Word: papier
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...Notably, two characters appeared intermittently in giant, papier-mâché eyeball costumes. The eyeballs here constituted a larger-than-life visual anomaly in a play where everything else seems comfortably life-sized...
...average age was 19. What that must have done to the brain of a young kid. And then going home--but not normally, like most kids. The government put them out on this war-bond drive. They came back to a million people at Times Square and climbing these papier-mâché mountains, all this Hollywood kind of stuff. In fact, we're talking about the propaganda machine. The propaganda machine is our subject matter...
...their faces. You could put anybody on those papier-mâché mountains and say, "These are the guys who raised the flag." Who was to know...
...course, avoiding the subject. A giant papier-mache statue of George W. Bush kissing Lieberman on the cheek-the Senator's famed Britney-Madonna moment, which transpired after Bush finished his 2005 State of the Union address-sat on the back of a nearby pickup truck, thoughtfully provided by a group called Connecticut Bloggers. There was no mention from Lieberman of the elephant in the truck, no explanation of his alliance with the President over the war in Iraq. Just an oblique plea that this should not be a one-issue campaign...
...optimistic businesses are about the future - last week reached its highest level since German reunification. The reason for all this good cheer? Columnists call it the Merkel Factor. It was even given solid form on floats at the annual Carnival parade in Cologne. Last year, a vast, papier-mâché Merkel bent over to kiss the bottom of a George W. Bush figure; this year she had undergone a makeover into a motherly barkeeper, huge breasts enveloping her coalition partner, apparently loving him - and Germany - to death. From figure of fun to Mother Germany, from electoral liability...