Property Brothers Are Fixing to Take Over the World 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian Finding a fairytale Japanese teahouse sprouting from wooden stilts in a corridor of the Victoria and Albert museum is an unexpected yet curiously apposite experience. 1:1 with the V&A's Small Spaces 2010-06-09T20:30:00Z Our 415-square-foot bungalow on concrete stilts, one of the cheaper options available, was cool, quiet and comfortable. The Cheeca Lodge Is Back, Tiki Bar and All 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Dubbed a "tree house," it was built on stilts in the woods and wasn't accessible by car. For 'The Gambler,' filmmaker sought a less familiar side of L.A. 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z The river was then so alluring that Bangkok was affectionately called “the Venice of the East,” a serene warren of canals, floating markets and stilt houses. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The stilts were the hardest part, the basic skill of stilt-walking. The Man Who Gave an Android His Best Lines in the ‘Star Wars’ Film ‘Rogue One’ 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z During Monday’s show, ten models posed as "living statues" on painted pedestals or balanced on stilts in the center of the garden. Thom Browne’s Spring 2015 show was a garden wonderland 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Sidewalk jugglers and stilt walkers will be on hand when the fun starts on Wednesday and also on Saturdays to lead visitors to a room transformed like a striped circus tent. Ice Cream Carnival Pops Up in NoLIta 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Among the stilts, in the ruined cinema, this effort at overwhelming memorial was haunting. Adam Thirlwell stares at graffiti in Beirut 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z He threw more than his voice into this one: Performing in scenes on location, he donned a motion-capture suit and balanced on stilts to simulate the tall, lanky droid. The Man Who Gave an Android His Best Lines in the ‘Star Wars’ Film ‘Rogue One’ 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z The morning embers of cooking fires flickered from within teak houses on stilts. Journeys: Ban Tham Lod in Northern Thailand 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z The result is a compendium of beautiful, innovative structures, including a floating egg-shaped residence and a number of tree houses built on stilts. A New Book Looks at Lightweight Homes 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z The diaries contain a black-and-white drawing based on one of his sketches of a thatch hut on wooden stilts with a longboat on shore. In Cambodia, Along the Path to Something Profound 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Fishing boats teeming with resting pelicans, bamboo shacks on stilts, shrimp farms, trucks laden with pineapples, and families sharing motorcycles were common sights. Three Sides of Ecuador 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Last time I went there were performance artists, aerial acrobatics, individuals on stilts, and neon body painting. Gay New York: a guide to clubs, bars, drag shows and queer culture 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z This year’s show, “Big Apple Circus: The Grand Tour,” is friendly, beguiling and emphatically humane, from the smallest poodle to the tallest stilt walker. Review: Luxury Travel With the Big Apple Circus 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Nearby, suspended over the water overlooking the South China Sea, rickety open-fronted restaurants were perched on stilts. Cambodia, in and Around Kep, Open but Undeveloped 2012-03-02T23:24:36Z It was the season’s first team challenge, as the remaining 14 contestants were broken down into groups of two to create a runway look for models who would be walking on stilts. On the Runway Blog: Walking Tall on 'Project Runway' 2011-08-12T16:34:10Z He opened it a few blocks from Trotter's, and Trotter, interviewed by The New York Times, called Achatz's brash, intricate culinary pyrotechnics "nonsense upon stilts." Grant Achatz: The making of Chicago's top chef ... and what's Next 2011-02-15T06:00:00Z “I don’t wear stilts or anything,” he says. Davis plays freak in “Side Show” 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Waking up one morning, he discovers all his possessions, including bright orange stilts, are gone, except for this one crucial accessory. A Hat Tip to 4 New Picture Books 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z We took the better part of the afternoon for our Ramona pilgrimage, wandering along the same sidewalks where a spunky girl once clanked along on her tin-can stilts. Ramona Quimby’s Portland: A self-guided walking tour through sites in Beverly Cleary’s books 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Bare-trunked up to eight feet, these deciduous trees with beechlike foliage are clipped to form an encircling hedge on its own stilts. After a winter restoration, the famed Hornbeam Ellipse is almost back 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Wooden houses on stilts, painted mint green and baby blue and shaded by towering palms, line the main dirt road. Next Stop: In Cambodia, Koh Kong Emerges as an Eco-Tourism Destination 2011-03-04T19:55:00Z I loved that, before the Vancouver match, there were guys on stilts playing pickup soccer with neighborhood children. Soccer as Spectacle in the Pacific Northwest 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z In a house on Ibiza, he choreographed pavilions on stilts of glass with chartreuse-painted trim to preserve local species of plants and pathways used by animals. Columbia Names a New Dean for Its Architecture School 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Spend a day wandering around meetings of business lobbyists in Washington hotel ballrooms and you will see Tocqueville-style networking, on stilts. The D.I.Y. Way to Heal the Social Fabric: Don’t Do It Yourself 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Being fitted with lower leg prosthesis is a bit like learning to walk on stilts. I chose to have my legs amputated 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z Some architects seem happy to take their wedding cake-style McMansions and jack them up on stilts, he noted, regardless of what he calls the poor aesthetics. The Water Will Come, but Not to This Miami Home 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z She guides the viewer over a village built on water, with wooden stilts holding up the houses. ‘The Burial of Kojo’ Review: A Dazzling Modern Fable 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Farther inland there is a small, newly built restaurant on stilts by the pathway. Special Report: A Cut Above: An Island Refuge Amid the Sprawl in Bangkok 2012-06-20T03:21:01Z The next day, I nestled into a hammock at Cave Lodge’s main building, an open-air veranda on stilts, under a roof of dried leaves. Journeys: Ban Tham Lod in Northern Thailand 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z But those who’d like to be less dazed and confused should book one of the seven Hop Pickers’ Huts, which are set on stilts along a boardwalk by a tributary of the Nailbourne river. 5 Rural Retreats Worthy of a Detour 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Electives allowed us to explore our personal interests in topics like unicycling and stilt aerobics. I flunked out of clown school 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z After a lunch break in the town of Dak Glei, the driver stopped in another village so that Mr. Bowyer could see a traditional stilt house. Blogging Is All About the Experiences 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Cloying accordion music is played; stilts, funny hats and other vaudevillian props are deployed; brightly patterned parasols are twirled. Theater Review: ‘Not by Bread Alone’ at the N.Y.U. Skirball Center 2013-01-18T23:41:49Z But Ms. Hunter’s disciplined images are continually undermined by the clomping stilts and teetering performers. | '69?S.': ?69?S.? at BAM Harvey Theater - Review 2011-11-03T22:47:19Z Although the silhouette was essentially a square on stilts — square-cut jackets with skinny pants or minis — there were shapes within shapes, and squares formed by the overlapping panels of jackets. Fashion Review: In Paris, Risks Bring Rewards 2010-03-05T01:09:00Z In Kiev, he sees crowds shelter from a downpour under Coca-Cola umbrellas and girls on stilt heels flocking to hear McCartney via the shopping mall "in pursuit of pink fripperies". For young Soviets, the Beatles were a first, mutinous rip in the iron curtain 2013-04-20T13:00:01Z Maria Kent, a dancer and stilt walker, said she hasn’t received any benefits, about six weeks after filing on April 4. Party Planners on Pause, Awaiting Revelry’s Return 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Why do Scandinavian architects perch cabins on stilts at rocky waterfronts and use helicopters to deliver construction materials on otherwise inaccessible mountainsides? Architectural Feats in Inhospitable Spots 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z It showed a group of white fiberglass dogs with big floppy ears set up on wooden stilts. The Fever Bubbling in Contemporary Art Sales 2011-11-11T14:00:10Z Street performers juggled, hula-hooped and walked on stilts to the amazement of onlookers. Rock in Rio debuts to 82,000 fans 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z In one wearable work that recalls a shantytown, little houses on stilts made of cardboard, wood and plastic spring hither and thither across a mountain, from which the artist's nude feet protrude. Artist of the week 150: Emily Speed 2011-08-11T15:26:52Z It was a Hawaiian stilt, which like the duck, moorhen and coot, is a federally endangered species. The U.S. Issue:?Explorer: An Eden for Rare Birds in Hawaii 2011-05-13T20:14:41Z Black, spidery watchtowers with slanting roofs and long, black stilts for legs behind the black fencing, attached to black poles, silhouetted against powdery white across the ground. Terez?n: music from a Nazi ghetto 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z Even after months of rehearsal the performances were still exhausting, Mr. Ward said — the troupe was able to stand on stilts for only about 45 minutes at a time — and the performers could never relax. Arts & Leisure: ?69?S.,? Shackleton Tale, Comes to BAM Next Wave Festival 2011-10-30T03:00:38Z She is tomboyish and tall, like Ally Sheedy on stilts, so that when she folds her long legs under her chair, she looks exaggeratedly S-shaped. Alien: Covenant’s Katherine Waterston: ‘We live in hypersexualised yet totally prudish times’ 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z And then there was the physical comedy, when Mr. Hart emerged from behind the studio desk on stilts to convey Mr. O’Neal’s height. ‘S.N.L.’ Takes On Omarosa Resignation (or Firing?) 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z Another building killed by that downturn was Daniel Libeskind’s One Madison, an ethereal, vegetation-laced tower built on stilts, hovering above what is now the Credit Suisse Tower. 10 Places That Define New York City, Reimagined 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Inside a nearby courtyard, some wooden quarters on stilts were collapsing with age but clearly were still inhabited by monks, their orange robes hanging from the railings. Special Report: A Cut Above: An Island Refuge Amid the Sprawl in Bangkok 2012-06-20T03:21:01Z Last night, Diesel was springing about 10ft tall, showing up to the London premiere of Guardians in high-tech stilts and an "I am Groot" T-shirt. Vin Diesel on Guardians of the Galaxy: 'I didn't realise how much I love trees' 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z In October, Diesel testing out stilts for a motion-capture role in Guardians of the Galaxy, "continuing his apparently fearless disregard for Marvel Studios' famed secrecy", . Vin Diesel will voice Marvel's Groot 2013-12-22T18:17:01Z Today the lodge has a five-acre site with stilt houses, bungalows, a guava and pomelo orchard and a pen for livestock. Going Local in Vietnam’s Villages 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Brooklyn Jumbies, a group devoted to the arts of the African diaspora, will teach the technique, starting with very short stilts. