Or look at Phoenix, lifting his head high and proud, as Brando used to do, with an added, cranky stiffness that comes from having, or being, a serious pain in the neck.

NEWYORKER: Sail Away

Cut to Lang Lang, in his red tuxedo, pounding away at the piano, head thrown back, lifting his right hand in a gesture of ecstasy, while the masses applaud.

NEWYORKER: The Olympian

Dilshan was also at his inventive best, and demonstrated the en vogue shovel shot, lifting the ball back over his own head and somehow avoiding injury.

BBC: Sri Lanka secure win over Windies

Over the past year she has gradually softened her opposition to lifting them, says the BBC's Jonathan Head.

BBC: Suu Kyi calls for further easing of Burma sanctions

In a video created by Boston Dynamics, BigDog is seen lifting a breeze block with an arm attached to where the head would go on its animal equivalent, and then throwing it backwards.

BBC: BigDog four-legged robot now sports throwing arm

Suppose that over the next 50 years China's real income per head rose by an average of 4-5% a year, lifting it to a still-modest half of that in America today.

ECONOMIST: The halo effect | The

When I bent my legs and peered in, I could see his back, and the back of his head, and, across the table from him, my smiling radiant wife lifting her wineglass as if in acknowledgment of something he had said.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield

Once Sylvie was in the bath, she lay with her eyes closed, head back against the edge of the tub, while Marjorie gently soaped her body, lifting her arms one by one, cleaning between her small breasts and her legs.

NEWYORKER: The Visitor