But work your way up the pricing scale — and onto the websites of artists and individuals who make brooms by hand — and you'll find gangly brooms made from found wood, pleasingly curved hand brooms made from ash and horsehair, thick palm brooms imported from Japan, and classic Shaker brooms with gleaming, octagonal walnut handles.
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In addition to full-size brooms, Berea's students make a range of items including fireplace brooms, cobwebbers (for those high and hard to reach corners) and whisk brooms (for tight spots, to brush off upholstery or countertops, or to delint clothing).
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It's one of the reasons that rubber brooms, rather than the more common rush-style brooms, are the best choice for sweeping up human or animal hair.
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Beyond their symbolism, brooms are, of course, used for sweeping.
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He suggested that the state provide skaters with some brooms.
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A pair of dishwashers swept past her with their push brooms.
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But Standefer is plainly uninterested in selling brooms as art objects.
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Wands and brooms (and flying cars) are tools that channel magic.
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Today, it is still used in manufactured brooms around the world.
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Here, a handful of makers around the country currently creating brooms.
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The soldiers wore T-shirts and basketball jerseys, and carried brooms.
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If you can't really be bothered anyways, brooms are cheap as hell.
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She offers add-ons for her brooms, like fabric skirts and sheaths.
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Street vendors are everywhere in Hanoi, selling everything from bananas to brooms.
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Just because Swiffers are relevant doesn't mean brooms have to become obsolete.
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She and Zimmerman fetched two brooms and started sweeping down the walls.
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Appropriately, participants sported black hats and floor-length dresses and carried brooms.
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A woman sells the brooms, rakes and dusters arranged on her head.
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One boy said that his neighbors had shared their brooms and machetes.
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The Guatemalan army shared images of officers clearing the runway with push brooms.
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His first effort was on behalf of a fictional product, Modern Plastic Brooms.
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We were delighted: old women ululated whilst sweeping the ground with Setswana brooms.
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Where Ice, Granite and Brooms Meet Read: Russia Is Insulted at Winter Games.
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For decades, cleanup crews took shovels and brooms to the tracks by hand.
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Not just a bunch of Harry Potter obsessives pretending to fly around on brooms.
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Officers were clearing the runway with brooms in images shared by the Guatemalan army.
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First, though, without any answers, they grabbed brooms and mops, chain saws and crowbars.
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A group of workers, rolling buckets and holding mops and brooms, approach one plane.
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Consider how often you think about brooms (probably never), subtract a bit, and that is how often I had thought about brooms before a crisp week in February last year that turned out to be one of the most satisfying of my life.
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Bushels of whisk brooms, made of straw and horsehair and boar hair, lie on shelves.
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Unlike brooms and vacuums, steam cleaners use steam to dry, clean, and disinfect home surfaces.
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The income comes on top of the 60,000 shillings ($16) her husband makes selling brooms.
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Cats, brooms and pointed hats would be as out of fashion nowadays as whalebone corsets.
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MORE (D) on Wednesday posted a video of themselves curling in the hallway using brooms.
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"Because there are brooms for $12 now that you can get on Amazon, people think it's somehow inappropriate to buy something more expensive," says Robin Standefer, co-owner of the Roman and Williams Guild in New York, which sells handmade brooms from Japan and Sweden.
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The people who make and sell these kinds of brooms say they want to see them in use, and hope that the brooms' craftsmanship and elevated design will inspire owners to leave them out as decoration when they're not being used to sweep the floor.
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"When you walk into a house, there are no brooms or mops or vacuums," he said.
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No brooms were used, and the driver was allowed to steer after his team let go.
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The grounds crew, armed with wide brooms, swept the water away from the field of play.
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"Useful Objects" included hairbrushes and highball glasses, brooms and breadbaskets, side tables, sofas, ashtrays and lamps.
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Though Rouse uses traditional American broom-making materials and techniques, she sees her brooms as functional sculptures.
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Quinn sells a smaller $21 version of her brooms, which cost $2200 for a full-size version.
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Will was in L.A. at the first game, and he was saying people showed up with brooms.
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If Barbie had dared to saunter into that store, she would have been swatted out with brooms.
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One person gathered up shovels, brooms, axes ("she wants the right tools to do a good job").
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He tries splitting it in two with an ax, but then there are two brooms, then four.