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 22-28 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z “It’s a stool with three legs,” Mr. Binh said, sitting cross-legged in a stilt house overlooking the lake. Going Local in Vietnam’s Villages 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z There's an impressive handstand act performed on a tower of chairs that never wobble, and you can't help but admire the bravery of the teeterboard segment on stilts. Kooza – review 2013-01-09T14:18:11Z Clowns, jugglers, stilt walkers, trapeze artists and dancers feature in a show which promises to tread its own tightrope of fun, emotion and danger. This week's new dance 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z The building, constructed on stilts to protect against flooding, will eventually be enveloped in greenery; lush circular columns of plants — each weighing around two tons — cascade from the roof. Miami Museum’s Challenge: The Beach 2013-12-04T22:43:46Z At Topsail Island, for instance, we walked far out on the wet low tide sand, where you might expect to walk picking up shells or sea glass, and stood below large abandoned homes on stilts. Sandy recovery: Walls won’t stop superstorms 2012-11-06T19:20:00Z Highton bought a stilt house on the lake and started to bring visitors to see the lightning. The 'Catatumbo Lightning': Venezuela's eternal storm 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Kapalai is an artificial island, a diver’s nirvana atop wooden stilts sunk into a shallow reef, 40 minutes by speedboat from Malaysia’s easternmost coast. Journeys : A Monsoon, Then Underwater Magic in Malaysia 2013-01-25T17:46:35Z Sitting atop stilts on the beach, its view is unparalleled and it’s enough of an island destination to remain open year-round. Each summer, theater fans descend on an unspoiled Dutch island 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Spring stilts give him a great and stooping height: they also lead him to move with a disconcerting, unpredictable bounce. My Dad's a Birdman; Beauty and the Beast; Les parents terribles; Alice in Wonderland 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z “It’s about community building and sharing experiences culturally through this one medium, stilt walking,” said Ms. Anderson Barbata, who has also documented the practice in Mexico and the United States. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 22-28 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Dunia, a land of "palms and sweat and hot sauces" and stilt river villages, is clearly modeled after 1950s oil-rich, Anglophile Brunei. 2010-01-07T14:25:00Z The New Victory will also present the American premiere of Circus Der Sinne's "Mother Africa" in December, featuring stilt walkers from Tanzania and a renowned contortionist from Kenya. New Victory Theater offers Bob Marley, Shakespeare 2013-05-23T19:25:09Z And the entire house is precariously set on the side of a cliff supported by nothing but a few load bearing stilts. "BoJack Horseman": Life's hilarity and pain, illustrated 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z At the least she came away with entertaining stories about visiting his family in Italy, like the time she arrived at a “casual” dinner to find trumpet players and people on stilts dropping flower petals. Arts & Leisure: Look Past the Beauty, if You Can 2011-07-22T13:53:10Z After they leave in spring, through mid-May, flycatchers, vireos and warblers replace them, along with migrating shorebird species, including plovers, curlews and stilts. Birds by the Billions: A Guide to Spring’s Avian Parade 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z And then a character in ad hoc armor, who looks like an extra from “Mad Max,” ambles past the car on giant stilts, wearing a sign that reads, “Detroit, Rise Up.” ‘Low Winter Sun’ Gives Detroit a Leading Role 2013-08-02T12:00:19Z Meanwhile, the company's founder Guy Laliberté – the stilt walker who in 2009 became a billionaire space tourist – has said he is "heartbroken" by the traumatic accident. The rise and fall of Cirque du Soleil 2013-07-09T11:44:22Z The notion of putting the puppeteers up on stilts was Mr. Sanko’s. Arts & Leisure: ?69?S.,? Shackleton Tale, Comes to BAM Next Wave Festival 2011-10-30T03:00:38Z Postponed from last weekend, when it was snowed out, the entertainment, from Circus Amok, will include stump-to-stump high-wire walking, a ringtoss tree, forest canopy stilt walkers, live music and face painting. For Children Listings for Jan. 29-Feb. 4 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The old woman immediately transports the baby to her home, a crude hut on stilts in the middle of a salt lake where fish are dying, and the desperate fishermen spend their days raking salt. Movie Review: ‘Southwest,’ From Eduardo Nunes 2013-01-16T22:50:59Z In 2006, I impulsively bought a hexagonal house on stilts at the beach, and proceeded to do nothing to it for six years. | The Triumph of Personal Style 2014-04-04T16:38:00Z In “Barnum,” he implied the colossal scale of Jumbo the elephant by letting the parts suggest the whole, constructing legs and a trunk that were tugged onstage by two stilt walkers. David Mitchell, Broadway Set Designer, Dies at 79 2011-10-05T01:56:33Z Miyazaki has never cared much for the “realistic” animating of human figures; they are abstracted into giant-eyed doll faces and stiff legs, as if trudging on stilts. The Wind Rises: An Animation Master’s Last Flight? 2014-02-20T15:00:59Z Hundreds of sandbags leaned against the stilts, though to call them “bags” is to not get the point across. Sandy recovery: Walls won’t stop superstorms 2012-11-06T19:20:00Z Five waterfront cottages sit on stilts along pristine Tomales Bay, with an additional seven water-view cottages up the hill across Highway 1. U.S. Issue: Check In/Check Out: Hotel Review: Nick?s Cove & Cottages in Marshall, Calif. 2011-05-13T20:12:32Z A stilt walker and juggler are fine, but what about all those other outrageous things that make Vegas Vegas? Rock in Rio USA is a ball of confusion 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Some of these tiny buildings were unpainted and so decrepit that the stilts were rotting and starting to tip; others had a fresh wash of bright color and porches covered with blooming plants. Next Stop: Nikoi Island Offers Splendid Isolation 2010-04-29T21:58:00Z And a few of the early 20th-century traditional wooden houses on stilts in and around the city are now open for tours. Next Stop: A Pocket of the Past in Battambang, Cambodia 2011-12-15T21:22:50Z This hourlong production from Bond Street Theater, presented as part of the Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival, uses song, dance, puppetry and stilt walking to illuminate Earhart’s odyssey. Spare Times for Children for Feb. 13-19 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z It was not until 1995, when he reached Lake Maracaibo on a visit to see its colorful houses on stilts when he was captivated by the phenomenon. The 'Catatumbo Lightning': Venezuela's eternal storm 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Although the silhouette was essentially a square on stilts — square-cut jackets or tops with skinny pants or miniskirts — the materials, and the shapes within shapes, were hard to identify. Balenciaga: Domestic Studies 2010-03-04T17:41:00Z They might need to rethink the terrifying Scarecrow on stilts and the asylum, strewn with chained corpses. Batman Live ? review 2011-07-23T23:06:05Z Last year, Makoko made world news when local authorities gave orders to clear part of the waters occupied by houses on stilts. Makoko exhibition opens a window on a Nigerian world 2013-03-28T14:04:50Z Here was “Bobby,” who lumbers around New York on comically tall stilts and whom Mr. Heller first featured on social media exactly one year earlier. The ‘Unofficial Talent Scout’ Who Celebrates New York’s Colorful Side 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Now it’s a pavilion on stilts over the marsh. Q&A: Finding the Flavors of Charleston, S.C. 2013-04-23T20:19:19Z He gently chides a “dead cat” crevice between homes that would be “impossible to clean” and a balcony on spindly stilts that has “the smooth surfaces and floating quality of a hydraulic car lift.” Reading Between the Design Lines 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z As a dreamy soundtrack plays in the background, she arrives at “Spa Sybarite,” where futuristic stone treatment pods hover on stilts above a desert landscape. Cautionary Climate Tales That Give People Pause When They Press Play 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Cynical old person is sent to festival, wanders around and, inspired by half a cider, loons on stilts and a delusional attempt to have "an experience", they have some kind of epiphany. 'I saw the Rolling Stones. In the 60s' 2013-07-01T06:00:18Z Over four nights last week, audience members trekked the outdoors there, walking from scene to scene, as the actors, musicians and stilt walkers performed in vibrant, whimsical costumes. Lend Us Your Ears, and Don’t Forget Your Farm Boots 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Behold the bwa-bwa, stilt dancers in blindingly bright outfits, arms outstretched to the sky, as if to touch every Creole-style balcony along the charming streets of Roseau, Dominica’s capital. On Dominica, a Carnival Celebration as It Was Meant to Be 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z “These are huge animals, with blazing speed, on stilts,” he said. Report: ‘Life of Pi’ Tiger ‘Damn Near Drowned’ on Set 2013-11-25T15:16:56Z Leading toward the water, the lane turned into a pier lined with houses on wooden stilts. Next Stop: Nikoi Island Offers Splendid Isolation 2010-04-29T21:58:00Z Towering, inscrutable machines called Tripods stride about like giant Humvees atop metal stilts. An Early Dystopian Trilogy About Resistance—and What Comes After 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z The royal wedding guest list even includes the charismatic proprietor of Basil's Bar, a popular tavern on the island perched on stilts over the Caribbean Sea. Royal wedding fever hits some in UK Caribbean 2011-04-27T08:16:04Z For lunch, we drove on a potholed side road to Burdines Waterfront, a marina and boat fuel dock with a tiki-esque restaurant on stilts high above a mangrove channel. The Florida Keys by Camper Van, With Baby 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Packed with teenagers, university students and other 20-somethings, this carnivalesque, neon-lit area is where on weekend nights you might find yourself dodging a stilt walker as a rock band plays nearby. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Seoul 2010-11-13T19:18:00Z Artist impressions submitted to the council show that they will be built on wooden stilts and are connected by a rope bridge. JK Rowling to build Hogwarts-style tree houses 2012-08-30T13:20:31Z They traverse — for marionettes — vast distances, because they’re operated by puppeteers who march around on stilts, wearing what appear to be space-age beekeeper suits. Arts & Leisure: ?69?S.,? Shackleton Tale, Comes to BAM Next Wave Festival 2011-10-30T03:00:38Z In the clip, Fey, whose character on 30 Rock was known to sing about food, joked about wearing a cheese romper, while Poehler says she’ll wear an “ER bandage dress with stilts.” Watch Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Joke About Golden Globes Outfits 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Drummer boys, Spanish infantas and stilt walkers all march inexorably onward like a feverish apparition. Bright Colors, Dark Subjects: Hew Locke’s Unsettling Pageant 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The dancers, stilt walkers and steel pan players who would have lit up Eastern Parkway for Carnival are being taped on Wednesday. A Thanksgiving Parade, Unfazed by Snow or Wind, Takes On a Pandemic 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z And no matter what outfit the models wore, every single one of them looked uncomfortable on those stilts. On the Runway Blog: Walking Tall on 'Project Runway' 2011-08-12T16:34:10Z Arriving at the park I heard the loud rhythms of soca and witnessed Adrian “Daddy Jumbie” Young, a well-known local expert and instructor in stilt-walking, perform flowing movements on sky-high stilts that seemed like magic. In Post-Carnival Trinidad, the Party Never Really Ends 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Deep in the woods of Wellfleet, on Cape Cod, down winding and rutted dirt roads, a summer home built in 1949 by the Modernist architect Marcel Breuer sits perched on stilts. A Celebrated Architect’s House Needs Rescuing 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z The find follows the 2008 opening of the Museum on Water, a re-created Bronze Age village built on stilts incorporating Ohrid artifacts. 