The guides at the memorial wear rough homespun vests, a distinctive Gandhian touch — he promoted homespun cloth, known as khadi, as an alternative to British imports.
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Finally, what do you think of the phrase 'homespun folk'?
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The ampersand, it was thought, added a cutesy, homespun touch.
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Just the fabric, specifically antique homespun handwoven hemp linen textiles.
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Even the customer reviews match Fat Freddy's Cat's homespun vibe.
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Making a great case for knee patches, white jeans and homespun kits.
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Beyond the banks, foreign currency is stored and hidden in homespun ways.
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Every few weeks a new homespun smart mirror pops up on Reddit.
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Club Blu cultivated an image that often veered from homespun to risqué.
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It's easy for sophisticated observers to mock this homespun and hokey metaphor.
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And he has consoled abandoned wives with a dose of homespun wisdom.
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Like everything else in the show, the orchestration has a homespun feel.
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Here are platoons of women with long plaited hair and long homespun dresses.
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A homespun bag held bread that came with butter seasoned with salted fish.
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At the services the faithful prayed and sang homespun spirituals and Hebrew chants.
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The rabbit's appeal may include all the above — or perhaps just homespun familiarity.
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My own homespun crazy wall could only lead to one conclusion: Something was up.
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It was simply too homespun, too intricate, too otherworldly to match his grand ambitions.
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Case in point, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, the homespun pundit-griot from Flint, Mich.
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The best fashion from the men's fall season melds the homespun with the technical.
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To show their commitment, most African delegates wore striped tunics made from homespun cotton.
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" The end result is HOMESPUN, a complicated way to get another word for "simple.
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These academic fools apparently believe they live in Keynes' imaginary homespun economy of 1931!
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For now, live commerce remains a homespun operation, which may be running on borrowed time.
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In keeping with the homespun ethos, there are no glamping options at this lakeside retreat.
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With his homespun phrases and quick wit, Lula had a unique rapport with ordinary Brazilians.
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For Brand, this campaign is at once desperate, homespun, sometimes petty and, invariably, biblically murderous.
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Harrison's music traverses a huge stylistic range, from adamantine dissonance to melodies of homespun sweetness.
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Carter had just been in the White House, with her homespun ethos and handmade clothes.
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The songs boast simple but seductive melodies, and lyrics that have a sweet, homespun quality.
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She had just formed Frightwig, and she was from Arkansas and she was super homespun.
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Like industrial lighting or reclaimed wood, shou sugi ban has a certain rustic, homespun appeal.
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To my born-in-1983 eyes, it seems almost quaint, homespun, aggressively and gleefully unpolished.
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Meyer's homespun, folksy vintage; both looked distinctive from anything else on shelves at the time.
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Indigenous handicraft traditions popularized for tourism and export have emphasized a legacy of homespun goods.
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Today, however, a new group of entrepreneurs is building on Idaho's tradition of homespun growth.
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He was a Muslim who measured well over six feet tall and wore homespun white clothing.
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The country's most effective response solutions are homespun; some 55,000 community volunteers across the coastal belt.
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It's only fitting that the homespun production reflects what the brand reveres: no-frills hard work.
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Among those of us looking for homespun comfort, however, quilts have never been out of style.
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"It's the economy, stupid," has since become famous as a piece of blunt, homespun political wisdom.
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This season, the men's collections in London — which wrapped up Monday — exhibited a distinctly homespun air.
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When he's tempted to smoke it, the comedy meshes homespun morals with cosmic leaps of fancy.
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Freedman later reminisced that she was seeking "the old ways"—homespun, intimate traditions passed down through generations.
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When he rhymed, we rhymed too, believing that we could spit homespun verse to proclaim our majesty.
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"Bush's style was a little more homespun and evangelical religious, which appealed to [the Amish]," Kraybill said.
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Some diners might say bread wet with drippings is too homespun for a dish that costs $68.
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Wanderlust The homespun island oasis has inspired many an expat, and always has room for one more.
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It is also a national manifesto, nay, an obsession expressed in the constant pursuit of homespun pleasures.
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In turn, the floral style began to mirror the food movement: homespun fantasies of nature's seasonal delicacies.
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And Ms. Roberts was hardly the first homespun prophet to emerge from the valleys of upstate New York.
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Though hardly all homespun frugality, Mr Khan is not deep-pocketed like members of Pakistan's usual political clans.
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It's a mundane but meaningful moment, evoking homespun warmth and childhood familiarity in service of player/character bonding.
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First staged in 2009, "The Birds" also has little of the homespun lyricism associated with this playwright's dialogue.
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Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska can style himself as a humble, homespun remedy to Trump's cupidity and histrionics.
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Yet it was her keen feeling for James Agee's elegiac, homespun text that made the performance exceptionally moving.
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Though Gomer Pyle's voice was cartoonishly high and homespun, it belied another of Nabors' talents: as an operatic baritone.
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Candidates pursued "a particular brand of polished authenticity…homespun and unfiltered"—but to achieve it, they turned to professionals.
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Reproducibility and automation are especially difficult for homespun systems whose components are open source, unsupported and/or non-existent.
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" Elsewhere, programmed drums accentuate homespun acoustic guitars and her soothing alto on the cathartic opener "Worst Kind of Girl.
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But there's a strange allure to his homespun electronic recordings as well as his absurd means of presenting it.
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So-called "biohacking" groups have begun experimenting with homespun processes, much as early computer hackers did with information technology.
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I grew up in a historic home, in Ipswich, Massachusetts, a place rich with colonial history, and homespun folklore.
