Sylvia Maier, a Brooklyn-based artist, painted seven of the portraits featuring Ms. Brown, using actual cocoa mixed with alkyd paint and wax.

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Actual reports were mixed and perplexing.

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But so far the actual results have been mixed, with the problems predictably centring on the music.

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On Consumerist.com, actual shoppers were decidedly more mixed.

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While the models were first cast and the paint was first mixed in New Jersey, the actual balloon was manufactured in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with the help of a 3-D scanning program and a special machine that seals urethane panels.

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For this story of semi-anonymous group heroism, he uses actual professionals (pilots, flight attendants, an air-traffic controller) mixed in with largely unknown actors, and avoids visual or verbal rhetoric.

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