2010-01-09T01:05:00Z The trail takes you through towns built on stilts to avoid storm surges, through wildlife sanctuaries, and to beautiful beaches. 10 great road trips around the world: readers’ tips 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z She lives in a comfortable Malibu home on stilts that hugs the Pacific Coast. Movie Review: ‘All the Light in the Sky,’ Directed by Joe Swanberg 2013-12-19T23:11:35Z Indeed, his human figures are abstracted into giant-eyed doll faces and stiff legs, as if walking clumsily on stilts. Is Hayao Miyazaki Gone With The Wind? 2013-09-02T19:29:07Z Floating centimeters off the ground on its recessed concrete foundation, the facade resembles the drying gray haystacks lifted on stilts in the nearby fields. In Nova Scotia, Homes as Wild as the Landscape Around Them 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Some land on another pirate’s shoulders, while others are launched wearing stilts, leading to thousands of simultaneous gasps from the audience. Circus Review: Ringling Brothers Circus at Madison Square Garden 2010-03-29T21:14:00Z Where Babe’s had been quiet, Santa’s, housed inside an old trailer set up on stilts, was bursting. Karaoke Coast to Coast 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z The lodge has 25 bungalows and a restored stilt house that was remodeled to reflect Scandinavian design elements. Going Local in Vietnam’s Villages 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z With just a few bits of string and bicycle inner-tube the New Vietnam Circus artistes build and rebuild superb, moving structures: huts, nests, stilt houses, rafts, suspension bridges and lots more. L?ng T?i (My Village) - review 2011-07-26T12:59:02Z There are Albanian mime artists on stilts and a troupe of whirling dancers from beyond the Carpathians. How I lost my festival virginity to Howard 2010-08-21T23:09:00Z Nicolas Heller, with “Bobby” and his comically long stilts — one of the characters Mr. Heller has featured on his social feeds — at Village Revival Records in Greenwich Village in New York. The ‘Unofficial Talent Scout’ Who Celebrates New York’s Colorful Side 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z They continued to worry about falling, the great embarrassment, because once down, a stilt walker can’t get up on his own. Arts & Leisure: ?69?S.,? Shackleton Tale, Comes to BAM Next Wave Festival 2011-10-30T03:00:38Z Acrobats on stilts, juggling leprechauns, dancing waters, a public wedding chapel, joyrides in a Mercedes SUV and plenty of sponsors set this music festival off the Strip apart from any other weekend destination festival. Rock in Rio is not for the Coachella crowd, but it works for Vegas 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z He made his professional debut on the European circus circuit at 13, with a boyhood education comprised of lessons in juggling, acrobatics, stilt walking and dancing on a tightrope. Circus family's patriarch marks 80th birthday 2012-06-01T10:31:05Z We crossed Broadway, ascending Fairview Avenue to Wadsworth Terrace, where the steeply rising landscape required parts of some buildings to be constructed on stilts. Walking the Heights 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Located just outside tiny Port Edward, it consists of buildings on stilts in the shallow waters of the Inverness Passage. Canada’s grand western loop around British Columbia is prime for a road trip 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z This playground was designed for children of all abilities, and the Nemcatacoa stilt walkers showed no difficulty navigating its wobbly bridges or descending its spiral slides. Dance Review: Nemcatacoa Teatro Brings Stilts to a Playground 2013-07-11T19:55:48Z You can stroll past beat-up outrigger boats, which look like showpieces from a maritime museum, and past fishermen on wooden stilts. Next Stop: In Postwar Sri Lanka, Beaches, Temples and Military Checkpoints 2010-03-12T02:50:00Z Twenty-four modular cabins on stilts with floor-to-ceiling windows invite guests to gorge themselves on wraparound views of the Catskill Mountains as they chill out in the treetops. 8 New Hotels for Winter Enthusiasts in the U.S. and Europe 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z This site includes a cafe, restaurant, old hospital, bunkhouses, shops, various kinds of lodgings and many buildings on stilts or steep staircases. Canada’s grand western loop around British Columbia is prime for a road trip 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Naomi Reis’s drawings of buildings on stilts with plants growing all over them recycle an overly familiar architectural fantasy. ‘Back to Eden,’ at the Museum of Biblical Art 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Mezzanine Beecomb is the founder of Circus Modern, a San Francisco talent brokerage for stilt walkers, contortionists and other party performers — including Santas. Santas are also in short supply this year, which leads to some intriguing alternatives 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z From their website: The demonstration will be a display of dancers, stilt walkers, acrobats, drag artistes, painters and singers. Music cuts, philanthropy, dancing in the street and more on libraries 2011-01-13T17:49:40Z Like a ventriloquist who’s on stilts, with a dummy with tiny stilts, wandering around in that mud field. Spoofing Insane Clown Posse on the Internet 2010-04-29T21:43:00Z The wildlife refuge is a wetland that provides nesting, feeding and resting habitat to the endangered Hawaiian stilt, known as aeo, and the Hawaiian coot or alae keokeo. Wildlife refuge pond in Hawaii mysteriously turns bright pink. Drought may be to blame 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z It can be a frame, a stilt, a highlighter pen. Should I button up or button down? 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z This year’s book is balanced between zany items — most hula hoops spun simultaneously on stilts — to serious science, like heaviest starfish. Longest, fastest, zaniest: Guinness World Records celebrates the ‘crazy, fun, inspiring’ 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Alternatively, those stilts could have been used for wading. ‘Weird’ Dinosaur Prompts Rethink of Bird Evolution 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z The main parade started later in the morning and featured steel drum players, stilt walkers and dancers wearing flamboyant costumes. West Indian American Day Parade steps off with steel bands, colorful costumes, stilt walkers 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z “Red wolves, a lot of times look like they’re walking on stilts because their legs are so long,” Madison says, noting they even move across the landscape differently. Takeaways from AP’s reporting on efforts to restore endangered red wolves to the wild 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z One of the suspects told deputies that the homeowner had given him permission to remove items from the house on stilts. Hurricane Idalia looters arrested as residents worry about more burglaries 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z The late-night blaze took just six minutes to rip through the centre's best-known feature - a reconstructed Iron Age roundhouse that had stood on stilts in the loch for 25 years. We are building an Iron Age village by hand 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z The bird is pink and resembles a football on short stilts. Birders flock to Green Bay to catch glimpse of Gulf Coast shorebird last seen in Wisconsin in 1845 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Just before start time, the team line kicked to AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” including pitcher Dakota Albritton on stilts. Savannah Bananas hit a home run in SoCal with their unique brand of baseball 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z The houses sit on stilts, at the foot of a mountain stacked with looming spruce trees. Starving orcas and the fate of Alaska’s disappearing king salmon 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Life begins to change after Cootie is glimpsed by a man who lives in a house on stilts and can see into Cootie’s yard and drops by to offer tamales. 'I'm a Virgo' review: A sweet coming-of-age comedy that hits on (literally) big ideas 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z In Seattle, we send winter packing with a festival, as well as a parade of body-painted naked cyclists, stilt walkers and other magical creatures. Fremont Solstice Parade 2023: What you need to know 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z There’ll be more than 60 community ensembles marching, including giant puppets, stilt walkers, floats, dancers, musicians and — perhaps the best-known parade tradition — naked cyclists. Seattle-area events: Juneteenth Week, Solstice, Father’s Day 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z A swarm of people gathered outside by the pep band and players who patiently signed autographs for another hour, even when it meant repeatedly bending down on stilts. Savannah Bananas hit a home run in SoCal with their unique brand of baseball 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z There’ll be more than 60 community ensembles marching, including giant puppets, stilt walkers, floats, dancers, musicians and — perhaps the parade’s best-known tradition — naked cyclists. Seattle-area events: A new summer festival and more 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z A few have built stilt houses that stand on columns to fight tidal floods. ‘Mangrove Man’ in India fights to salvage sinking shores 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z The contrast between tiny wooden and tabby homes on family compounds and newer, modern homes with double the square footage built atop cemented stilts is apparent. On U.S. Barrier Islands, African-Rooted Traditions Protect Against a Relentlessly Rising Ocean 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z "Unless we put our house on stilts, I'd be terrified every time it rained." Cyclone Gabrielle: The New Zealand flood victims too scared to go home 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z The hills are strewn with houses on makeshift foundations, perched on haphazard stilts and shipping containers. A chunk of Rancho Palos Verdes is sliding into the sea. Can the city stop it? 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Thousands watched the spectacle as camels, horses, ox carts, drummers and turbaned men carrying canopies walked the streets, with dancers and performers on stilts providing entertainment. Why an eight-year-old Indian diamond heiress became a nun 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z She comes marching right out the front door of the Capitol, and there's all these people on stilts and waving their bras in the air. "A lot of it was filmed without her consent": Alexandra Pelosi on the film about her mom, Nancy 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z On a small village island in the middle of the river, water encroached right up to the outlying buildings - and in some cases even underneath others perched on stilts. The Senegal man on a mission to plant five million trees 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z The house had fallen off its stilts and cracked into three separate pieces. It will be a red-tagged Christmas for those whose homes were wrecked in 6.4 quake 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Crowds lined the route across the city centre as at least 100 dancers and stilt walkers entertained spectators on what was a very cold day. Manchester: Thousands turn out for inaugural Christmas parade 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z Throngs came wearing Qatar’s colors, children wore “I love Qatar” shirts, and a man on stilts performed near the VIP entrance. Qatar says farewell to World Cup in 2-0 loss to Netherlands 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z It was like a metallic city seascape on stilts. A journey to the site of the Nord Stream explosions 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Some derided it as a monumental overreach in a place that had relied for years on more modest seawalls to protect towns like Galveston, and on perching houses on stilts. Shelter from the storm: Can a giant flood barrier protect Texas cities from hurricanes? 