While in grad school, I continued to work on all sides of the fashion industry, always feeling like an outsider doing inside observational work, and with a hyper-awareness of the power of aesthetic manipulation and body consciousness.

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That was hardly a recipe for the sort of confidence some Welsh fans and pundits were displaying ahead of the clash with Australia, a team honour-bound by national tradition to do all in their power to redeem themselves in the eyes of a hyper-critical public and media.

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They have faced the problem of making the same "hyper-redundant" mechanisms much smaller and without a loss of power or movement.

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