The most beautiful pieces however are the window pane jackets and the patch elbow double-breasted sport coat worn over cut-off shorts.

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Greenfield believes the novelty of 3-D has worn off and viewers are tired of paying more for movies that are inevitably darker.

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It said people were abandoning them because they could not afford to keep them, their status effect had worn off and over-breeding had lessened their financial value.

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The clothes themselves gave off a certain worn-in feel as though they were fabulous treasures found in the attic of a once very stylish aunt.

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The make-every-shooter-as-brown-as-possible trend has apparently worn off, and the shooters of this past year quite literally popped with color.

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But budget cuts or not, the streets have to be cleared, and replacing worn-out equipment can only be put off for so long.

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And so Jones, employing a new, high guard - a tacit admission his reflexes weren't what they had been - reeled off three straight wins, the last against a shop-worn Felix Trinidad in January.

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Most daunting of all was the waiting stove, with the numbers worn off its knobs and the dangerous-looking grates.

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Taylor also auctioned off the skimpy mesh dress worn by the Duchess of Cambridge -- then known as Kate Middleton -- during a fashion show at the University of St.

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He doubled back toward Cambridge on a roundabout and pulled into a lay-by off the highway, a place of oily, littered grass with a kiosk on worn bare ground which sold hot dogs and burgers to lorry drivers.

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