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The Massachusetts-based furniture makers Alyssa Pitman, 37, and Winston Daddario, 28, also make a few small-scale brooms at Spire Woodshop, inspired by the weaving techniques of Asian countries and the Shaker flat brooms first made in New England, which are cut from wood they mill themselves.
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"The roads were blocked off (by) furniture, brooms, sticks and stones," police captain Mali Govender said in statement.
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When younger people buy her brooms, it's usually because they have a keen interest in design or art.
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People are partaking in the internet's newest viral challenge: The Broom Challenge, in which they balance brooms upright.
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Meanwhile swords and daggers are replaced with brooms and buckets, which act as extensions of the dancers' bodies.
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Kwame: I know this movie takes place in an alternate universe where people can ride brooms and dragons.
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And so, a week after Labor Day, teams of city sanitation workers showed up, carrying brooms and shovels.
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The trio behind Haydenville Broomworks, lead by Janelle Higdon, 36, create some of the finest looking brooms around.
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They bought brooms from Italy, votive candles and table linens from India and Tupperware-like containers from Argentina.
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They were everywhere on Friday in their first-responder-style yellow vests, pushing brooms and checking fire trucks.
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Several workers, some with shovels, others brooms, began scooping and sweeping soda bottles and newspapers off the tracks.
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As legend had it, witches used magic spells to conjure the brooms to fly across the night sky.
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They are learning curling, the Canadian sport of ice-bowling with brooms, a combination of shuffleboard and housekeeping.
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That would be why I'm making all these hand brooms, so there's a lower-priced product to prove demand.
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Brooms and owls zip overhead, potion ingredients clutter the ground around you, and locations to visit sprinkle every block.
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We took brooms, we took dustpans, we took trash bags, and we helped clean up the QuikTrip parking lot.
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UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: That's why they be taking, a cop and their brooms, they be taking them off the walls.
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Your friends are likely posting videos and pictures showing how they can make brooms stand up all by themselves.
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They also love Christmas, so on Christmas Eve, people hide their brooms so witches and the like won't hang around.
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Players sweep the brooms on the ice to either increase the distance traveled by the rock or redirect its path.
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Wirecutter's pick is the O-Cedar Dual-Action Microfiber Flip Mop, from its guide to brooms, dustpans, and dust mops.
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But the transformation of brooms from round to flat — their Copernican Revolution — was the brainchild of the efficiency-seeking Shakers.
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And each of his brooms comes with a little love note "to counteract some of the hatred in the world."
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At the same time, as the brooms scratched the pavement and people wrung out wet clothes, there was little complaining.
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Many more followed, for Tide, Ivory Snow and O-Cedar mops and brooms, for Thomas's English Muffins and American Express.
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This area for hanging up witches' and wizards' brooms is just one example of the Charmed Playhouses team's incredible creativity.
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The sport pits two teams against each other, as each tries to push a rock on ice, guided by brooms.
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It's worth asking these questions because, anecdotally, I've noticed that friends and acquaintances have reactions to the idea of fancy brooms.
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OfferUp OfferUp OfferUp Forget clothing, if you are looking to rid yourself of brooms and baseball bats, OfferUp is for you.
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Take heed from the golem, Dr. Frankenstein's monster, Mickey Mouse's enchanted brooms, Dolores in "Westworld"—or, indeed, from try-hard Jibo.
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Cover: A street vendor walks the streets selling brooms under the sun looking in old Havana, Cuba, Thursday, June 20, 2019.
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Some "had to tie brooms to their waists to sweep away their polluted footprints," wrote the novelist and journalist Arundhati Roy.
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People still make things in the city — from custom jewelry and hand-hammered silver to myriad types of baskets and brooms.
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Onlookers were caught by surprise on Saturday when hundreds of "witches" breezed past them on brooms paddleboards, according to Oregon Live.
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I remember a lot of pixelated, rotating witches' brooms ... My favorite thing about the books is how they make me feel.
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Canada: Curling A long, long time in medieval Scotland, a bunch of people with brooms and some stones came up with curling.
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Her feeling is that these unbelievably well-made brooms can be used for decades, saving the shopper money in the long run.
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Despite features this year in T magazine and on the Strategist, New York magazine's shopping site, artisanal brooms aren't quite there yet.