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His irresistible warm potato flatbread, which comes nestled in a square of homespun linen, is drenched in golden butter.
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BON IVER "22, a Million" (Jagjaguwar) Justin Vernon set the homespun aside for his third album as Bon Iver.
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This season, Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta worked with familiar silhouettes, to which they applied their own homespun eclecticism.
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Even viewers who still loved the Robertsons and their homespun antics may have been tiring of the whole premise.
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A few of them exit when Holley begins performing, hunched at a keyboard with a homespun quilt draped over it.
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At every turn, the production has a homespun, "let's put on a show" quality that's perfect for its fairground setting.
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"With his homemade swing and homespun charm, Arnold Palmer had swagger before we had a name for it," Obama said.
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Swellhead Bigmouth Poet," while John Ahern, writing in The Boston Globe in 1964, mocked his "vaudeville" verse as "homespun doggerel.
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Some Aalto designs seemed to update homespun basics, like his signature three-legged stool — which stacks into handsome cylindrical carousels.
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She exhibited a level of vulnerability, possibly nervousness that softened the homespun sneer she can sometimes exhibit in her briefings.
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Conventional developers are starting to play with the idea, bringing a swankier gloss to what had been homespun group housing.
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The world, he continues, needs less technological innovation, or rather, a different type of technology: manual, homespun, labor-intensive, local.
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But while this surge of half-mystic, half-homespun enlightened grooming products may seem new, their purported promise is not.
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Poet Robert Frost — about as identified with New England as one could be — also favored homespun, familiar, even clichéd scenes.
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Hard to articulate but there's a homespun quality to the music on Dreams that feels linked by the intimate exchanges themselves.
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No. But it does change this passage of Clinton's speech, which seemed so sincere and homespun—now it seems copy-pasted.
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Every year, I tramped up Fifth Avenue with my schoolmates in the Salute to Israel parade, carrying homespun, glitter-adorned banners.
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Sure, it's sourced from Nuevo León, and it's equipped with an appealingly homespun logo, and it comes in a glass bottle.
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He wore his Romanness on his tongue, with an accent and a homespun vocabulary that outsiders mocked but that Romans loved.
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Shallow perspective makes farmers and mountains look about the same size, lending the men monumental eternity and the landscape homespun life.
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Protesters wore homespun clothing and ostracised those who drank English tea—even the stuff washed ashore after the Boston Tea Party.
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After all, in 19601 Keynes turned into a vocal protectionist and even wrote an ode to the virtues of "homespun goods".
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Depending on who you ask, Duster are low-key gurus of homespun slowcore, space rock or somewhere super-ephemeral in between.
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He has transferred his old boxing skills and his poetry and his homespun philosophy to another realm, from words to magic.
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We morphed into a different style, more of a homespun kind of thing because we started using our home studios around then.
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The laptop connects to a homespun hemispherical speaker, made by adding car speaker drivers and high-efficiency amplifiers to Ikea salad bowls.
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But like a lot of homespun experimenters, out of these humble means, she's happened upon a sound that's unlike virtually anything else.
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Instead it takes on a more personable tone befitting its plain-spoken subject, allowing the audience to enjoy Ivins's homespun, merciless wit.
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He is quiet and sensitive, a game if occasionally skeptical audience for his friend's flights of speculation, worldly learning and homespun philosophy.
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On average, homespun videos cost 20 percent less to run on Facebook than more professional footage, even before factoring in production costs.
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Painted from a photograph, the homespun representation depicts almost the opposite of a superstar, and Combs seems to like it that way.
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This is a collection of homespun videos from Amazon sellers hawking products while their kids mess with the lights in the background.
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He knew of an excellent homespun recipe from a former colleague at Heroku, a company that helps startups build cloud-based apps.
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The costumes, designed by Jacqueline Durran, are a triumph of the homespun: a plausible patchwork of things borrowed, mended, or handed down.
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But others, including farmers and blue-collar workers, find a lot to like in Mr. Xi's appeals to patriotic pride and homespun populism.
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In times of crisis, Americans have borrowed English idioms, and coined a few of their own homespun mottos for personal and economic perseverance.
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Several photographs in Hardcore combine multiple tropes, for example, images of women penetrating each other with candlesticks, an experiment in early, homespun dildos.
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She's a study in fortitude, and a fount of homespun advice ("Remain true to yourself"; "You can do new things at any age").
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With the fashion tribe glued to their Instagram feeds, there's an understandable allure to the tactile quality and homespun feeling of these blankets.
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Tequila production is largely industrialized, at least for the brands available in the United States, but mezcal is still the equivalent of homespun.
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Inside were trunks packed with perfectly preserved Victorian-age garments and goods, hand-sewn men's shirts, painstakingly embroidered napkins and homespun baby clothes.
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Perhaps that Russia's youth are just as eager to embrace their heritage — even if their heritage isn't just homespun folksiness or czarist magnificence.
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Today, El Xitxarel-lo, marketed through a homespun and irreverent social media campaign, amounts to the blockbuster that has saved the family business.
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The appeal of KittiesMama, a vlogger family voted one of the top social media influencers in 215 by Forbes magazine, is definitely homespun.
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Frilly at first, our relationship to what seems familiar and homespun soon becomes scrambled, as do our perceptions of place, time, and touch.
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That growth came from hot gaming titles such Epic Games' Fortnite and the fact that the chips were adopted by homespun cryptocurrency enthusiasts.
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It was one of those the-way-we-live-now kind of works, both homespun and high-tech, with elements familiar and unsettlingly novel.
