Happily, conservationists were able to rush the Picasso into the ICU, removing the stenciled spray paint.

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"Irkutsk-Pekin" was stenciled on the side of our train in Cyrillic letters, but otherwise it was unromantic-looking.

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They transferred the original living-room ceiling cypress stenciled with Moorish stars to cover a loggia and decorated an exterior wall with a set of weathered brass gates.

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C. decorator Barbara Hawthorn transformed mauve-colored tiles around the indoor pool with glazed drywall stenciled to resemble sandstone and put twinkle lights and fish netting on the ceiling.

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Contrary to nearly everything we know about the way celebrity is supposed to work, Banksy's identity remains as mysterious as when he first began leaving stenciled rats on the walls of London's public spaces.

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Beyond protecting the 4.3-inch, 720p panel, this sheet of glass covers the 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera (top-left) and capacitive buttons along the bottom (back, Windows and search) which are both stenciled and backlit in white.

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And three magnificent ensembles, left of the door in the main gallery, boast velvet jackets that are so heavily stenciled with gold and silver it's as if a new medium had been forged: fabric from a fairy tale.

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Hebrew lettering was stenciled on the butcher shop window and engraved on the lintels of the small neighborhood synagogues, but nowhere else (other than at the cemetery) did one's eye chance to land on the alphabet of the prayer book rather than on the familiar letters of the native tongue employed all the time by practically everyone for every conceivable purpose, high or low.

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