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In the spring of 2017, Erin Rouse quit her job at the lighting design firm Lindsey Adelman to make brooms full time.
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Traditional brooms use foam or hair, which surround a given pebble and generate extra friction, making the sweepers work that much harder.
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While other nations swear by brooms, mops, and sponges, it seems our society is having a tough time kicking a bad habit.
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Silva said she has bought collapsible brooms and buckets so that these products can take up less space in her tiny house.
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The neighbors come out to see the source of the cacophony, then disappear and return with bamboo sticks, with brooms and blankets.
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For example: hardware light enough to embed in brooms used in competition so that real-time statistics can be broadcast on television.
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Some even "had to tie brooms to their waists to sweep away their polluted footprints," writes the novelist and journalist Arundhati Roy.
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Residents should be sure to clean their apartments with wet mops or cloths, not brooms, which can simply stir up the dust.
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I&aposve also been testing floor cleaners, vacuums, brooms, and mops for many years as a home economist for companies and publications.
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From mops and brooms to shopping carts and plastic bags, STOMP performers use everything they see in sight to create rhythm and sound.
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Up the river from the quarry, on another day of prospecting for dinosaurs, less seasoned volunteers pushed brooms across the dry limestone riverbed.
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The space, which is reminiscent of Harry Potter's cupboard/bedroom under the stairs at the Dursley home, wasn't redesigned with brooms in mind.
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Sifting through the trash, he found artifacts of the recent past: CDs, brooms, mirrors, statues of black angels, and an Aboriginal Djembe drum.
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Undeterred and unwilling to cede a good press opportunity, the BJP members invited photographers to capture them holding brooms on the clean street.
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Check out the pounded-copper earrings (88 lei), the array of copper bowls (350-193 lei), and leather-accented whisk brooms (22 lei).
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Onmier Mop & Broom Holder, $11.59, available at Amazon Don't let bulky cleaning tools like mops and brooms make a mess in your space.
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Armed with shovels, brooms made from small branches, and hockey sticks, they cleared the surface of the New Rink after an overnight snowstorm.
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Workers came in with brooms to clear the bugs, and after 45 minutes, the auction resumed, and Mr. Singer's was the winning bid.
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They use small brooms to make their art, which often features familiar faces like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, according to the book.
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Undergrad laborers armed with shovels and brooms were tasked with wading into the water to clean up the debris, over and over again.
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Using dry twigs as brooms, they are sweeping the green-layered droppings into a fifth pile when they're interrupted by a loud hooting.
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Rouse and Quinn don't have the cost-saving benefit of large-scale production, and they are both conscious of the prices of their brooms.
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In the meantime, people like Dr. Gupta are left to shoulder their brooms, and to try new foods and new strategies, likely in vain.
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The frenzied sweeping with the little brooms helps reduce friction even further, slightly heating that segment of the ice very briefly before it refreezes.
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Dressed in the proper garb and holding brooms, a group of daring Muggles took to the skies for a game of mid-air Quidditch.
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Using street sweepers, backpack blowers, and push brooms, they will remove the 57 tons of material that's left behind, none of which is recycled.
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Moments before, he and his teammates had done what jubilant curlers do: They raised their brooms aloft in screaming excitement over an improbable victory.
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Curling is a game played on a sheet of ice in which the athletes use brooms to guide polished granite rocks toward a target.
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But curling, the sport that involves using brooms to direct a heavy granite rock down a sheet of ice, has joined the CrossFit age.
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Why it matters: The soldiers, jogging in formation, carrying brooms and singing in cadence, were a rare sight on the streets of the city.
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Crews were using more than 20 pieces of equipment, including snowplows, brooms and sand trucks, to clear and keep the runways open on Tuesday.
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Hide yo brooms, hide yo wife In Norway, they have a pretty solid idea of what witches and evil spirits do and do not like.
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Unlike in his cramped urban workspaces, in Majorca, he was able to lay massive canvases flat on the floor, splatter paint on them with brooms.
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She comes to this "market" every year to sell the gifts of nature: fish, berries, meat, and even birch and pine brooms for banya (sauna).
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She used her hands, brushes, parts of cardboard boxes and brooms to arrange the vivid images that distinguished her work for more than 19953 years.
