She was provided a folding table that served as a desk, where she could sit and read, write and eat.

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Just over a decade ago, Sara Blakely was shilling her invention, a modernized girdle, from a folding table in the foyer of Neiman Marcus.

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The stage that set designer Tom Pye has decorated includes a metal folding table you might find at a Target, a ladder, a few cane chairs, barbed wire, a gorgeous bush sculpted from metal, a birdcage and a stunning wooden bird pole, though the vulture that had been onstage before the curtain was nowhere to be found during one preview.

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There is a wooden display case, about the size of a folding bridge table, showing off a portable retrospective he created for the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1889.

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Baker brought in an army of election lawyers from Washington, who went to work in a large conference room nearby, sharing a giant table as a desk and sitting on folding chairs.

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