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That means the company "not be able to rely on such homespun methods as crowdfunding it has been using to raise capital," Nikkei added.
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The desserts were simple and homespun: caramel flan, caramel crepes, fresh strawberries with whipped cream, and ice cream in two flavors: chocolate and vanilla.
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Putin draws some of his authority from a close relationship to the Russian Orthodox Church; Kadyrov relies on a crude homespun version of Islam.
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On the same block, stroll over to Homespun: Modern Handmade, which sells work by more than 400 artists and artisans, about half from Indiana.
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On the afternoon of Sunday, June 18, artist and programmer Jeffrey Alan Scudder will demonstrate some of his homespun digital painting and audio software.
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Even this show's early numbers, extolling the homespun virtues of small-town life with harmonic "aahs" and folksy bluegrass chords, have a depressive undertow.
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There's a lot of homespun sense of place in Iowa, but there was no place where people served me waffles the shape of Iowa.
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" Ma Joad gives the family this homespun pep talk when the car breaks down on the way to California: "This here bearing went out.
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And with their success and online fame, they may be losing the homespun quality that once distinguished them from the crowd of celebrity endorsers.
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And it has picked up a charming assortment of mostly acoustic instruments — vibraphone, accordion, steel drum, flute — that make all the intricacy sound homespun.
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As the third season commences on Wednesday, it's fair to ask whether this FX anthology of homespun murder has used up all of them.
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I hope that when they grow up, they'll think of our homespun science experiments as early steps in a fruitful quest for hidden truths.
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Attendance at her homespun plays was "mandatory," jokes Ella, whose parents, John Travolta and Kelly Preston, dutifully watched their budding thespian from the front row.
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Life display, a medley of clipboards, photographs, and cardboard signage, has the same homespun quality as much of the other visual material in Ecological Consciousness.
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Photograph by Pari Dukovic for The New Yorker Hay deals in homespun-looking cotton, stiff collars, ruffles, and floral prints that are almost uncomfortably naïve.
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Using humor and homespun psychology, the coaches of Iceland, Lars Lagerback and Heimir Hallgrimsson, pinned a picture during their training base in the French Alps.
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Of course, there are the requisite rustic photographs — do all cookbook writers live in the woods these days, eating off bare planks or wrinkled homespun?
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Beyond that diverse selection of homespun apps, Reliance has also taken an M&A-based approach to assemble the pieces of its super app strategy.
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That's unless it doesn't plump for its own homespun alternative, which media reports have claimed it has built in the case of an emergency situation.
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As the world unravels, the practical lessons and homespun philosophies of "Shelter" are more urgent than nostalgic, drawing pilgrims to Mr. Kahn's still-groovy abode.
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Helped by a homespun narration and good-natured interviews, the filmmakers lock down a "no rancor here" tone that vigorously asserts itself at every turn.
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New money, shows and advertisers are pushing aside the homespun channels that have made it an important outlet, threatening to marginalize serious content, especially politics.
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Along with homespun crafts, Porto has its share of serious contemporary art, including the work on show at this large, raw gallery on Rua Miguel Bombarda.
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Part boat, part dragster, and often painted red, white, and blue, these homespun buggies look like something from an American parody of Mad Max: Fury Road.
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A hard-bitten professional campaign consultant, hopping cross-country flights to snag rich donors, might find the crowd at the Union Jack Pub a little homespun.
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After more than four decades of hosting this homespun Americana musical variety program, which he created and which, in turn, created him, Mr. Keillor is retiring.
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Who else could have used a charkha, a spinning wheel, and khadi, Indian homespun cloth, as symbols of economic self-reliance and empowerment for a nation?
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I don't recall what we were talking about, but Priebus had a knack for homespun Wisconsin logic and, particularly, throwaway lines that would stick with me.
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For the latest in Reuters' "Life Lessons" series, we talked to Samuels about how he helped his family transform a homespun hobby into a global phenomenon.
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He wanted the orchestra to embrace a more homespun, let's-put-on-a-show attitude — quite different from its usual attempts to achieve die-cut perfection.
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Tate, who was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1943, chose, early on, a tactically frivolous, essentially defensive manner, full of homespun jokes and antic swerves.
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While chaos engulfs Venezuela's cities, his social-media team has been seeking to humanise the dictator with video vignettes that emphasise his homespun origins and simple wisdom.
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Thornton Dial (1928-2016) was a self-taught Alabama artist whose paintings and sculptures composed from all kinds of found materials embody a kind of homespun totemism.
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"The Andy Griffith Show" and later "Matlock," on which Mr. Griffith starred as a homespun but deceptively savvy defense lawyer, were network television staples for 2500 years.
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Priebus summed up the medical portion of our check-in with a characteristically homespun Wisconsin maxim: "I take my health one day at a time," he said.
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"That whole homegrown, homespun thing is really what created her empire," said Elizabeth Musmanno, president of the American division of the Fragrance Foundation, a perfume industry organization.
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Mr. Kemp speaks slow as molasses, with a deep Georgia drawl, and he's able to connect with a lot of Georgia voters with a more homespun style.
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Consuming baking soda, pre-workout, might sound like a folksy, jacked grandmother's homespun tip for a great CrossFit workout but, surprisingly, there's science to back it up.
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With his homespun politics, moderation on racial issues and business-oriented conservatism, Mr. Cochran may have seemed out of place on the modern Washington merry-go-round.
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You could go for an elegant look, frosting the cake and drizzling caramel sauce over the top or decorate with swirls of buttercream for a homespun finish.