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Get the Compact Storage System for $83 See Details This hook rack isn't for coats, but it can be used for your brooms and mops.
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The museum kicked off last month with a focus on pottery -- such as tea, or chai, cups and saucers, terracotta water filters, brooms and fans.
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According to some players, even with legal brooms, sweepers are able to control the rocks as effectively as the with the banned directional fabric brushes.
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Upon walking in, we saw trash bins and brooms, just to name a couple of the mounds of different products lining the shelves and aisles.
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I NEVER IMAGINED a scenario where I'd be sitting in an Appalachian folk school with a half a dozen strangers handcrafting brooms for a week.
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I wouldn't be surprised if this was legitimately included in Axl Rose's pre-show demands, along with a parakeet, twelve golden brooms, and a raincoat.
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It's August, so get out your very pointy sun hats and garden brooms and try matching these five quotes with the presidents who uttered them.
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For years, the Brooms kept determinedly and nostalgically mowing its empty lot; the author has rescued souvenirs there as poignant as a bent silver spoon.
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A glimpse inside its front windows reveals time cards still hanging on a wall and brooms sitting on the floor amid a smattering of office furniture.
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These wizards with brooms and sliding granite rocks have spent nearly a year making public appearances, and letting insistent fans touch, kiss and wear their medals.
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The short version of the story is that "broomrape" is the partially translated 16th-century name of a genus of plants, Genista: European plants called brooms.
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They paused, stood up straight, laid their shovels and brooms down and walked to the edge of the tracks, where they flattened their bodies and waited.
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Abe (David Harewood) works as a janitor, pushing brooms and cleaning up other people's waste; he spends much of the rest of his time in church.
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This vise was a game changer when the Shakers developed it in the late 18th century, and resulted in the style of brooms most Americans know today.
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In the latest viral challenge to overtake Twitter, people are balancing brooms upright in order to demonstrate a supposed unique gravitational pull taking place on February 10.
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Using mops, brooms and a series of blockades, the girls were able to coax the intruder out of the bathroom, and sent it flying down the stairs.
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STANDING in the vestry among the brooms and flower jugs—any vestry in the quietly attenuating Church of England—Roly Bain would put on his priestly vestments.
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Looking back on the sometimes "difficult" six-month shoot (involving animals, prosthetics, lots of child actors and flying on brooms), Najimy mostly remembers being starstruck by Midler.
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Though nearly all brooms today are unremarkable objects mass-produced in Mexico, there are a small number of people in North America devoted to hand-crafting them.
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And some of the younger Democrats who are mentioned most often as possible successors — like 56-year-old Representative Joe Crowley of Queens — aren't exactly new brooms.
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Tiktokers, it would seem, are slightly less enthused about playing with brooms, but still jumped on the bandwagon with all the jokes and irony they could muster.
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Victims who worked for other members of the Connors family spoke about being hit with brooms or hosed with cold water naked in the middle of winter.
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Soon enough, you'll have a handful of objects like lassos, brooms, and gold coins, along with new characters like an angry old lady and a gun-wielding brute.
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At $80 for a hand broom and $200 for a full-size version, which can reach $350 with a pleated skirt and handle cover, Rouse's brooms aren't cheap.
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Easily dismissed as kitschy, the installation of stools, dustpans, brooms, levels, drills, crates, hammers, and drop cloths raises poignant questions about everyday tools recontextualized into works of art.
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Later he adopted tinted gels and polymers, which he applied with squeegees and, in the "brush and cut" series he began in the late 1980s, commercial floor brooms.
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Mr. Clark sometimes stains but mostly he wields wide brushes and even brooms, magnifying impasto and brushwork in piled-up strokes that seem to squirm on the surface.
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That would likely play out like the brooms in the Sorcerer's Apprentice, where each piece of the company animates and grows into its own threat to privacy and democracy.
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Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors brought out the brooms Friday night to complete the sweep of LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, winning the 2122 NBA Finals.
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They need crowbars and push brooms, plus hammers to yank every tiny nail from the studs, snow shovels to scoop up the detritus and wheelbarrows to cart it away.
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Instead the masses looked confused, as though he was rapping about new brooms he picked up at Bed, Bath, and Beyond, which would've inevitably been more relatable to most.
