Other installations include one for which "Star Wars" fans have been encouraged to take one of the 480 scenes from "Empire Strikes Back Uncut" and reimagine it, the results having been stitched together into what creators Casey Pugh and Aaron Meyers describe as a "massive quilt" playing on a loop.

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The quilt was first displayed on the National mall in 1987.

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The heat from the laptop, resting on top of a quilt, warmed the bed.

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Unable to impose their policy agenda at the federal level, these activists are now trying to fashion a crazy quilt of state and even local rules on everything from privacy to cybersecurity.

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One Saturday I sat alone on the floor in our tiny apartment, piecing a quilt, when the CD changer switched to a Mos Def album that Adam had been listening to a few days before.

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The college health system is a crazy quilt of private coverage and student plans, with few rules governing how schools charge for coverage or on-campus services.

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First started in 1987, the quilt now contains the names of more than 94, 000 of individuals who have died of AIDS on more than 47, 000 panels.

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