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She championed natural, do-it-yourself versions of store-bought baby food and more healthful alternatives to sugary snacks, and offered homespun counseling drawn from her experience.
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Ms. Wolfe passed a standard memory test with ease, and the appointment turned into a session of helpful hints that seemed almost homespun but were backed by evidence.
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The Farmer's Daughter, a general store that sells everything from vegetables to homemade pies to homespun crafts, was started by dairy farmers Jim and Fern Austin in 1992.
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Unlike more famous social media toddlers and babies, with their reams of sponsored content and annoying glamour shots, there's still something refreshingly homespun about Baby Jayde's Instagram page.
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It was a halcyon era for homespun indie rock; all of these avenues allowed for many otherwise low-key artists to have a moment in the digital spotlight.
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" From a 'secret formula' The 225-year-old almanac, with its kitschy cover and homespun advice, noted in 2015 that it's "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor.
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His next venture is a line of yoga sportswear that he says will be made from khadi, the homespun cotton that became an emblem of India's independence movement.
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It was relatively sleepy, populated by artists and homespun cultural fixtures amid the vacancies—a far cry from today's strip of glitzy joints and an incoming Uber headquarters.
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She scoured Yellow Pages and became a de facto apprentice to a homespun pattern maker, using supplies of clipped sheets of paper and fabric samples to practice designs.
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And it takes Schuyler's life's work seriously, as few critics have done, and makes useful points about his embracing of the banal and homespun along with the extraordinary.
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The poignant, observant watercolors by the illustrator E. B. Lewis (no relation) are bathed in subtly changing light, making homespun scenes of country life seem celestial and exalted.
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And each day's homespun story of a beloved pet, whether from Wailuku, Hawaii, or Turner, Me., or most anywhere in between, is as lovely as those I remember.
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With its homespun snapshots, "The Corn Exchange Cookbook" is not exactly a lavish gift book, but its pages promise to become stained and dog-eared from frequent use.
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Photograph by Pari Dukovic for The New Yorker Ma Ke's couture dignifies the harshness of proletarian life with garments of mud-caked homespun, but she is an exception.
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Because of its Appalachia setting and Vance's homespun tales of his grandparents, the book became seen as a kind of ultimate explanation of why Trump won in 2016.
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Now, as consumer gadgets weave themselves ever more tightly into everyday life, patients and their families are finding homespun solutions to problems medical-device manufacturers originally did not address.
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If in a week's time it reverts to the Conservatives, the seat will signal the birth of a new political creed woven from the homespun truths known as Mayism.
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Though that album was full of standouts, Bonny Doon's forthcoming follow-up Longwave, out March 23 via Woodsist, improves on the homespun charm that made their debut so inviting.
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In a statement issued by the White House, Obama spoke about Palmer's "homemade swing and homespun charm", and his on-course swagger "before we had a name for it".
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They may lack the homespun charm and specificity of the most impressive fan-made props, but you know you're getting as close to the designers' original intent as possible.
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But to the people of San Luis Valley — which is isolated, agricultural and missing out on much of Colorado's economic boom — homespun tourist attractions are a way of life.
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He mocked news reports that depict him raging in the White House residence — instead telling homespun anecdotes about quizzing his wife, Melania, about the news media's more provocative claims.
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It is also a national manifesto, nay, an obsession expressed in the constant pursuit of homespun pleasures involving candlelight, fires, fuzzy knitted socks, porridge, coffee, cake and other people.
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The takeaway: Warren's high energy mini-lectures offered a glimpse of her skill at framing detailed policy through a homespun frame of personal experience to make her plans relatable.
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Into a decorous world of silks and parasols it introduced rough women, plump in their homespun skirts, rumps in the air, grubbing for ears of grain dropped after the harvest.
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This has earned Mr. Pence, 20003, both the admiration of Republican voters who identify with his homespun manner and the frustration of outsiders who see him as a dangerous anachronism.
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"The symmetry of the evening goes out in both directions from the slow movement of the double sonata like a club sandwich," he explained using one of his homespun metaphors.
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The reality is that homespun and traditional HIV treatments have a checkered history, particularly in regions of Africa where high rates of infection exist alongside strong faith in folk remedies.
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Think Antoni Gaudí's similarly sized Park Güell in Barcelona, but homespun, distinctly Indian, and made entirely of industrial waste and found rocks, by the self-taught artist Nek Chand Saini.
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Like a totem of her own personal folklore, it isn't entirely new or old, homespun or exotic, but, rather, allusive: to the many-colored stories that live somewhere in between.
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Ben Nimmo, director of investigations at Graphika, notes that by making their posts and personas more generic and homespun for the US audience, Russian trolls have limited their own reach.
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He rather masks his feelings in humor and a feelgood, homespun pop style given to snaky guitar figures, string filigree, sighed backup vocals cooing and aching, and vaguely tropical keyboard coloring.
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In his previous efforts, the songwriter has thrived on transience, nomadically bouncing between New York and LA crafting homespun songs that explore the edges of American music: folk, rock'n'roll, and soul.
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Birtherism, the homespun conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, was picked up by Russian state news media and then cited by right-wing groups.
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Not unlike the political humorist Will Rogers, who appeared in three films for Ford, Fonda's homespun Lincoln uses reason and humor — as well as knowledge of Scripture — to make his case.
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Following the missile test, and fired with similarly homespun precision, was a volley of propaganda from North Korea that included photos of the launch and Kim Jong-un, the country's leader.