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GRUESOME BREAK FROM ROUTINE During a visit to the supply closet, the guys break the handles off brooms, pull the blade off a paper cutter and get to work.
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By tapping the 2D artwork, you move books and furniture or collect stools and brooms from the living room, gradually adjusting accumulating the right tools to find the hidden treasure.
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"I'd see all these businesses that used to produce normal products, even brooms, that everybody uses and purchases today, but are not produced here — they are produced overseas," he said.
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At the broom workshop at Berea College in Kentucky's Appalachian foothills, some students make brooms — in return for free tuition — that are sold in the school's shop or online store.
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"You just turned around and started pushing me like crazy," Mr. Zepeda, a father of four who sells brooms from a pushcart, says on a video that captured the aftermath.
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In a warehouse staffed by people, like items are stored near one another—mops next to brooms next to dustpans—so their location is easy for stock clerks to remember.
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Rouse recently knocked hers down from $2300 to $13 at the maximum, and started making the less expensive hand brooms because she wanted to offer something that her friends could buy.
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The houses along the road were like that too: jammed together, the balconies cramped with cycles, boxes, brooms, pots, clotheslines, buckets, the city minutely recreating itself down to the smallest cell.
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At one point, a large set-piece stage decoration crashes to the ground, scattering broken bulbs across the floor (cue immediate appearance of vacuums, brooms and more than one sweaty brow).
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Plus, I found the brooms beautiful — the simplicity of their form (stick and grass bound together for a purpose) was alluring in a way that a decorative object could never be.
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While most of us rarely give our brooms a second thought, there are about a hundred people in America devoted to handcrafting them using techniques last improved upon two centuries ago.
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Brooms, rubber gloves and sponges swept the workroom and the runway in a season premiere dedicated to celebrating the show's decaversary by unearthing and dusting off the gritty roots of drag.
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Its holdings include images of cats and brooms and caldrons, plants used in folk remedies, implements for divination, witches' garments and tools, and items related to Cornish lore and sea witchcraft.
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The visiting St. Louis Cardinals aim to bring out the brooms for the second straight series against the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday afternoon when the clubs reconvene at Citizens Bank Park.
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Quidditch might be impossible to play in real life (stupid non-flying brooms) — but it works really well in Halo 5: Guardians, thanks to the awesome power of the Gravity Hammer.
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To convince shoppers of the same, she priced the Guild's brooms lower than she usually would, slimming their margins in favor of making them more accessible to people used to Amazon's bargains.
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The tribe, then with 500 to 600 members, moved with the seasons across the Housatonic Valley, setting up villages and smaller camps where they hunted, fished and made brooms and tin crafts.
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If a tenant has not stopped in to request that he fix a shower head or install a socket, he retrieves his instrument and practices, surrounded by wiring, cords, brooms and buckets.
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Already in the late 18th century, members of the Shaker religious sect used special vises to craft the forerunners of our current flat straight-edged brooms — in the interest of godly cleanliness.
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Humberto Díaz, currently an artist-in-residence at the Bronx Museum, extends the active life of fallen tree branches he scavenges from the city's parks by attaching industrial brooms to their tips.
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The houses along the road were like that too: jammed together, the balconies cramped with cycles, boxes, brooms, pots, clotheslines, buckets, the city minutely re-creating itself down to the smallest cell.
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Items on display - arranged on and around a colorful handcart - include clay tea cups and saucers, terracotta water filters, reed brooms, painted wooden objects and textiles, all made with local or recycled materials.
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Total employed in the US: 7,010What they do, according to O*NET: Janitors and cleaners keep buildings clean and orderly using equipment ranging from brooms and mops to carpet cleaners and floor waxers.
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Total employed in the US: 11,140What they do, according to O*NET: Janitors and cleaners keep buildings clean and orderly using equipment ranging from brooms and mops to carpet cleaners and floor waxers.
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Yes, the winter sport that involves ice, round rocks and a good deal of sweeping has a passionate following among those who have come out of the closet, taking their brooms with them.
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The makers run the gamut from Americana buffs to hippie holdouts, and the brooms are mostly minimalist Shaker or backwoods Appalachian in style (wonkily bent, bark-clad branches as handles and decorative braiding).
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Michigan's Female Hockey Players Support Their Team With Cash and Brooms At a university that spends $160 million on athletics annually, women must pay to play, sometimes sweeping the arena to do so.
