She held a thin stick in her hand and was drawing with it in the sand, bringing a flower to life petal by grainy petal.
On 19 September, the eve of the full moon, many people take to the streets or parks carrying lit paper lanterns hooked over a thin bamboo stick (or the modern plastic equivalent).
Much has already been made of the fact that Upton is a departure from the stick thin ice beauties that have lately dominated the catwalks.
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"The fashion industry's promotion of beauty as meaning stick thin is damaging to young grils' self-image and to their health, " said British Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell at the weekend, urging London Fashion Week to follow Madrid's example.
"I'd just pick up, " says my caddy-for-the-day, Jacob Richards, a stick-thin 16-year-old with designs on one day playing on the Tour.
Directed by newcomer Nima Nourizadeh from what must have been a stick-thin screenplay, "Project X" loses more than it gains from the "videography" gambit.
How can this be, when the advertising hoardings promote stick-thin Paris Hilton and when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a former Mr Universe, rails against junk food?
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The ads abjured the traditional, superficial kind of fashion-industry images of stick-thin models with perfect hair and perfect skin, instead celebrating women who were not aesthetically ideal.
When you - you're crack climbing a thin crack, you stick your toes into the crack and then kind of wrench down on to stand up, and it's painful.
The trend for older women to suffer from eating disorders and body image problems may be the result in part of an aging Twiggy generation, the 60s being among the first decades in recent history where being stick-thin was the ideal.
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Staple a wire lath to plywood, as you would for a stucco wall, apply thin-set mortar and stick the artificial stones into the mortar.
Inside the cover was a picture of a boy, thin and upright, thrusting a stick of flame into the face of an enormous square-headed cat.
Should Rambus make its patent claims stick, the cost of the commodity DRAM business, which already operates with razor-thin profit margins, will be greater.
The Atrix HD is packed with more radios than you can throw a stick at -- to be fair, we're not sure why you would want to lob thin wooden objects at a set of antenna anyway.
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