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Many people in this region make their homes in traditional grass huts on stilts. ‘Life Brought Me Here.’ An Island Nation Adapts to a Changing Climate 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z “So, one idea is to lift residences up on stilts three or more feet in inundation zones.” Major flood would hit Los Angeles Black communities disproportionately hard, study finds 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z By the ’30s, “bigness became him,” but he knows he’s still on stilts. Review: Cary Grant takes acid. Fiction ensues 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z There will be live dubia roaches, which grow to nearly 2 inches; Satan on stilts; a homicidal jester with sparking gloves. From scare-actors to ofrenda artists, L.A.'s October’s spooky season is back in full force 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Once, when Bruno was passing his stilt house on the Itaquaí, he fired a single shot over his head. My friend was killed deep in the Amazon forest. I went to investigate. “It’s just a bunch of big houses on stilts overlooking the ocean.” Column: California wildfires to Florida hurricanes, how the rich game climate change 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Newer, more expensive homes built on stilts to withstand a huge storm surge had fared far better. Knocking on Every Door, Rescuers Search Fort Myers Beach After Ian 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Their amusement grew when he posted a video on Instagram of floodwater rising up the stilts of the South Carolina house: It was karma for leaving, they joked. He flew his plane from Florida to escape the Hurricane. It found him in South Carolina 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z Their home is one of the few left in the neighborhood not on stilts. Key Largo is so flooded that crocodiles are swimming in the streets 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Looking out from stilt houses high atop the bluffs, the river dwellers have a clear view of everything that putters down the Itaquaí. My friend was killed deep in the Amazon forest. I went to investigate. Given where he threw the ball, he must have thought Samuel had a pair of stilts stuffed in his pads. Perspective | The Commanders put faith in Carson Wentz. Eventually, he has to reward them. 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Our boat driver soon led us through Thonburi’s network of klongs, or canals, lined with worn wooden houses, many tilting on the stilts holding them above water. Going with the flow on an impulsive trip to Thailand 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Designed by the Handspring Puppet Company based in South Africa, Amal comes to life with the help of a puppeteer on stilts inside her bamboo frame controlling strings that create the puppet's facial expressions. Giant refugee puppet joins 'huddled masses' in New York 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z And when she goes to Harlem she will listen to a drum circle performed by students from the Harlem School of the Arts and be accompanied by a stilt walker from Kotchenga Dance Company. Meet Little Amal: A puppet celebrating New York City’s roots 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z It depicts white men and women strolling in Victorian dress, Japanese abalone divers on the hunt at sea and Chinese villagers fishing in front of cabins built on wooden stilts. A racial reckoning over a festival's disrespect toward Asians in Monterey Bay: Will its demise bring healing? 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z A dancer, stilt walker, fire performer and aerialist, Rosen has performed at venues ranging from the Seattle Art Museum to NFL games. Belly-dancing students discover a welcoming community of celebration and constant movement 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z The report says that a “managed retreat” from such areas will often be considered a last resort, to be used in conjunction with other adaptations such as installing seawalls and raising houses on stilts. New Zealand climate plan includes relocating some homes 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z “Look at those black-necked stilts!” said our guide Steve Appleton, owner of LA River Kayak Safari, pointing to a flock of the delicate shorebirds gliding just inches above the water surface. You can (and should) kayak the L.A. River. Here's how 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z His final production for the RSC, in 1970, was a memorable, airborne version of A Midsummer Night's Dream using trapezes and stilts. Peter Brook: British stage directing great dies aged 97 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z After an apartment fire, Lillie was offered a house on stilts owned by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad’s depot agent. In Alabama, exploring the life and legacy of Hank Williams 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Tai O’s homes perched on stilts above its small harbor, are a picturesque remnant of skyscraper-studded Hong Kong’s past. Hong Kong fishermen keep old ways, 25 years after handover 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Dozens of wooden houses are perched on stilts. Raft by raft, a rainforest loses its trees 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z Expect the aforementioned usuals, along with snowy egrets wading under the willows, black-necked stilts scurrying along the banks and Canada geese floating nearby. You can (and should) kayak the L.A. River. Here's how 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z The parade, featuring giant puppets, stilt walkers, floats, dancers and cyclists, will start on Leary Way Northwest near Northwest 39th Street and go to Evanston Avenue North. Fremont’s Solstice Parade and Fair — and naked bicyclists! — return to Seattle 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z There is a row of a dozen wooden houses on stilts with a boardwalk running along the length of them. Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: 'A tragedy foretold' 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z It would have run from Newport Beach to above Malibu, and — if some bold-minded planners had had their way — it might have run entirely offshore, above the water, on a stilt highway. A wide median here, a stubby endpoint there — the ghosts of L.A.’s unbuilt freeways 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z With military efficiency, the team—two dozen grad students, ecologists, and veterinarians—set up a lab on the ground floor of an abandoned traditional Thai house on stilts. On the hunt for new viruses, this bat-trapping scientist hopes to prevent future pandemics 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Many homes in the city of 28,000 people stand on stilts that stretch well above the level of any previous flood in an area prone to them. Another ‘One-in-500-Year’ Flood, and a Government Not Up to the Task 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Inside a wooden house on stilts, an old woman had spent 50 years waiting. We traveled deep into the Amazon to investigate deforestation. A grisly discovery awaited us. This time, university administrators have indicated the greenhouses will be moved to higher ground or built on stilts. News at a glance: Asia’s COVID-19 surge, melting winter sea ice, and ‘inflammatory’ arXiv papers 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Much of the symbolism Silva included in the arch predates the Spanish and American colonization of the Philippines, from a shape that echoes precolonial palaces to roofing and beams that resemble traditional homes on stilts. Filipino Americans hope for more recognition with new arch in L.A.’s Historic Filipinotown 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z More centrist Democrats, recognizing the perils of that approach, have eschewed identity politics altogether and stuck with dry policy arguments — a strategy Mr. Lopez called “nonsense on stilts.” After Trump Surge, a Liberal Democrat in South Texas Shifts Tactics 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z While she drove, Crockett pointed out landmarks: the historic cemetery, the school on stilts. Volunteer pilots fly in the holiday cheer 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z In Makoko, a vast slum built on wooden stilts above Lagos Lagoon, we interviewed a number of Axemen, some of whom said they had joined against their will. The ultra-violent cult that became a global mafia 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z Fire-eating performers, elaborate face paint and stilt walkers have marked the second edition of Senegal's Great Carnival of Dakar, which showcases the culture of the country. Great Carnival of Dakar: Fire-eaters and dancers mark event 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z The baton twirlers, the stilt walkers, the marching bands, the spectators carrying toddlers wearing turkey-shaped hats at a parade back to its old self were undeniably happy. A parade returns to a city thankful for normal 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Costumes and creative signs abounded: One man on stilts was bedecked in blue fabric and cloth sea creatures. The spectacle of COP26: Inside with diplomats and carbon counters, outside with protesters and their manure 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z In Mangual, the village highest up the river, residents hunt and fish for food and live in wooden stilt houses with no electricity. In Peru's Amazon, 'forgotten' tribes discover COVID-19 as vaccines arrive 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z After groundbreaking in December 2018, the 44-million-pound steel roof was perched on 72 stilts so the entire arena beneath it could be gutted. An Arena Where the Goal Is ‘Net Zero’ Carbon Emissions, Even From Fans 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z The Parana River once lapped the banks near his wooden stilt home that he could reach by boat. Mighty river to muddy trickle: South America's Parana rings climate alarm 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z It takes three puppeteers to operate the puppet; a stilt walker who also brings her face to life and one on each of her arms. Little Amal: War Horse creators' refugee puppet lands in the UK 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Apartment blocks sit atop stilts driven metres into the ground. Russia's remote permafrost thaws, threatening homes and infrastructure 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z There are busier spots in town, perhaps above all the tourist-besieged Huxinting Teahouse, an ornate pavilion rising on stilts over a lake of lotuses. In Shanghai, Teahouses Offer Both Community and Solitude 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Mr Ross accused First Minister Nicola Sturgeon of turning the Scottish government into a "subsidy of Yes Scotland" and claimed the government was a "constitutional campaign group on stilts" focused on independence above all else. Douglas Ross promises 'Mackay's Law' to oust absent MSPs 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Four puppeteers bring Amal to life, including one inside her frame walking on stilts who also operates a complex system of strings that control the puppet's facial expressions. Puppet makes cross-Europe trek to support child refugees 