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While traditional brooms and Swiffers are fine for small day-to-day cleaning necessities as they come up, I've found they just don't cut it for the larger cleaning tasks required by my apartment.
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The thing was, after decades of layoffs and strikes, unrelenting economic pressure and a succession of political leaders who threw chairs and swung brooms at them — figuratively and sometimes literally — they were still there.
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Under the scrutiny of scientists from the National Research Council of Canada, Olympic medalists and world champions tested 50 brooms from different manufacturers along with a variety of sweeping styles as we journalists looked on.
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While these brooms don't possess the delicacy of their Japanese counterparts, crafted with a sense of the poetry found in humility and imperfection, they do reflect American culture in the upright pragmatism of their aesthetic.
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Though they had never thought about brooms before, they bought the business from a Middlebury, Vermont, tree farmer and maple syrup producer who wanted to give up his 30-year side business in broom-making.
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The 1995 semi-final between hosts South Africa and France was delayed by an hour due to a waterlogged pitch, but famously went ahead after a team of cleaning ladies took to it with brooms.
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At some point, Sharif slowed down on scavenging and started buying, picking up cheap, disposable objects, the equivalent of Duchampian ready-mades, in bulk: plastic toys, made-in-China buckets, slippers, brooms, rugs, flip flops.
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And because cleaning is not a high-paying endeavor — whether it's done for free by the person residing in that home or outsourced to a professional — price point is where the conversation around brooms gets tricky.
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The NASA Twitter account posted a video of astronaut Drew Alvin and scientist Sarah Noble demonstrating the challenge — on February 11, after the day of the supposed special gravitational pull allowing for brooms to balance upright.
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The Tigers also took out the brooms in their first set of meetings from April 1193-May 1 in Minnesota as Victor Martinez went 9-for-13 with a homer, three RBIs and six runs scored.
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Stephen Piscotty, who launched a grand slam to help St. Louis bring out the brooms in a 9-8 win over Milwaukee on Sunday, belted a three-run homer in Thursday's 5-1 triumph over Pittsburgh.
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The structure is made of locally salvaged materials — previous iterations have included brooms, billiard cues and hockey sticks — and inspired by Mexico's pre-Columbian cultures, specifically the traditional music and dances of the indigenous Huasteca people.
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Right now, people are willing to shell out for ceramics classes (a balm for those who spend too much time on their phones and computers) and handmade ceramics, many of which cost much more than those brooms.
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A new exhibition, Harry Potter: A History of Magic, is providing a different way for Harry Potter fans to connect with the Wizarding World — and it features real witches' brooms and handwritten drafts by author J.K. Rowling!
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CRATES OF BOMBS Chinese soldiers dressed in shorts and T-shirts, some carrying red plastic buckets or brooms, emerged from their barracks on Saturday in a rare public appearance to help residents clear debris blocking key roads.
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There is no room for error in mixed doubles, which is a more compact version of curling, the sport that involves using brooms to direct a heavy granite rock down a sheet of ice toward a target.
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The Yankees can secure the third season sweep in the Subway Series on Thursday, as they used the brooms in a six-game set in 2003 while the Mets swept a four-game series in 2013. 2.
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New research brings us one step closer to eradicating malaria — but progress will take a while Artisanal brooms exist, and they can cost $350 Those whimsical "Fabric of Our Lives" ads hide the ugly truth about cotton
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Fry, who won gold at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, and his team were removed on Sunday by a committee after complaints they were breaking brooms and swearing as they went out for their match, the report said.
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Oakland answered a disastrous four-game sweep against Houston by bringing out the brooms in a three-game set versus the Chicago White Sox, outscoring the latter 18-5 to improve its woeful road record to 12-25.
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Then two other team members madly sweep the ice in front of the stone with little brooms, trying to get as close as possible to the center of a target area made up of four colored, concentric rings.
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Armed with brooms and shovels, they sweep up the usual detritus of discarded vegetables and fruit, along with bottles and plastic packaging, and throw it into the maw of the trucks that haul it away to the dump.
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The team transported the vacuum, as well as carts filled with fans, lights, shovels, brooms and bright orange trash bags, through an emergency exit door, into an elevator and down to the track level on the E line.
