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Examples
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Some of my favorite works in the show exploit the finicky, soap-bubble aspects of a delicate medium.
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Either I make stuff like this and am REALLY DISAPPOINTED when I wake up, or I have dreams where I make impossible things, like soap-bubble ballgowns.
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The pretty wax doll bade good-bye to the Princess Ozma and the others and stood on the platform while the Wizard blew a big soap-bubble around her.
Love Letters 2010
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Either I make stuff like this and am REALLY DISAPPOINTED when I wake up, or I have dreams where I make impossible things, like soap-bubble ballgowns.
June 2010 2010
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Shortly after my family moved house from one my parents hated to one they loved, I was lying on the landing reading when a soap-bubble drifted up over the banister and popped on my book.
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Andrew O'Hehir's take on such seriousness in Salon: "If only this were a cheeseball entertainment out of 1963, where the opening-night audience might be showered with Styrofoam temple blocks and soap-bubble lava, while actors in fearsome Maya regalia bearing plastic severed heads on spears roamed the aisles."
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Yep, think up a dress, any dress, even an impossible dress made of cotton candy with soap-bubble trim, or barbed wire and Christmas tinsel, and email Isaac with it; Isaac will then select his favorites and sketch them.
Isaac Mizrahi Wants to Sketch Your Dream Dress! - A Dress A Day 2007
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Yep, think up a dress, any dress, even an impossible dress made of cotton candy with soap-bubble trim, or barbed wire and Christmas tinsel, and email Isaac with it; Isaac will then select his favorites and sketch them.
February 2007 2007
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Your soap-bubble comfort zone is going to have some real problems very soon.
pinter again 2005
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And will my house be indeed the house of God, the foundations of which are loyalty, and its bulwarks righteousness, and not the house of fame, whose walls are of the soap-bubble, and its floor a sea of glass mingled with fire?
Westward Ho! 2007
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