See, I think what we're seeing is because - you know, we have the war in Iraq, which has now lasted longer than World War II - because of hurricane Katrina, it's becoming harder and harder for professional athletes to live in figurative and literal gated communities.

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The question at hand is: Will the Housewife keep the literal and figurative house?

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And I know 14-year-old boys, literal and figurative, are easily amused.

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But the Missonis had their revenge, creating a literal and figurative splash in Milan the next year when a poolside show ended with everyone in the water.

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Despite some of the excitement that came with a star player like Chris Paul, the New Orleans Hornets have always played in both the literal and figurative shadow of the Saints.

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With the country exhibiting positive demographics, strong consumer demand and an open, competitive economy, Turkey is at a figurative, as well as literal, crossroad between Europe and Asia.

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The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.7 It is work to deal with the dead as well, to remove them in the literal sense of disposing of their bodies, and it is also work to remove them in a more figurative sense.

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