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This dramatically beautiful pocket of Appalachian East Tennessee is a place of tiny country churches and a big, homegrown — and homespun — entertainment business, and Christmas is a crucial time for both.
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He showed an eclectic collection that included chaps-style boots, homespun knits (some adorned with gemlike pebbles), relaxed tuxedos paired with elongated shirt sleeves and rectangular eyewear on almost every model.
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It's a homespun, colorful, inviting space, decorated with photos of Papa's mother and grandmother, cartoons of African political satire, a dining nook painted like a children's-book scene of a Senegalese city.
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He joked about marital spats and shared homespun wisdom with newlyweds, encouraged homeless people at a Capuchin monastery and rallied thousands at a World Meeting of Families event in a Dublin stadium.
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Dense and rich in a homespun American style that some people will love and others will find too leaden, it followed Mr. Moore here from Commerce, where it was a big hit.
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Beyond direct-to-camera interviews, part of the material comes from Buffett addressing a group of high school kids, dispensing homespun wisdom life and money that's self-effacing but infused with considerable authority.
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The latest of these homespun testimonials is The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South from John T. Edge, who was born in Clinton, Georgia, and lives now in Oxford, Mississippi.
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The setting for the Queen's comments were as homespun and genteel as could be imagined: Centenary celebrations of the Women's Institute, a quintessentially English organization whose branches share recipes for jam and baking.
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Wang ("In the Family") understands that the more we watch these artists and amateurs' efforts — even if they're somewhat ridiculous — the better we'll come to appreciate the homespun, democratic vitality of such work.
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Desserts (by Angela Diaz, who also worked at Trenchermen) can be just as fun: a sesame-chocolate ice cream sandwich, homespun apple pie with apple ice cream with just a touch of tartness.
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Scholten & Baijings, always ready to embrace a new idea (however old), reinterpreted these embroidered motifs for Maharam's latest textile range, to be released in July, elevating the homespun look with Mondrian-like flair.
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I did not know the history of this color, which goes back to the formation of the Confederate Army; the dye used on their gray homespun suits was sourced from the butternut tree.
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The moment you enter Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church to see Indah Walsh's "homespun (please remove your shoes)," also being performed this week, you're in a diametrically different world: benign, playful, welcoming.
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There are Punjabi princesses in Jackie Onassis sunglasses, book club aunties in top-shelf homespun, parboiled-looking Englishmen, men of letters with Oxbridge accents and the occasional well-buffed South Delhi influence peddler.
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Civil rights groups are suing to overturn the bans as eroding a woman's right to bodily autonomy and say they endanger women who seek riskier illegal or homespun means to terminate a pregnancy.
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His range of subject matter — farmers leaning on fence posts, workmen and women, the rural American scene — recalled some of the homespun quality of Thomas Hart Benton, but without the stylization or melodrama.
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With so many constituencies to appease and the history of collapsed offers for Oncor, Mr. Buffett will have to call on all his negotiating savvy and homespun wisdom to pull this one off.
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Tie-dye has always been about that imperfect homespun finish — but if you can't quite nail it, there's no shame in bringing along the inspiration photos ahead next time you head to the salon.
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Sure, Sister Kate and Sister Darcy raise and harvest the crop according to the cycles of the moon and dress in a distinctly homespun manner, but that doesn't diminish the importance of their work.
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And now I'm bracing myself, because while I fell head-over-heels for the story, I recognize it's a bit of a homespun sweater, just waiting for someone to unravel the many dangling threads.
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A 225-minute drive across the Alpilles from Saint-Rémy, this little bistro has been a cult destination since the '2011s, attracting a quietly glamorous crowd — despite, or perhaps because of, its homespun rusticity.
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The only rewards are the certificate of ownership you get to hang on the wall, access to the meeting, and the pride in knowing you're part of a worldwide community with a homespun heart.
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Yet patchwork and quilting — homespun, traditionally feminine crafts that in times past transformed worn-out clothes or leftover bits of fabric into things beautiful, useful and warm — are having a moment on the runway.
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Riding the breakout success of these recordings, she and Dorsey assembled a touring band that could play both homespun blues and written sheet music — an early example of the archetypal jazz musician's skill set.
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Recalling the food courts of malls but with a homespun vibe and dimmer lighting, food halls are popping up in and around developments, which hope to use them to win over buyers and renters.
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The bulletin board system, or BBS—the often homespun dial-up systems, popular in the 21986s and 19873s, that were built around text-based terminal interfaces—in many cases, played an able stand-in.
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In ancient days, clothing and bedding were made from homespun fabrics woven from native fibrous plants such as wisteria and hemp and necessity demanded that this clothing be recycled for as long as possible.
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But his homespun appeal unexpectedly woos voters, leaving him, his mom (Yvette Lee Brown) -- the sober voice of reason -- and his fun-loving buddies grappling (Bernard David Jones, Marcel Spears) with responsibilities he hadn't anticipated.
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It was a far cry from the ramshackle homespun recording that came from University of Illinois students: the band members were actually well-versed in their instruments and the arrangements felt more meticulously-put together.
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The temple priest, Caru Das Adikari, then delivered a homespun sermon, glancing at his laptop to refresh his memory: the message was simply that people should stop worrying about the future because it did no good.
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It comes in homespun bags that are hand-embroidered with mermaids, seashells and other motifs by women in a Sonoran village, work that permits these craftswomen to earn money yet stay at home with their children.
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Indeed the word itself derives from the fabric made of undyed, homespun wool used for military uniforms by the British in India — the light brown chosen so the troops would blend invisibly into the dusty landscape.
