"Here's this heavy metaphysical painting with a father figure whose head could be bobbed up and down like a yo-yo, played with, or dropped, " Ms. Fort says.
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So what is the answer to my question - have you got a figure in your head?
The economic boom, which gives him money to burn, may peter out, and legislators may have second thoughts about creating such a figure at the head of the state.
Ten minutes later he walks out from behind a row of bushes, a stooped figure with his head down, wearing large black galoshes and holding a closed umbrella at his side while the rain pours down onto a limp fishing hat.
Though I laughed at the warning sign depicting a stick-figure falling head-first off the cliffs, I made sure to keep a safe distance from the drop-off for fear that the wind might actually propel me over.
There was a photograph, a coat thrown over the head and shoulders of a figure being led away, a wrist handcuffed to that of a uniformed garda.
"George Nassau, Third Earl Cowper" (1772-3) is another of the artist's masterpieces a bold formal portrait of a standing figure holding his hat above his head in a gesture that might be awkward, but somehow isn't.
The fairgrounds were full of duct-tape sculptures, such as a 20ft-tall Mr Potato Head toy, a Transformers action figure, and an old-fashioned red viewfinder.
The BBC's Andrew Harding, at the scene, said the defendant cut a lonely figure, holding his head forward and breathing heavily through tears.
Here was the Goldman Sachs president defending a leading political figure, the head of the European Central Bank for stabilizing European markets and the economy.
Warnings have gone too to another dissident, Leonel Morejon, a leading figure in the Cuban Council, a group that raised its head some years ago to the point of being soundly smacked down when it tried to meet publicly in February 1994.
Yet John Meriwether, the hedge fund's founder and a former head of trading at Salomon Brothers, remains a shady figure.
Or there is the comparison of nurses per head of population, where a figure for UK population was divided by a figure for the number of nurses - obtained from the Department of Health in London.
And as Hirohito was the only plausible candidate, he was repositioned as a concerned, avuncular figure, stripped of power and of military titles but endowed with the symbols of a head of state.
Under the new law this group is to make recommendations to Congress on how to reduce the rate of growth in spending per head in Medicare if that expenditure exceeds a target figure.
When I pass a sign I'll do math in my head to figure out exactly how many minutes it should take me to get there, just as an exercise to keep my mind working.
The head editor is Owen Thomas, a well-known figure in the Silicon Valley technology scene, having been an editor of Venturebeat, NBC Bay Area and Gawker site Valleywag.
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Another main figure in the case was Irina Jianu, former head of a state construction agency, who was found innocent on charges of money laundry and bribery.
"I don't have the exact figure, but it's a lot, " said Apple's head of tax operations.
It will not disappear and it will reach a point that the present head of Facebook will be forced to have another figure overseeing him as the key CEO of the company.
Out of the corner of his eye, he thought he saw a stooped figure at the end of the street, but when he turned his head he saw only shrubs in the fog.
"It's a simple concept: Own a bunch of good companies and figure out their fair value, " says Stewart, head of his eponymous investment management firm W.P.
Mr Khatib, who was elected head of the National Coalition in November 2012, is seen as a respected and unifying figure in Syria.
Another important figure within the movement is Tareq al-Fadhli, an Islamic tribal sheikh and head of a prominent southern family.
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Have you ever sat in a meeting where all parties sit around the table with a deer in the headlights look trying to figure out how to dance around an issue rather than address it head-on?
Bill Dodwell, head of tax policy at the accountants Deloitte, told the BBC that he suspected the figure was a "sensible number taking account of the scale of the business and their history of past losses".
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