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With the transformative instincts of a Circe or an oyster, she has turned its crawling creatures and barnacle-encrusted cast-offs into sculptures doused in precious metal.
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This is the kind of daft thing artists do: adapting the cast-offs of consumer culture through a process of determined and obsessive repetition to an agenda that is all the more delightful for being so utterly futile.
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Anybody remember a book called Half Magic by Edgar Eager or the series of books on the Borrowers, little people who lived between the floor boards and used our cast-offs for their domestic arrangements?
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This Summer brings us a bit healthier slate, even if it does include some regular season cast-offs.
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Women who wear cast-offs to the beach, whether they be old T-shirts, faded sundresses or, in my case, your son's ripped surfing shorts, tend to look, how can I put this…more than a little jaded.
Covering a Multitude of Beach Sins Tina Gaudoin 2011
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We may do it for ourselves and for our own satisfaction, but the fact is it helps others, too--whether it's the enjoyment they, too, feel in our clean space or the fact that our cast-offs are others' treasures.
Maria Rodale: Cleaning Is Praying. Praying Is Cleaning! Maria Rodale 2011
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Owner Neila Jaziri is known for housing a well-edited collection, including cast-offs from Parisian clotheshorses like Catherine Deneuve.
Unearthing Treasures in Paris Rachel Dodes 2011
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Owner Neila Jaziri is known for housing a well-edited collection, including cast-offs from Parisian clotheshorses like Catherine Deneuve .
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We may do it for ourselves and for our own satisfaction, but the fact is it helps others, too--whether it's the enjoyment they, too, feel in our clean space or the fact that our cast-offs are others' treasures.
Maria Rodale: Cleaning Is Praying. Praying Is Cleaning! Maria Rodale 2011
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This Summer brings us a bit healthier slate, even if it does include some regular season cast-offs.
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