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He released a series of homespun albums in the 230s, which have spent most of the intervening decades more or less consigned to the dollar bins of record shops and the dusty shelves of flea markets.
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In a mass-produced world, it's the homespun and handcrafted that have started to feel like the ultimate luxury — beautifully illustrated by J. W. Anderson's fall offerings, which combine granny-approved quilt patterns and contemporary shapes.
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Mr. McCaig was well known to listeners of the NPR program "All Things Considered" for his homespun dispatches about life on his 22007-acre farm in the Allegheny Mountains, where he and his wife raised sheep.
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And the moment in New Hampshire was another reminder that while Biden's responses may seem folksy or homespun to some, to others they're a sign that he's not always treating voters with the seriousness they deserve.
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This time the illusion holds — the cornfed limpidity of their voices, the conflation of pedal steel and keyboard gleam, the twangy squeak of the rhythm guitar, all produce not warmth or homespun comfort but rather shimmering artificiality.
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Competitors emerged, and Americans and Europeans waved pages from World of Interiors magazine, where Plain English advertised, at their contractors and carpenters, who endeavored to produce copies of Mr. Niblock and Ms. Fontana's high-end, homespun fantasy.
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The tour moved to the boys' room, where two portraits of Martin Luther King, Jr., rested on a yellow dresser, one a photo-realist image from a school-supply store, the other a homespun cartoon on wood.
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The bad reputation of theme park food has been, let's face it, pretty well deserved: All the negative aspects you might find at a state fair — sugary, greasy and overpriced — minus any of the quirky homespun charm.
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Claim to Fame In addition to being a straight-A student and a linebacker for his college football team, Mr. Turner is a budding filmmaker with a knack for making homespun content that ricochets across the web.
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Once disconnected from the rest of the bridge, the central span will be lowered in three sections to barges using a system of powerful "strand jacks" — enormously souped-up versions of the homespun car jack — and cables.
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In a divergence from the highly polished presentations displayed by both Mr. Bratton and, before him, Raymond W. Kelly, Mr. O'Neill has cultivated a homespun style that aides say allows the department, and not its leader, to shine.
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NY1, which is also owned by Charter, is adored by a slice of New Yorkers who are charmed by its homespun feel and its roster of longtime anchors and correspondents like Pat Kiernan, Roger Clark and Roma Torre.
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But in spite of that popularity — and prestigious guests like the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and artists such as Grayson Perry, Vik Muniz, and Toyin Ojih Odutola — the program has lost none of its initial unaffected, homespun feel.
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"We don't need to come up with a homespun guide to how to access cancer care or stroke care," Sarah Wakeman, an addiction medicine doctor and medical director at the Massachusetts General Hospital Substance Use Disorder Initiative, told me.
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It's a film with a seemingly twee and homespun title sequence that actually took eight months and involved repeatedly running high-def photos "through a 'bad Xerox machine' 'til they looked nearly hand-drawn," according to director Jason Reitman.
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Simmering anxieties after homespun terror attacks in Brussels, Paris, and Nice, France, however, have helped fuel right-wing, anti-immigration parties in Europe that have aligned themselves with Trump, a political upheaval that's caused heartburn for the continent's establishment.
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It's the type of homespun Wisconsin burgh where Packers loyalty runs deep and fans of their NFC North opponents are in for some good-natured ribbing—especially if they root for a certain team of seafaring plunderers in 2016.
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But whereas other designers might add sheer fabric or revealing cutouts to modernize their designs, Hay deals in homespun-looking cotton, stiff collars, and prints that are almost uncomfortably naïve (florals, but also tiny strawberries and pastel Teddy bears).
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Mr. Tester is staking his race against Matt Rosendale, a Republican Trump acolyte and the state auditor, on two things: his homespun brand as a Montana lifer and an emphasis on local issues like the state's health care system.
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Pink was taken up by a new generation of feminists as an assertion of proud womanhood, a trend that reached a crescendo at the 2017 inauguration when women descended on Washington en masse, flaunting quaintly homespun-looking pussy hats.
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According to a recent Times article, the word expresses the "constant pursuit of homespun pleasures involving candlelight, fires, fuzzy knitted socks, porridge, coffee, cake and other people" that helps people in Denmark stay happy through the long cold winters.
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Silent Barn's current site is a building on Bushwick Avenue; its original homespun venue, started by a group of roommates in their living room, was shut down after accruing a host of violations from several city agencies in 2011.
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Its new album, "Ladies and Gentlemen" (The Infamous Stringdusters/Compass), features a female guest lead singer on every song (except for an instrumental topped by Jennifer Heartswick on trumpet) above the Stringdusters' self-effacing vocal harmonies and precisely homespun arrangements.
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Last year Anna Silvas, an Australian scholar, charged the pope with writing "tracts of homespun, avuncular advice that could be given by any secular journalist without the faith—the sort of thing to be found in the pages of Readers Digest".
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Popular YouTube family the Bratayleys – who have amassed nearly 3 million subscribers for their videos depicting a fun-loving, homespun approach to everyday life – were dealt a devastating blow in October when their 13-year-old son Caleb died suddenly.
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The Weimar, Germany-based label has exploded in popularity since their humble beginnings in 2006 as a house party that evolved into a club and later became the imprint, yet everything they do still has a personal, homespun mystery about it.
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Or you could head to Balter, in St. Croix's historic Christiansted, where the homespun dish takes on a gloss with foraged leaves of sea purslane and house-pickled peppers adding pops of color and crunch against a luxuriously soft background.
