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  • But really it's a remarkable feat of compression given that it ought to be called "Things That Have Grabbed the Attention of Co-Directors Helen Lannaghan and Joseph Seelig That Others Might Label Variously Dance, Performance Art, Circus and Puppetry, Not Always From Abroad, Sometimes With Talking".

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Dominic Cavendish 2012

  • But really it's a remarkable feat of compression given that it ought to be called "Things That Have Grabbed the Attention of Co-Directors Helen Lannaghan and Joseph Seelig That Others Might Label Variously Dance, Performance Art, Circus and Puppetry, Not Always From Abroad, Sometimes With Talking".

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012

  • Variously promising to utilize the National Guard, electric fences, predator drones and I think somebody mentioned alligator pits.

    Will Durst: Wearing My Debate Fatigues Will Durst 2011

  • Variously, then, as a term of affection, an index of verbal trust, and with shades of admiration - generally for ways of being which successfully navigate the very boundary of the pale in human interactions - as well as disdain, for failure in similar.

    On Profanity: 3 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Variously known as feed-in tariffs, feed law, and CLEAN contracts, it involves a miniscule increase on utility rates to provide guaranteed long-term payments to small producers of renewable energy so that their projects get paid off with a small profit hence the "tariff" for certain energies fed in.

    Anne Butterfield: Rocky Road for Clean Energy, Views Still Great Anne Butterfield 2011

  • Variously promising to utilize the National Guard, electric fences, predator drones and I think somebody mentioned alligator pits.

    Will Durst: Wearing My Debate Fatigues Will Durst 2011

  • Variously entitled "The Jewboy", then "Whacking Off", then "A Jewish Patient Begins his Analysis" before finally emerging as Portnoy's Complaint, the novel that catapulted him into a world of banal public curiosity has a lot to answer for.

    Philip Roth: Still fascinated by himself | Observer profile 2011

  • Variously he claimed to have been a CPT and 1LT depending on which time you talked to him.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Variously described as "resembling his waxwork" or "caught in a wind tunnel", Warne says he owes it all to "new Estée Lauder moisturisers", a company his girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley, has a long-standing deal to endorse.

    The Nursery End 2011

  • Variously extended and held as unfurled wings, or alert antennae, or as the sinews of some Atlas holding up the world itself, they prove perfect counterpoints to the athletic and articulate inventiveness of Mr. Taylor's rich leg- and footwork.

    First Signs of Battle at Alvin Ailey Robert Greskovic 2011

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