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The problem for Pointe-aux-Chenes is that Ida heavily damaged a group of rental houses that stand on stilts near the marina’s docks, about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans. Louisiana’s struggling seafood industry teetering after Ida 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z At first the home was raised 30 centimetres off the ground on its stilt foundations. Russia's remote permafrost thaws, threatening homes and infrastructure 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Homes — which locals refer to as "camps" — and businesses are ripped apart, and in some cases, just stilts remain. Future of remote Louisiana community uncertain after mass devastation from Hurricane Ida 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z But the main floor of the house, which stands on stilts, was remarkably dry and the roof seemed fine. Life in Louisiana’s boot challenging, adventuresome post-Ida 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z In Lafitte, a small community south of Crown Point, even homes on stilts were flooded and residents had to use boats to navigate the submerged streets and retrieve their belongings. Ida inundates areas around New Orleans while sparing city 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z In addition, the western portion of the building stood on columns, as if on stilts, elevated above the surface-level parking lot. How a collapsed pool deck could have caused a Florida condo building to fall “People were getting sick everywhere, and we were scared,” recalled Ashanga, a boatman in Belen, a port district of bustling street stalls and homes on stilts. Pandemic-era Latin America: Inequality, despair, upheaval — and a potential lost generation of youth 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Homes in Buckland are built on stilts, and officials reported that water levels have come up to the bottom of homes, but have not gotten into anyone’s homes very much, Zidek said. Widespread flooding reported in northwest Alaska community 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z The first show, a masked street theatre act performed on stilts with another arts group, took place over the weekend at Budapest’s City Park. Fire-juggling at home? Lockdown easing a relief for Hungarian circus artists 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Costumed artists strutted on stilts while others played drums and brass instruments to recreate the magic of Carnival. AP PHOTOS: Rio de Janeiro artists languish in online exile 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z "We're training the character performers, teaching them how to walk like cowboys, how to interact. The dinosaurs have all woken up and are moving again. The stilt walkers out again," she says. 'Lockdown taught us we're more than just a gym' 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Held above the sand by nine-foot-high stilts, which made it one of the taller structures on the beach at the time, it offered unbroken views of the Atlantic. In Southampton, a Beach House Not Like the Others 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z Today, tourism dominates Avon, a hamlet of T-shirt shops and cedar-shake mansions on stilts lining the oceanfront. Tiny Town, Big Decision: What Are We Willing to Pay to Fight the Rising Sea? 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z They dwell in houses built on stilts, grow vegetables in floating gardens and travel in long, narrow wooden boats. Myanmar May Target Free Speech in Effort to Stifle Protests 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z There were a Native American female color guard; the Fire Department of New York Emerald Society Pipes and Drums band; Chinese American lion and dragon dancers; a steel band and stilt dancers from the U.S. Trump treated the arts as an adversary. Biden's first day told a different story 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z A few would draft a baseball pitching machine on stilts if it somehow looked them in the eye and offered a firm handshake. Will N.F.L. Teams Learn the Right Lessons From Josh Allen’s Success? 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z They joined a middle-aged man sweating through a rainbow unicorn outfit and a clown teetering on stilts. ‘I didn’t make it’ 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Some hide in the stilts under their homes. In Malaysia's Sabah, pandemic rages as migrants flee testing 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z “They’re just comical. I can be totally entertained by a group of stilts for a long time,” White said. Former editor doesn’t regret his move to photography 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z The public library in the community of Cameron looked like a fortress on stilts, built after the parish’s main branch had been destroyed by Rita and then again by Ike. After Storms, They Built Higher. They Dread Doing It Again. 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z The Wall Street Journal once described him as a “penguin on stilts.” Nikola Jokic Plays Basketball as if It’s Water Polo 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Kitcheo said while she expects her street to be impassable after storm surge also flooded neighborhood roadways, her home is 18 feet above the ground on stilts. Tropical Storm Beta takes aim at Texas, Louisiana as Gulf Coast sees storm surge, flooding 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z The lightning struck a wooden stilt house under which people were eating in Cambodia’s northwestern Battambang province on Thursday evening. Lightning kills 7 in Cambodia, storm hits land in Vietnam 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z For almost everybody else, it is nonsense on stilts, as the 7,000 Marks & Spencer workers earmarked for redundancy over the next three months would readily testify. The only V-shaped recovery after coronavirus will be in the stock markets | Larry Elliott 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z One image of the blazes released by Horry County Fire Rescue showed smoldering stilts where a home used to be standing. Fires burn North Carolina homes in town where Isaias made landfall 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z They traveled in dug-out canoes and stayed with an Indigenous Emberá community, sleeping side by side in a thatched home on stilts. British journalist Jo Tuckman dies in Mexico after illness 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z In the small town of Montgomery, Ohio, there's set to be a "reverse parade" where motorists will drive past a stationary show featuring the usual marching band, stilt walkers and floats. Why this 4 July will be unlike any other 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z For their sophomore, junior and half of their senior years, they attended trailer classrooms on stilts the school system installed on the middle school parking lot. Seniors reflect on unconventional career at WV high school 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z In isolated settlements built on stilts along the river, most households survive on fishing and harvesting local fruits, earning just a few dollars a day. As COVID-19 races up the Amazon River, health services struggle to keep up 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Walking on stilts, he reached for a flower from a tree in full spring bloom near the National Garden. AP PHOTOS: Europeans reclaim cafes, parks as virus eases 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z The platform also gave the younger reporters “freedom to establish their own stilts in ways we didn’t have without someone handing us the keys,” said Trymaine Lee, then 35 and reporting for MSNBC. Inside the Revolts Erupting in America’s Big Newsrooms 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z Kimble has had to raise her house twice on stilts due to the threat of flooding in an area prone to storms and coastal erosion accelerated by the climate crisis. 'I pray to God it never happens again': Gulf coast bears the scars of historic oil spill 10 years on 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z All things considered, the students said they liked going to the Hoover on stilts. Seniors reflect on unconventional career at WV high school 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Relatives still live in the wooden stilt houses that line the black, polluted rivers running into Guajará Bay. 'We're abandoned to our own luck': coronavirus menaces Brazil's favelas 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The day before Tuesday’s unsuccessful dive attempts, the team gathered around a picnic table beneath a beachy-pink building on stilts at Dauphin Island Sea Lab. Creatures in This Underwater Forest Could Save Your Life One Day 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z In the vast Makoko slum, where shacks are built on stilts and sewage runs into the sea, residents listened with a mix of fear and defiance. From Dhaka to Gaza: How do you socially distance in a crowd? 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z The huts were raised on stilts for protection from poisonous reptiles and from flooding during monsoon storms; pigs and chickens lived in the shade below. How Disaster Aid Ravaged an Island People 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z That great room is the crown of Wilkinson’s surreal five-bedroom design, a riff on Los Angeles’ singular cliffside properties that the architect likens to “spaceships on stilts,” floating above the city’s glittering grid. Clive Wilkinson designed Google's inventive campus. His home is a surreal blast 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Little wooden shacks on stilts sit on top of dark water. 'I live in a floating slum' 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The family lived under their house, which was on stilts, and simply moved to the garden whenever shelling started. The Battle of Manila 75 years later: Benjamin Hall’s father’s story 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Twelve hours later, the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office found Torrent by helicopter Wednesday morning, he was waving at them from a stilt home near the mouth of the Pithlachascotee River. Animal Lover: Rescued jet skier says he lost ski saving bird 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Twelve hours later, the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office found Torrent by helicopter Wednesday morning, he was waving at them from a stilt home near the mouth of the Pithlachascotee River. Animal Lover: Rescued jet skier says he lost ski saving bird 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z They have tethered their goats to sheds on stilts. Adapting to Rising Seas, Schools Move to the Rafters and Cats Swim 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z As for KeyArena naming rights: There’s no arena to name yet, just a roof sitting atop stilts. Is NHL Seattle dragging its feet? Here’s how it stacks up vs. the Vegas Golden Knights’ franchise launch 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z At one point the complex even boasted a preschool, elevated on stilts and shaped like the Jetsons’ house. Mexico City residents displaced by earthquake finally home 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Torrent said he tried to swim to it but got tired because of the heavy current, so he swam to an empty stilt house and broke into it. Animal Lover: Rescued jet skier says he lost ski saving bird 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Torrent said he tried to swim to it but got tired because of the heavy current, so he swam to an empty stilt house and broke into it. Animal Lover: Rescued jet skier says he lost ski saving bird 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Tucker became their starting center and even joked about it on social media, posting a photo of himself wearing stilts. Rockets go small, outlast the big Lakers 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z But in seconds the stadium was transformed into a giant temple, replete with torches, snakehead drummers and men on stilts. Shakira? J. Lo? This Halftime Show Had Snakes and Indiana Jones 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z An ant that arrived at the food source and then was given a set of stilts took the correct number of strides back to the nest. Navigational secrets of the desert ant 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Torrent offered to repair the damages to the stilt home but police said he won’t face any charges. Animal Lover: Rescued jet skier says he lost ski saving bird 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Torrent offered to repair the damages to the stilt home but police said he won’t face any charges. Animal Lover: Rescued jet skier says he lost ski saving bird 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z His legs are stilts, and his face, journalists have pointed out, is that of an Abercrombie & Fitch model. After the fall: can Alexander Zverev bounce back to tennis stardom? 