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On DVD Long ago, in a distant galaxy, Hollywood's superhero movies were as modest as the comic books or radio shows that spawned them, using special effects that now feel homespun to conjure fantasies with the artless quality of folk tales.
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In the early 1990s, the iconic SoHo design store Hope & Wilder was among the first to rekindle the romance of homespun New England, rousing tastemakers to replace their Biedermeier with white painted furniture and their silk curtains with mattress ticking.
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In this case, it's mostly because the founders, Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta, describe their work with words like "conceptual" and "homespun," and because they put their friends on the runway and because each collection gets accompanied by a prose poem.
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Indoors at Nowadays, a multifaceted bar and music emporium that opened in January, may well be the place where the area's young creative set, hopping from one homespun art gallery to the next, can coexist with the young families living upstairs.
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He also freely contributed homespun advice on how to excel: "'If you know that someone is going to be somewhere, and you want to meet them, you got to be there an hour early,'" the cousin recalled Mr. Caughman instructing him.
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Other attractions will include face painting, arts and crafts, performances by Story Pirates and Trusty Sidekick Theater Company, and turns on the Homespun Merry-Go-Round, which is as much a one-man art project as it is a ride.govisland.
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The daughter of Angela Missoni (of the Italian knitwear dynasty) can remember the homespun remedies of her childhood: She would gargle apple cider vinegar to soothe a sore throat and breath in thyme essential oils to unblock a stuffy nose.
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But it follows the same basic story arc of that trope, where an outsider who underestimates the new community he lands in arrives to both lead that community's citizens toward a bold new future and learn from their homespun ways.
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With humorous characters and a half a century of colorful memories, this homespun beach-front bar has been weathered by hurricanes, featured notable musicians, poured an ocean full of fruity cocktails and beer and held weekly beachside Sunday church services (with Bloody Mary's).
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Whether based on the advice of a doctor or just an enduring bit of homespun wisdom, many people avoid milk, yogurt, and cheese when they're feeling under the weather, on the belief that dairy increases mucus production and will make their symptoms worse.
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I am 55 now, and even now I keep hearing these homespun yarns about 500,153 people gathering in Upstate New York on a dairy farm in August of 1969 for something so much grander and more majestic than just a rock festival.
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It's hard to find new music being made that points to that lush, homespun psych sound without it sounding derivative, but Frida's "Feel Again," which we're premiering today, pays homage to that golden age of indie without it feeling like a tired retread.
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The scene before me there of a half-dozen employees filling, sealing and labeling glass bottles by hand resembled a homespun operation, not an enterprise where the least expensive Cognac — the elegant Pale and Dry X. O. — costs around $1005 a bottle.
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But as this wide-ranging exhibition will demonstrate, drawing on historical shows from the last hundred years, conventionally educated and connected artists have been seeking the outsiders out for inspiration, energy and authenticity for at least a century, especially here in homespun America.
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The gift of O'Nan's fiction is to immerse us deeply in Henry's essence, in his desire to be useful and his nostalgia for a vanished way of life, for the forgotten homespun rituals and for houses with slate roofs and ornate gables.
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In a speech that was occasionally homespun and sweepingly defiant, Mr. Moore made few references to Mr. Trump, but he summoned themes that are popular among his supporters: opposition to abortion and transgender rights, increased military spending and a harder approach to immigration.
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It exemplifies several features of 21st-century culture: the porous boundaries between the pop industrial complex and the amateur homespun; a globalized circulation of songs based as much on memes as on music; the popularity of unchallenging dance "challenges"; the hegemony of Drake.
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The homespun meal usually begins with a soup, whether cold cucumber or fish caldo, as well as fresh-baked flatbread and fried polenta sticks, while the mains are designed around perfectly cooked pieces of fish and meat that Decq sources from friends.
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Gandhi has long been associated with the homespun cloth known as khadi, as well as with a lesser-known publication: a calendar sent annually to the employees of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission, a government body set up to promote the fabric.
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Nearly 20143 years after Mr. Carter installed solar panels at the White House, only to see them removed during Ronald Reagan's administration, the former president is leasing part of his family's farmland for a project that is both cutting edge and homespun.
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He was perhaps best known for a character he created and performed in a series of one-man plays: Junebug Jabbo Jones, a mythical sort of griot who, speaking in southwestern Mississippi dialect, told homespun stories full of humor and universal wisdom.
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But it's a pair of asymmetrical chairs that are simultaneously the most homespun and high-tech pieces in the show: Stewart fashioned them from dried maple and beech branches he charred with a propane torch and then encased in a translucent vinyl cocoon.
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The self-conscious modernists, imbued with the gospel of democratic rights and material progress—spiritual children of John Stuart Mill or Professor Laski—were impatient of Gandhi's goat, homespun, and prayer meetings, even though they knew that politically they could not do without him.
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The designer, a Rei Kawakubo acolyte, makes clothing that feels fashion-y, with the big hats and giant earrings and slightly bonkers asymmetrical draping, but the simplicity of the fabrics and restraint of his weirdness make his revealing garments feel almost homespun or pastoral.
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John Lee Beatty's rustic set (which shifts neatly to royal sumptuousness for later scenes at the Dauphin's court), Jane Greenwood's homespun costumes and Alexander Sovronsky and Joanna Lynne Staub's sound design summon a world in which people are unavoidably subject to the whims of nature.