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Click here to view original GIFOnce the rock is moving, it's up to the skip, the person on the other end, and the sweepers, the folks with the brooms, to determine whether or not to sweep and how much.
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But there was something charming and inspiring about their Olympic experience, which they capped with victories against Canada and Sweden to clinch the United States' first gold in curling, the ice sport played with brooms and smooth granite rocks.
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In a move that was part public relations exercise and part threat, People's Liberation Army troops that are stationed in the city jogged out of their barracks last weekend to "voluntarily" clean the streets, bearing brooms and plastic buckets.
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MACCALLUM: And you know, but when you look at on -- look at on Angela Merkel, for example, who during -- you know, some recent military exercise over the past year or two, that you&aposre using brooms tricks -- broomsticks, instead of rifles.
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Winners of a franchise-best 17 straight contests, the Cleveland Indians look to bring out the brooms for the fifth consecutive series on Sunday night when they play the finale of their three-game set against the visiting Baltimore Orioles.
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As participants entered the ballroom in which the incantation was to take place, they were greeted by four witches dressed in black wearing traditional pointed hats, holding brooms in an arch over the attendees' heads to bless and purify them.
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And of course, it contained some admittedly impressive microphone choreography that will remain burned on my brain until I die, because of the time my friend Declan and I copied it off the TV in his living room with brooms.
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Interns ran up from the basement with brooms and swept madly from the corners, porters tied off the trash bags, the line cooks pulled down pint containers from shelves above their stations — inside were kits with bandannas, thermometers, pencil-thin flashlights.
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The team puts a lot of effort into the details of the decorations overall, like adding flying brooms in the trees and hiding secret Death Eater dark marks throughout the display, much like "hidden Mickeys" being sprinkled throughout Disney World.
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After finding themselves on the wrong end of a four-game sweep in their last series, the Minnesota Twins aim to bring out the brooms in the finale of a three-game set against the Chicago White Sox on Thursday afternoon.
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FOR THOUSANDS OF years and still today in many parts of the world, brooms were fashioned at home as needed from whatever brushy stuff was on hand: reeds, sticks or grasses, lashed together, often with a stick pushed into them.
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BANDOL, India — Dozens of women brandishing brooms swooped down on a straw house in this village on a recent Saturday, sending the owner fleeing through a rice field as they seized buckets of fruit juice being fermented into a cheap liquor.
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About to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its New York premiere, "Stomp" has endured, not thanks to high-priced sets and effects, but from wielding everyday objects like brooms, garbage cans and wooden poles to create a wordless percussive explosion onstage.
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I thought about cutting up my EBT card, but now I think I'll keep it in my wallet to remind me of the wolf that is always at the door — and of the people who live their lives beating it back with brooms.
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Anaheim overcame a three-goal deficit in Monday's 5-23 overtime victory to claim a 3-0 series advantage for the sixth time in club history, with the brooms being brought out the last time it did so in 2015 against Winnipeg.
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The drug game may by the key to riches in the US—it's what puts the "trap" in trap, after all—but here in Indonesia, the game is more about slinging cups of coffee and pushing brooms than slinging keys and pushing weight.
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"Love me tender, love me true," a narrator intones in a gloomy voice, as the Monster continues the zombified exploration of the world symptomatic of his loss, slumping on the floor or skewered by a heap of brooms like Saint Sebastian on Halloween.
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Mixed doubles was a new event at the Olympics — the International Olympic Committee voted to add it to the Pyeongchang Games in 2015 — but when the sport involves ice, brooms and granite rocks, Canada just seems to have a knack for it.
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Each time a curler threw a stone, a leader known as a skip shouted orders to teammates armed with brooms, who vigorously swept the ice in front of the sliding stone to lubricate the surface, making the rock travel faster and straighter.
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The incident in question took place June 23, when Lucille Holt saw Reggie in the parking lot of a Dollar Tree, where he was standing with a lawn mower, accompanied by his siblings and a cart with gas cans, a rake, brooms, and garbage bags.
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There, in his 60s, 70s and 80s, he freed himself from the bright and neat geometric patterns of his earlier work, placing canvases flat on the floor and then splashing paint onto them with brooms and brushes or applying it with fingertips and fists.