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z The Military, Civic and Fireman’s Parade is more Mayberry than Magic Kingdom, with war veterans, unicyclists, stilt walkers, marching bands, antique cars and floats designed by local businesses, churches and Roger Williams University. Coachella, Art Basel, Comic-Con: The country’s big annual events are, well, big. Check out these lesser-known alternatives. 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Actors on stilts, costumed as larger-than-life animals — ducks, peacocks, giraffes — infiltrate the dance floor and are enveloped by the crowd. Watch an Empty Warehouse Become a Psychedelic Party Wonderland 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z “I’m building my own state fair with oversized games, carnival food, tons of performers, firebreathers, stilt walkers, sword swallowers. I got it all.” Shaq planning Miami-flavored carnival for Super Bowl party 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z A company called Novanatural.com sells a set of wooden stilts for ages 6 and up in oak hardwood for $64. Beautiful and magical: Classic wooden toys are the best holiday gifts | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Kiku, now a wiry 68-year-old, secures our dinghy to the muddy bank below his village and brokers introductions to the people emerging, curious, from a cluster of stilt huts and the surrounding bush. Refugees on their own land: the West Papuans in limbo in Papua New Guinea 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Her father raises the stilts of their bamboo hut so water from the sea doesn’t reach the floor. Rising seas threaten early end for sinking village in Philippines 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Gunn complained that pooling water had made it into his tent overnight and mused that they needed “tents on stilts.” Homeless people are soaked, but L.A. won't open winter shelters until December 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z “We talked about moving, but here, it’s a special place,” said Gloria Benitez-Perez, whose husband is in the construction business and built their house on stilts. Amid flooding and rising sea levels, residents of one barrier island wonder if it’s time to retreat 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z The neighbor was a citizen observer with a small weather station outside the nursing home he ran - a white, louvered box on stilts, Johnson says, with two thermometers inside and a rain gauge outside. Nebraska weather observer honored for decades of service 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z So we built this house on stilts that the rising tides can flow under.” After a fierce flood, a Fidalgo Island couple raises the bar for resiliency by setting their modern new home on concrete piers 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z “Because only a handful of them can be living in houseboats or homes on stilts.” Scientists triple their estimates of the number of people threatened by rising seas 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z I wanted to use stilts but also show how they were attached to the arms of the dancers. Julie Taymor: how we made The Lion King musical 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Howard Hughes asked Vongerichten to install a restaurant inside Pier 17, a boxy mall on stilts that they were building over the East River. The Jean-Georges Recipe for Restaurants 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z On many a street corner, often under a shade tree, stood what looked like a dollhouse on stilts. Water, Water Everywhere Quenched Myanmar’s Thirst. Then the Clay Pots Disappeared. 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z She said her home, located along a creek, was not in danger of flooding as it sits on stilts, like many others nearby. Imelda deluges parts of Texas with rain, spawns tornadoes 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z She added that her home, which is along a creek, sits on stilts and, therefore, was not in danger of flooding. Hurricane Humberto edges closer to Bermuda as Tropical Depression Imelda drenches Texas 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Many of Newport Beach’s original homes sat right on the beach, propped up on stilts. Newsletter: In the Carolinas, a hurricane rages on 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Houses in the valley are built on small wooden stilts instead of deep foundations. On the front lines of climate change in the world's northernmost town 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z A group of Chinese tourists arrived, paying a bit more than the standard fee so that they could climb on to the stilts to be photographed. Struggling Sri Lankans yearn for a strongman to lure back lost tourists 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Built in the colonizer’s traditional style, on the ground instead of on stilts, the church floods after big rains, and parishioners must stand in stagnant pools throughout the service because their benches are underwater. Review | As a language dies, who will mourn? Should anyone? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z It’s nonsense on stilts, as Jeremy Bentham said. Barney Frank Defends Nancy Pelosi From Her Critics 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Luxury villas built on wooden stilts stretch far into the rainforest. Property speculators hope for investment paradise in southwest China 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Minutes later, it resolves into an elevated building on stilts, surrounded by absolutely nothing to distinguish it from the wilderness around it. The Last Good Gig:
A Summer at the South Pole 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z “I just like being a pretend stilt fisherman,” he said. Struggling Sri Lankans yearn for a strongman to lure back lost tourists 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Features: The 2013 house is one of the many colorful houses on stilts along the Bolivar Peninsula, a 27-mile stretch of land in the Gulf of Mexico north of Galveston. 12 stunning homes for sale near water 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Some posed for selfies with performers on stilts, while others tried their best to avoid clowns who were juggling fire. Sheer spectacle: Paris is the real star of menswear shows 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Pride parade along Santa Monica Boulevard that featured colorful floats and people dancing, singing, walking on stilts and some riding penny-farthing bicycles and electric scooters. Thousands turn out for L.A. Pride: 'Forget the president. Let's do our own thing' 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z The shop was rebuilt on its stilts about a year later and today is more successful than ever, co-owner Todd Flores said. Storm season brings new dread while forgotten towns rebuild 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Australia’s entry features an ice princess on stilts; Iceland’s is a Viking apparently slaughtering a geodesic dome. Tel Aviv, in Need of Distraction, Hosts the Eurovision Song Contest 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Regulars here include osprey, long-necked stilts, herons, cormorants, hawks and varieties of ducks and geese. L.A. Walks: The grittiest L.A. River path you’ve never heard of 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z In the back yard of our Los Angeles compound, the adults built a wooden pyramid, big enough to hold about twenty kids, small stilts raising it a few feet off the ground. My Childhood in a Cult 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Naquin pressed on, working with nonprofits and the state to develop a plan for a community with homes on stilts, a bayou, grocer, tribal museum, green space for powwows and grazing land for buffalo. On a sinking Louisiana island, a historic tribal land, many aren’t ready to leave 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Preservationists, who once focused on the historical accuracy of window materials, are now confronted with whether or not to remove statues, raise vulnerable buildings on stilts or relocate entire communities. Talking about climate change in conservative places is hard. But we can’t afford not to 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z A few years ago, Wolkowsky decided to test the market by putting the solar-powered, subtropical refuge - which includes a modern stilt house, a guest house and a workshop - up for sale. ‘Mr. Key West’ quietly donated his private island 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z In Petaluma, California, residents are deeply divided over a proposed installation titled “Fine Balance,” which features Victorian claw-foot bathtubs on stilts. Recent Kansas Editorials 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z A jaguar slunk along the floor, occasionally rubbing against the pant legs of a politician, a macaw on stilts fussed with a well-dressed woman’s hair, a frog photo-bombed bystanders. Tiny Costa Rica Has a Green New Deal, Too. It Matters for the Whole Planet. 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Initially, Beijing announced that it was building shelters on stilts there for fishermen. Philippine Official, Fearing War With China, Seeks Review of U.S. Treaty 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Wood is used not just for those masks, but for the houses, many propped up on stilts to keep mice at bay. Masks come out in Swiss 'valley of monsters' 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z That, or given his current paucity of defenders, the Spaniard may be handed a pair of stilts and asked to do a job in the centre of defence. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Now that requires a radical change, one exponentially more difficult than putting your desk on stilts. Forget standing desks: to stay healthy, you've got to move all day 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z The office tower itself, however, would step back from St. Patrick’s, rising on 52nd Street atop two stems or stilts, near 400 feet above the sidewalks. The Empire State Building May Soon Have Another Rival on the Skyline 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Brief passages involved stilts, aerial maneuvers and more gymnastics, but they weren’t sustained long enough to function as showpiece distractions. Review: In 'The Great Tamer,' a bleak world of hurt rises from the UCLA stage 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z “It looked like he was walking on stilts.” Federal indictment reveals new details — and a possible accomplice — in faux-billionaire’s fraud case 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z We would go over to his house and play with the agility games he made for us out of cans attached to string made into stilts, leather and metal brain teasers he fashioned for us. Essential California: With crime up, some want to roll back justice reforms 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Next, they raised themselves up, as if on stilts, and lifted their hind legs. The Wasp Wants a Zombie. The Cockroach Says ‘No’ With a Karate Kick. 