Gold looks down whimsically at 442 Green Street, where he grew up, only a corner kick from the Boleyn Ground.

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The staff in the Brasserie du Nord, across the Rue de Dunkerque, speak whimsically of the prospect of more English custom.

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What is more, most buyers of HP's machines are consumers, whose demands shift faster and more whimsically than those of corporate customers.

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Shoemaker Steven Madden, with the whimsically descriptive ticker SHOO, appears to be crafting the right side of a cup-shaped pattern it began in May.

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Asked for specific structures that have inspired him, Mr. Payne e-mails 13 photos of old parks, giant industrial pipes, public benches and the whimsically shaped "Seuss Landing" area within Universal's Islands of Adventure theme park.

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Should we instead, as Times commentator David Aaronovitch whimsically proposed recently, apply to become the 51st, 52nd, 53rd and 54th states of what might be known as the United States of America and the East Atlantic?

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"Seems as if the GOP is once again whimsically ignoring our great nation's laws to do whatever it wants to do, and shooting itself in the foot in the process, " band representative Ken Weinstein said in a statement.

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With a whimsically eclectic technique (including musical sequences and special effects), she sets in motion a flashy yet complex superstructure of personal life that rests on a solid, implicit base of quasi-divine technological power and sociopolitical openness and energy.

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The soon-to-be-launched New York Sun, named after a deceased publication famous for whimsically proving the existence of Father Christmas, will be a 12-30-page broadsheet a form of newspaper that, apart from the Times and a handful of other publications founded in the 1800s, has largely ceased to exist.

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