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Fry's announcement comes three days after he and team mates Jamie Koe, Chris Schille and DJ Kidby were ejected from a World Curling Tour event in Alberta after organizers said they were drinking before their game, broke brooms and exhibited unsportsmanlike conduct on the ice.
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There is a ceremonial street cleaning—kerchiefed boys throwing bucketfuls of water, aproned girls scrubbing with brooms—followed by a parade, in which the Tulip Queen and her court, high-school seniors, wave from their float, and the school band marches after them in clogs.
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In short order, the cartoons emerging from his workshop started exhibiting a quality that we have since come to take for granted but was revolutionary at the time: all those talking mice, singing lions, dancing puppets, and marching brooms began obeying the laws of physics.
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What you'll find out is that it doesn't matter when you try this, because it has nothing to do with the planets and everything to do with some down-to-earth truths about brooms: First, the bristles flex a little bit and act like a spring.
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The real challenge comes from having to accept you live in a world where a dress can be both blue-black and white-gold, where the words "Yanny" and "Laurel" sound exactly the same but also nothing alike, and where brooms stand upright only some of the time.
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The set consisted of rows of dirty red velour theater seats, and for three and a half hours, the actors walked up and down them with brooms and dustpans, unfolding their hopes and failures in the offhand way that can happen in the weird proximity of a workplace.
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By contrast, "Hurricane Season" is saturated with the language of abuse: men ecstatically molesting their daughters; boys boasting about how exactly they'll rape a friend who they've heard is " the engineer's twink"; an irate grandmother who threatens her disobedient girls with the specter of "lesbians with brooms" assaulting them in juvie.
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The show — which was created in 1991 by Steve McNicholas and Luke Cresswell in England and which opened in the Big Apple in 1994 — features a group of musicians and dancers using ordinary opjects like garbage cans, brooms, matchboxes, Zippo lighters and more to fill the stage with electrifying rhythms and energizing beats.
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Since Forever 21 is jumping on the magical bandwagon, here are some other J.K. Rowling-inspired features we could use: flying brooms to avoid finding a parking space at the mall, golden Galleons to make buying more impressive, and the "accio" spell which avoids all this and summons everything we want right to our homes.
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" Curling is harder and more exhausting than it appears to be on TV. One player slides a heavy, lozenge-shaped stone down an ice sheet toward a target, called the "house," and other players attempt to control the stone's velocity and path by fiercely scrubbing the ice in front of it with long-handled "brooms.
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Throughout the rest of the episode, Levine and Corden sing some of the rocker&aposs famous hits such as "Sugar" and "Moves Like Jagger," and engage in some unique road activities such as car racing and taking part in a balancing competition, where the two attempt to balance objects such as safety cones and brooms on their faces.
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On the Rivière du Loup, or Wolf River, Le Baluchon offers 89 rooms in a mix of inns and chalets on 1,523 acres featuring about 25 miles of cross-country ski and snowshoe trails, a tubing run and an ice rink with supplied equipment for broomball — a hockey-like game played with brooms and without skates.
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"The Sorcerer's Apprentice," an orchestral piece made famous by the movie, is the best-known work of the composer Paul Dukas, and although few viewers knew at the time that the piece was based on a poem by Goethe, of the same name, it is hard to forget the army of brooms, or the eyes of the sorcerer.
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Although this tour won't teach how to cast spells or defend against the dark arts, it will give an informational guide to the wood used in several characters' wands, like holly (Harry), elder (Dumbledore) and yew (Lord Voldemort and Ginny Weasley), as well as to the materials, such as oak and Genista shrubs, that might have made up their brooms. (J.
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But whether you pick up a few names here or there, or have intuited the romantic underpinnings of Harry's relationship with Hermione Granger, everyone has taken something away from the series they've never seen: "All I know is that they play a weird game on brooms," said a young woman named Beverly, "which is fitting since all I know about Twilight is that vampire baseball is a thing."
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You have well-known actors in the main roles: Emma Watson (who is just fine but probably too smart for this sort of role, even with a "reimagined" Belle) in the lead, Dan Stevens as the Beast, Kevin Kline as the dad, Luke Evans as a duller Gaston, and a host of twinkly-toned stars as all the teapots and brooms and cupboards in the castle, including Ewan McGregor, Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, and Ian McKellan, none of whom, alas, can measure up to Jerry Orbach and Angela Lansbury.
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