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z There were craft tables and blow-up ghosts and a person walking on stilts. Opinion | After Hurricane Michael, we are homesick on our own streets 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z He once struck a seriema, a terrestrial bird that resembles a roadrunner on stilts, and he collided with a parakeet while riding his motorcycle. In Brazil, Animals Cross a Road of No Return 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z The hotel was raised on thick concrete stilts, like massive legs: Really, it was an engineering marvel. Can Poland’s Faded Brutalist Architecture Be Redeemed? 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z While some locals owned posh homes that overlooked the beach on stilts, many lived in mobile homes. Could rebuilding ruin ‘mom-and-pop’ Florida beach town? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z The foundation stilts remained, but almost nothing else — she found the peach and aqua tiles from her floors across the street, and she began hunting for the brand-new refrigerator. ‘It’s all gone’: Tiny Florida beach town nearly swept away by Hurricane Michael 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z They largely stayed dry, mostly because they are on stilts. Neighboring Gulf towns see different sides of storm’s fury 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z They largely stayed dry, mostly because they are on stilts. Neighboring Gulf towns see different sides of storm's fury 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z They largely stayed dry, mostly because they are on stilts. Neighboring Gulf towns see different sides of storm’s fury 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z They are the bankers, politicians and wall street brokers that nightmares are made of and they are propelled, half-ragged and aghast, into the spotlight by performers — some on stilts that resemble decaying wooden crutches. Philip Glass' opus 'Satyagraha' brings collective communion — and otherworldly puppets — to L.A. Opera - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z While in Hanoi, he visited the stilt house of Ho Chi Minh and wrote in the visitors’ book at the compound that he felt “humble” before the “great” Vietnamese leader. There’s a crack at the heart of Facebook’s advertising business 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z “When he went to get up, he couldn’t get up. He used his saxophone as a kind of a stilt to be able to stand up.” 'Big Jay' McNeely, whose honking tenor saxophone style helped turn R&B into rock 'n' roll, has died 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Burdette spent Thursday and Friday trying to save his home, which sits on stilts. Hurricane Florence Hits Eastern North Carolina, “the Cesspool of the United States” 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Surprisingly, given the country’s traditional Catholic leanings, there was a contingent of trans people, one of whom strode through the crowd on stilts. “Fake News” and Unrest in Nicaragua 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z But raising her house on stilts seemed silly if her car and the road were still on the ground. Surrendering to Rising Seas 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Dogs still trapped in wooden stilt houses howled for their owners. 'Not enough time to get out': Laos village caught in burst dam deluge 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z There are a few dirt roads between villages that sit on stilts along rivers snaking through the rain forest. The $20 Billion Question for Guyana 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Side streets are lined with flower-shrouded bungalows, cottages on stilts and stucco villas. Hop on the Train to Long Beach for a Summer Escape From New York City 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The moon bounces, stilt walker, caterer, event planner and the DJ, Diamond Kuts, were all in place at a recent Belmont Mansion send-off. Not your parents’ prom: Philly’s elaborate send-off culture 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Waving an American flag, Mr. Poland donned a beard, flag-printed pants and a sequined, flag-printed top hat — and completed his outfit with stilts that elevated him to well over eight feet. For Washington Capitals Fans, a Celebration Worth the Wait 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z As Inpon fruitlessly mopped the porch of his waterlogged house, a young family evacuated their stilt home in the rain. 'Not enough time to get out': Laos village caught in burst dam deluge 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The tour ended outside the town’s community center, where all types of townspeople gathered to watch a man dance on stilts alongside a large, inflatable Pokémon character for the children. Israelis Play Tourists in a Bedouin Town in the Negev 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Instead, he dances on his four-foot drywall stilts and impresses with the costume, which cost about $1,500 to make. Ultra LED Man goes from school project to Delaware club act 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z Numbering about 30,000, they now live in hundreds of impoverished settlements in open-sided stilt homes perched at the edge of the region’s streams and rivers. AIDS Runs Rampant in Venezuela, Putting an Ancient Culture at Risk 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Around Tumaco, where wood and tin shacks rise on stilts above meandering estuaries, the scramble for control spawned bloodshed. Special Report: A fractured peace – violent rivals rush into FARC... 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z They have traditionally lived on houseboats; in recent times, they’ve also built houses on stilts in coastal waters. Bodies Remodeled for a Life at Sea 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z They live either on boats or in huts perched on stilts on shallow reefs, and they migrate from place to place in flotillas that carry entire clans. A group of people with an amphibious life have evolved traits to match 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z A woman climbed onto a wooden barricade to snap photos of people tottering by on stilts. Washington celebrates a day for marching and remembering 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The men were sitting in a palm-thatched hut perched on stilts on the edge of a branch of the Orinoco River. AIDS Runs Rampant in Venezuela, Putting an Ancient Culture at Risk 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Reports of his remarks on Twitter over the weekend were dismissed by Mr Gardiner as "nonsense on stilts". Good Friday deal 'played up in Brexit talks' 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z The white friends from Milwaukee stood on 10-foot stilts, Davis dressed as Lady Liberty and McCarthy as Lady Justice, their long colored robes whipping in the wind. On the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, faith groups rally to combat systemic racism 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z “Walking on stilts, your life depends on the floor being clean,” Lough says. Opinion | Yet another clown wants to go to Congress 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Both he and Carvalho work at the Maré Museum, a community project that documents how the favela once consisted of wooden shacks on stilts above the sea. Marielle Franco: Brazil’s favelas mourn the death of a champion 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z "Many of these homes are built on stilts on the mountainside so every single one collapsed," Ms Allen told the BBC. A disaster unfolding out of sight in PNG 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Udin said he has had to raise his wooden house higher on its stilts twice in recent years. Sinking shoreline threatens coastal communities in Indonesia 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z In 2009, it promised a scheme of chalets on stilts would be “opening soon” on the islands of Buenos Aires, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile and the Falklands, complete with swimming pools and tennis courts. Not the end of The World: the return of Dubai's ultimate folly 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Chocó is one of the country’s poorest regions: riverbanks are lined with wooden shacks, many on stilts to protect them from flooding. Farc deal opens path for Colombia's other rebels: 'The future has to be about war' 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Are they considering chopping down a nearby forest or putting their houses up on stilts? Which works better: climate fear, or climate hope? Well, it's complicated 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z So why are shoppers walking right past the cheaper, nimbler and more fuel-efficient traditional hatchbacks and buying the ones on stilts? Edmunds: Are Hatchbacks Better Than Crossovers? 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Udin said he has had to raise his wooden house higher on its stilts twice in recent years. Sinking shoreline threatens coastal communities in Indonesia 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Houses near the lagoon are built on stilts to protect against seasonal rains, but now, because of the dam, they are prone to flooding throughout the year, he says. Battling a tide of sewage in Brazil: ‘For 17 days we lived with our feet under water’ | Ciro Barros and Iuri Barcelos 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z There will be floats, marching bands and clowns on stilts. The Mishaps and Milestones of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Spending a trillion dollars to put all houses up on stilts seems not only rational by practical. Trump Ignores Climate Change. That’s Very Bad for Disaster Planners. 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Should customers also be upset that the illustration seems to encourage jumping in mall fountains, surfing down escalators and walking on massive stilts made of spoons? Kellogg's apologizes for lone brown character — a janitor — on Corn Pops box 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z In Otodo Gbame, where thousands of fishermen’s houses that stood on stilts above the sea were razed, tonnes of sand have been dumped on top of the bulldozed ruins, creating more land ripe for development. Lagos biennial holds mirror to gentrification as squatters evicted 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z The accommodation sits on stilts over the water and the resort is powered with solar panels and a small, portable generator. Waiting for the tide to turn: Kiribati's fight for survival 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z Houses built in the last few decades, including ours, are on stilts. After Irma, our Florida island is getting aid. But what about the Caribbean? | David Blanchflower 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Spike strutted through the tall grass as if on stilts. A 50-year effort to raise endangered whooping cranes comes to an end 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z The property is also on stilts, and was not badly damaged. Cudjoe Key: the Florida community that was Hurricane Irma's ground zero 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Employees of the local J&D Entertainment Co. showed up too, dressed as Cinderella, Snow White and Belle, as well as Alice in Wonderland--on stilts. Houston After Harvey 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The prototype of a sort of double-wide subway car on stilts, was completed a few months later and given a test run, with regular passenger vehicles driving underneath. Is Elon Musk's plan for a road network beneath LA more than a pipe dream? 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Each extended family – or clan – occupied their own jetty, and the makeshift settlements grew as relatives emigrated and added to the stilt homes interconnected by a wooden walkway. 'Unesco-cide': does world heritage status do cities more harm than good? 