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fly apart to break apart, throwing pieces around. Don't run the engine too fast or it will fly apart! Mary's bicycle wheel flew apart during the race. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Room 5 features some of the Bolsena paintings, in which one can only marvel at the extraordinary dynamic which holds together what should fly apart, while Room 6 is Twombly's blackboard answer to Minimalism. Beginning seemingly at dawn and ending in total darkness, after a while shadowy objects begin to appear and then collectively proceed to fly apart or plummet to the ground--trees, cell phones, birds, human bodies, telephone poles--as if a tornado had whipped across the world destroying everything in its path. It takes only a few minutes, and prevents what could be a very scary incident should your old springs break and fly apart. |
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