• Of the average-sized and thin white women polled, 41% reported high self-esteem, but among black women considered overweight or obese by government standards, 66% reported high self-esteem.

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  • Many of the shabiha have shaved heads, thin beards and white trainers.

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  • Her features are sort of see-through, her skin is really pale, and she has thin white-blond hair this is why I say she should be a star, because the camera loves all that, close up.

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  • But Day is also an excellent reminder that Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke, and the lunatic who sang Christmas songs with Bing Crosby have all been coexisting in the same brain for decades.

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  • Sotheby's said the bowl is a "remarkable and exceptionally beautiful example of Song pottery, celebrated for its thin potting, fine near-white body and ivory coloured glaze".

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  • Under cover of darkness, and dressed in a thin grey hooded top, jeans and a pair of white trainers, he clambered into a tiny space inside the wheel housing of a passenger jet bound for London.

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  • He was wearing a white shirt with blue thin stripes, jeans, and brown leather lace-up boots.

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  • Beneath her no-fuss cropped red haircut and chic white blazer, her mouth hardens into a thin, straight line.

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  • The suspect is described as a white man, 17 to 24 years old, 5ft 7in and of very thin build.

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  • Swann's 10-over spell was magnificent, and he extracted notable turn as well as deceptive loop and bounce to account for Cameron White, who was bowled off a thin inside edge.

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  • That was the last he had seen of Golz with his strange white face that never tanned, his hawk eyes, the big nose and thin lips and the shaven head crossed with wrinkles and with scars.

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  • Ms. Broackes's own Bowie highlights include a 1974 Terry O'Neill photograph of David Bowie with Beat writer William S. Burroughs (hand-colored by Bowie), the Alexander McQueen jacket from his 1997 "Earthling" album cover and the mannered starkness of Mr. Bowie's Thin White Duke garb from 1976.

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  • Thin, white threads are obtained from the core of fresh aloe leaves and woven into a net or other pattern on a cardboard background.

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  • The suspect is described as white, about 20 years old, 6ft tall, thin, with dark wavy hair and thick bushy eyebrows.

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  • Keith trotted at her side, a small, thin lad, in his white leather zip-up jacket, his jeans and black plastic shoes.

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  • He took the visual elements of that character and turned it into his final all-encompassing persona, that of The Thin White Duke.

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  • Throughout the 1970s he became famous for adopting a number of different characters and personae, from glam-rock king Ziggy to the so-called Thin White Duke.

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  • Under the studio lights, he can seem with his spectral white hair, pallid skin, cool eyes, and expansive forehead like a rail-thin being who has rocketed to Earth to deliver humanity some hidden truth.

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  • But if you look behind me David, there's the kind of thin white line of sandbanks, 900 people, 300 soldiers, the ordinary citizens and emergency services, they're the ones that saved York, who built those kind of extra additions to the flood defences and saved us from, you know increasing waters of 15 to 20 feet.

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  • Dressed in a thin putty-colored sweater, jeans and trendy black slip-on sneakers with white bottoms, Mr. Robinson had just returned from the Venetian Las Vegas, where he is presenting Human Nature, an Australian vocal group that performs Motown hits.

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