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z All the houses in their neighborhood are built on stilts, so the Bowdens and their neighbors weren’t worried about flooding, and local officials did not issue a mandatory evacuation order. Harvey delivers heavy damage as it batters Texas coast 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Explore kid-friendly replicas of traditional Native homes, including an Amazonian stilt house adorned with photos by indigenous youth from the region. D.C. community calendar, July 27-Aug. 2, 2017 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Many raised their homes on stilts, or mined local reefs for coral to raise floor levels after frequent floods at high tide in homes, schools and other buildings. Home sweet home: islanders stay put even when the sea invades 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Its plain, boxy buildings sit on stilts to prevent their thawing the permafrost below. Making igloos: a vanishing art in the Arctic 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Its plain, boxy buildings sit on stilts to prevent thawing the permafrost below. A Lost Art in the Arctic: Igloo Making 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Scared of returning home, the family moved from their home on stilts to the main town, along with 31 other families from the area where the shoot-out happened. Caught in the crossfire of armed gangs in Colombia - BBC News 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z The parade is a one-of-a-kind event with 60 community-based costumed ensembles with giant puppets, stilt walkers, floats, dancers, cyclists and musicians, all with no written words, animals or motorized vehicles. It’s time for the Fremont Solstice Parade 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Many raised their homes on stilts, or mined local reefs for coral to raise floor levels after frequent floods at high tide in homes, schools and other buildings. Home sweet home: islanders stay put even when the sea invades 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Rosalie, 14, lived with her family in a riverside stilt house. After the cyclone: the Madagascan village forging new life from the ruins 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z In "Bubble Jumper", players walking on stilts and wearing inflatable bubble protectors crash into each other like sumo wrestlers. Japan's 'Superhuman' athletes mix legends with high tech 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z The costume required Kendalyn to wear stilts and learn how to walk on them. Student deals with autism by making elaborate costumes 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z The show was inspired by a West Coast music and arts festival, complete with musicians, drum circle players, roller skaters, skateboarders, fire dancers stilt walkers, Hula-hoop illusionists and unicyclists. Gigi Hadid renews contract with Tommy Hilfiger for 2 more seasons 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Director Cara Gabriel capitalizes on that specificity in her production, which unfurls on, and around, an evocation of a wooden house built on stilts over the sea. Review | You won’t soon forget ‘Forgotten Kingdoms’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Architect Karen Pickering says: "He built the Grecian Chambers then he excavated underneath the existing villa. So the villa is actually sitting on stilts. surrounded by other buildings." Greek Thomson: Scotland's other great visionary architect - BBC News 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Kipling’s childhood home in 19th-century India inspired “Jungle Book” scenic designer Daniel Ettinger, reminding him of the backyard playhouses on stilts popular in America. Theater for children: What’s on Washington-area stages this spring 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z The front legs were aluminum stilts wrapped in foam and black cloth. Student deals with autism by making elaborate costumes 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Raising consumption taxes on top of that — against the ferocious opposition of the retail sector — will be Guadalcanal on stilts. Can GOP learn from failure and tackle tax reform? 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z I was walking on different kinds of stilts, and we were changing those out all the while. Dan Stevens channels his beastly side in 'Beauty and the Beast' prologue dance 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Tannery workers live in small, hot steel-walled rooms perched on precarious stilts above creeks of raw sewage and mounds of stinking scraps. Report examines grim Bangladesh leather trade, links to West 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Stevens’ costume consisted of stilts and a cumbersome grey muscle suit that the visual effects people would eventually use to morph him into the Beast in post-production. 'Beauty's' Beast Dan Stevens breaks out behind the effects 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z She and her stepdad constructed custom-made stilts for the back legs. Student deals with autism by making elaborate costumes 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Aspiring 747 pilots were specially trained to taxi the large aircraft by riding in a mock-up of the plane’s flight deck boosted on three-story-tall stilts in a moving truck. Once the queen of the skies, the 747 will soon be just a flying truck 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Among the things, we learned he walked on stilts to re-create the classic creature, plus how he channeled his mean Prince side in the new prologue. Dan Stevens channels his beastly side in 'Beauty and the Beast' prologue dance 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z We are forever pushing earth, pontooning waters and building roads on stilts in feats of daring engineering, only to find ourselves with bigger problems that require even bolder daring. On the eve of the Alaskan Way Viaduct’s demolition, a look back at what we love – and love to hate – about it 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Originally, they were to have been vertical stilts, but wound up looking more like Henry Moore sculptures than hard-working structural elements. Abba Tor, Who Engineered T.W.A. Terminal at Kennedy Airport, Dies at 93 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Walking past the Iron Men, Hulks and Minions that beckoned to her in Times Square, Ana López stopped when she encountered Lady Liberty, whose green robes fluttered as she balanced herself on stilts. 35 Women and One Man’s Freedom 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z A crater gaped in the street; a metal cistern raised on stilts was spewing water. The Desperate Battle to Destroy ISIS 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Jan. 28 with events that include stilt walking, balloon twisting and fan dancing. Something to crow about: Luxury brands and local shopping centers celebrate the Year of the Rooster 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z “We were playing with it getting frighteningly surreal. Maybe there’s, like, thousands of versions of your girlfriend, and one of them is on stilts, and one of them is a goth—” The Movie with a Thousand Plot Lines 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Amenities include a stroller valet, moon bounces, face painters, roaming stilt walkers and magicians, crafting stations and much more. 14 things to do in the D.C. area on New Year’s weekend 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Three thousand years ago, a cluster of roundhouses built on stilts over the river were destroyed by fire. Big digs: The year 2016 in archaeology - BBC News 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z “He built stilts for the kids to race with. He built modern airplanes and sent a cat off the roof with a parachute — safely.” S. Newman Darby, Inventor of the Sailboard, Dies at 88 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z A few days later, Burtynsky filmed at Makoko—a shantytown with the population of a small city, where people live in houses propped on stilts over Lagos Lagoon. Edward Burtynsky’s Epic Landscapes 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z At the back of a warehouse in Oakland, above an old RV, Marsh hoisted his bed up a 12-foot ladder to a piece of plywood atop four wooden stilts. Before the deadly fire, Ghost Ship was an an enchanting 'safe place' that many called home 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z He crossed blindfolded, he crossed on stilts and he crossed with his manager on his back. Confessions of an Amateur Tightrope Walker 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Spencer describes the game as like sumo on stilts - but will he survive the first bout? Going for a knockout with bubble jumping - BBC News 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The Ministry of Education, as part of its recommendations for physical development, recommends that schools supply unicycles, bamboo stilts, hula hoops and other equipment that promotes balance and core strength. Tools to Help Japanese Schoolchildren Find Balance: Unicycles 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Rauschenberg took to performing himself: in the 1965 piece, Spring Training, he followed 30 turtles with torches attached to their shells, walking on to the stage on stilts. Robert Rauschenberg: ‘He was just something to be around’ 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z He climbed up to his perch and took in the surrounding of trailers and stilt houses, a burgeoning art colony. Before the deadly fire, Ghost Ship was an an enchanting 'safe place' that many called home 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z He seemed frail, keeping his legs wide and stiff as if running on stilts. Still Running at 119? Not So Fast. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Created by the Superhuman Sports Society, the game is played wearing stilts with a giant plastic bubble suit around you. Going for a knockout with bubble jumping - BBC News 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Before long, kids were tossing embroidery hoops to each other using wooden rods in a game of “graces,” or wobbling around the schoolyard on stilts. Students spend ‘day of pretend’ at pioneer schoolhouse 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Performers on stilts, dressed as Count Dracula, haunt the grounds some days. Not a Big Fan of Dracula: The Owner of This Romanian Castle 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z The Times described Lazarus as "pretentious rubbish" and "nonsense on stilts". Lazarus: David Bowie musical receives mixed reviews on London transfer - BBC News 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z The vehicle would levitate above the track, which is likely to be built on stilts above the ground. Hyperloop may become reality in Dubai - BBC News 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Perhaps he will join some circus wlking on stilts, once we oust him as our Mayor. As Evening Commute Gets Darker, It Also Gets More Dangerous, Officials Warn 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z A narrow alley is flanked by wooden houses on stilts in Chew Jetty, known as one of the last bastions of Chinese settlements on the island of Penang. Malaysia in Photos 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Unlike the outdoor huts Jews construct on the holiday, Samaritans build exquisite canopies of densely packed fruit, which are attached to metal frames and perched on stilts or suspended from living room ceilings. In the West Bank, Samaritans provide a sanctuary 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Last year, after the signs disappeared in the middle of the night, Mr. Sabin placed them on stilts and surrounded them with a 6,600-volt electrified fence. Magnate’s Twin Goals: Fighting Climate Change and Electing Donald Trump 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z The station is a remote scientific outpost dotted with soft-sided dormitories shaped like Quonset huts, outhouses on stilts and labs in rectangular modular buildings. Six Scientists, 1,000 Miles, One Prize: The Arctic Bumblebee 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z “Tourists take the children out, to the zoo or downtown,” said the head of one orphanage of 16 children, a small wooden house built on stilts in flooded fields. 'Orphanage tourism': fears of child exploitation boom as Myanmar opens up 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z |
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