In one pastel, Degas evoked the thrilling height of the suspended figure with sketchy indications of the building's iron framework in vivid blue, as in the painting, but he experimented briefly with the position of the feet, pushing the front leg and the pointed foot, in its decorative boot, forward to create an emphatic vertical gesture in the lower part of the image.

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But Big Blue is still reinventing its big iron.

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Measuring 8ft by 8ft and in need of some repair, the blue-painted wooden shed has a simple corrugated iron roof.

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Like many Moscow apartments, it did not look much from the outside - a heavy, grey-steel security door, a scruffy communal entrance hall, a grand old staircase with a cast-iron banister spoiled by multiple layers of shiny, off-blue institutional paint.

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Number 212, one of the most eye-catching houses in the neighbourhood, is a large blue residence, separated from the street by a heavy-set iron gate.

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Long, low and wide, with a hood that can be measured in furlongs, the M6 has foot-wide rear tires, heroic brakes (love the blue calipers) and a cruel, humorless, inscrutable face, like Iron Man with a kidney stone.

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Iron Man 3 is filled with unexpected and delightful twists, including one moment so out-of-the-blue it was practically ultraviolet.

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