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Though serious collectors are only interested in uncirculated currency—for the same reasons that baseball card or action-figure enthusiasts will pay a premium for pieces in mint condition—the less pristine bills are getting a second act in Zimbabwe as souvenirs for foreign visitors.
How to Turn 100 Trillion Dollars Into Five and Feel Good About It Patrick McGroarty 2011
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Or are you going to have to dump it faster than a 42-year-old man with an action-figure collection and his mommy on speed-dial?
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Or, more specifically, two fully poseable Cullens — one in standard action-figure form and the other of the deluxe, hand-painted figurine variety.
The Next Object Of Your ‘Twilight’ Obsession: Edward Cullen Dolls » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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The original report for the figures can be found here at action-figure. com.
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Or are you going to have to dump it faster than a 42-year-old man with an action-figure collection and his mommy on speed-dial?
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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And he has plenty of personality and a fabulous toy action-figure and comic-book collection via Matt Terl at the Redskins blog.
Should O.J. Atogwe, or any other Redskins player, wear No. 21? 2011
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It's the libido that's exploding on Syfy's provocative Lost Girl (10/9c), a saucy Canadian import that owes a big debt to Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the sexually charged misadventures of a soul-sucking succubus named Bo (Anna Silk, an action-figure version of Mary Louise Parker).
Monday TV in Review: Alcatraz, Lost Girl, Being Human and More 2012
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Y'all know any good action-figure makers down thera?
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The cult of secrecy, mythologized during the Cold War era in action-figure secret agents, has given way, in the post 9/11 world, to a murkier and far more dangerous condition that doesn't lend itself to Hollywood action films so much as to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Frederick Reuss: Secrecy and Censorship: Book Burning in the Era of E-Books Frederick Reuss 2010
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The cult of secrecy, mythologized during the Cold War era in action-figure secret agents, has given way, in the post 9/11 world, to a murkier and far more dangerous condition that doesn't lend itself to Hollywood action films so much as to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Frederick Reuss: Secrecy and Censorship: Book Burning in the Era of E-Books 2010
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