Ehlers argues that it is not only Alice but also Leonard who was able to
pass for something that the court decided that he or she was not.
In fact, the five-bedroom family home could
pass for something much younger if first glances are anything to go by.
Far removed from his natural habitat, the green-skinned, Hawaiian shirt-wearing reptile finds it virtually impossible to camouflage himself in his new all-brown environment, choosing instead to
pass for something he's not, a fearless gunfighter named Rango.
The image might
pass for something manufactured with a compass set in geometry class, but mathematical certainties are far away: The longer we stare at the work's pristine patterns, the more precarious our sense of balance becomes.
"We wanted to make sure it'd
pass for something you could buy in the supermarket," researcher Morris Benjaminson, Ph.D., told New Scientist magazine.
So in this instance, one Canadian location didn't have to
pass for something else--it could play itself.