He walked over to a table, reached under a cloth, and took out an enormous plastic bag containing human fat, orange and glutinous, that he had obtained from a liposuction patient.

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Sitting by some potted plants, at a table laid with a starched white cloth, ex-General Nic van Rensburg and ex-Colonel Gideon Nieuwoudt said that they shot them dead after abducting them outside a hotel.

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She likes throwing a burlap cloth over a table, and adding a self-lit mirror paired with antique crystal lamps and a small-scale, American Federal chair.

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Aboard the boat was a cloth-covered picnic table set with handmade clay dishes and mugs, holding corn chips and homemade guacamole, a salad prepared with freshly picked chinampa produce, such as white onion and tomatoes, and served with two types of ranchero cheese, as well as plates of Oaxaca-style tamales filled with mushroom and guajillo chilli sauce.

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There are inlaid camel-head benches and painted peacock-and-lion chairs from Rajasthan, a table made from a traditional Indian four-poster bed decorated with embroidered cloth of gold, Hindu devotional paintings, showcases housing exquisite jewellery and carved peasant objects.

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For cash a good-size, good-quality single table-cloth is priced at 40 euros.

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The white of his expansive tabletops in paintings like "The Table" and "The White Table Cloth" resembles an emission of light rather than a pigment, so the haphazardly strewn plates and baskets appear to be floating or suspended in space.

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The furniture is minimal: There is a long dining table painted chartreuse and small, bright-blue Chinese peasant cloth pillows sit on two white couches.

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