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Yet by the end of the Atlantic Theater Company production – directed with gentle care by Neil Pepe — you've discovered that this dribbling, homespun prose has shaped itself into patterns of profound poetry, as if words in invisible ink had been held up to a flame.
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"It's about preserving a moment," Cadbury says of the somewhat lost art of dried flowers, as she loads her homespun press with the cheery pansy crop, before covering them with sheets of cardstock and blotting paper to absorb any moisture (water spoils the petals).
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In transitioning from Idol to X Factor, Cowell said his main goal was to "supersize everything," which is exactly what he did, combining the dramatic glitz and glamour of Idol with the homespun earthiness of the Got Talent franchise (while also leaving Ryan Seacrest's humiliating voiceover behind).
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"Ultimately, if negotiations fail and NAFTA ends, it is likely to be politics that is responsible, as each government has infused the talks with homespun political considerations that are largely defensive and intended for domestic audiences," said James McCormack, Global Head of Sovereign Ratings at Fitch.
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"You do have to maintain tradition, but it's not a display in a museum," said Yang Wen, a chef whose restaurant, Lotus Shadow, features refined dishes, like braised shrimp infused with jasmine tea, that are a world away from the homespun fare favored by old-school revivalists.
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The scope of "Amoris Laetitia" is typical Francis: a broad-ranging blend of biblical passages, meditations on marital love, homespun advice on familial manners, passages bemoaning the frenetic loneliness of modern life and a call for families to come closer to the church, and vice versa.
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But Karma, an East Village gallery situated in a large corner, is unusual in making this strategy into a convincing group show, with a line of handsome paintings on each of four walls: Homespun midcentury portraits and still lifes by the Japanese artist Zenzaburo Kojima (1893-1962).
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Previously, the company had shipped Nexus-branded products that were manufactured by different hardware partners, but Pixel was supposed to be all Googley from the ground up: Designed, developed, and sold by the search company, and running an optimized version of Android, its homespun operating system.
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I've always been fond of Lord Timothy Dexter, author of "A Pickle for the Knowing Ones, or Plain Truth in a Homespun Dress," who in his second edition printed a page of punctuation for readers who felt there wasn't enough in the body of the book.
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Obama at the time was at a low point, voters were tuning him out, and Clinton made the case for his re-election that Obama was unable to make himself, combining his gift for homespun oratory with a policy wonk's command of the issues to dismantle Romney's agenda.
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Fyvush Finkel, whose homespun moniker and putty face — comic statements all their own — helped him become a mainstay of what remained of Yiddish entertainment, and who later crossed over into television as the cantankerous lawyer on the 22009s series "Picket Fences," died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan.
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They came in a gold breastplate (this is, bizarrely, something of a thing this season) over a billowing evening gown or the most homespun of knits, the sort a clan grandmother might make, or enveloped in a faux fur sweatsuit, giant striped scarves trailing behind like a train.
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By the time she retired in 2001 after a series of debilitating strokes, her homespun half-hour program of advice and commentary, "Mother Angelica Live," was the anchor of a 24-hour Catholic programming network reaching over 100 million homes in the United States, South America, Africa and Europe.
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On my walk down Franklin Street I passed a vintage boutique called Walk the West; Home of the Brave, a design store selling homemade earthenware ceramics; and a cafe, Littleneck Outpost, which sells cowboy-ready enamelware mugs and bowls and tea towels made from antique, homespun hemp linen.
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Assembled as a kind of mock old-fashioned scrapbook, in a crowded, homespun style mixing old snapshots and new drawings, Sweet's book begins with the incidents of White's early life that left him permanently scared, if not scarred, by public speaking or a public presence of any kind.
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Yet even if machine-made silk saris are typically softer and thinner than homespun ones, they often lack the same level of embroidery, coloring and attention to detail that Indian consumers prize, said Delphine Marie-Vivien, a researcher at Cirad, a French government agency that specializes in agricultural research.
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Waitress is a homespun tale about a young woman who toils away at her local country diner while crafting delicious pies of every variety, the names of which are cheeky reflections of plot points — for instance, Jenna makes "betrayed by my own eggs" pie after she finds out she's pregnant.
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Haeg, who has been here for 15 months, has mostly been trying to bring the place, with its range of idiosyncratic cabins in various states of disrepair and its homespun yet surprisingly effective water and power infrastructure — one original communard had been an engineer — up to some level of rustic comfort.
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The strategy was for him to act like the innocent Harvard dorm inventor who is just as surprised as any of us by the way his homespun platform has grown, and who is now ready to grow up himself and make sure his digital behemoth becomes a force for good.
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You might not like it all (though it's not hard to imagine those homespun balaclavas becoming a thing the next time the temperatures hit minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit), but it was viscerally recognizable, the way really good fashion — which is not the same thing as wearable clothes — is supposed to be.
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"Her homespun brand of half-boiled New Age spirituality, spiked with neoliberal politics and inspirational hokum, plays well with fridge-magnet philosophers like Harry and Meghan," wrote the columnist, Jan Moir, who went on to pillory the couple, in more earnest tones, for refusing to display the baby to photographers.
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" That piece of homespun wisdom comes from "Bull Durham," the best and smartest of baseball movies, if only for the rare insight that the game is not about grand slams and no-hitters, but the vast space in between — what The New Yorker's Roger Angell once called "the dusty middle innings.
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Along with Rosaleen, the black woman who has cared for her since she was small, Lily flees to the nearby town of Tiburon, where she happens upon May, June, and August Boatwright, three black beekeeper sisters, who practice a homespun religion centered on a statue of a black Virgin Mary.
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The politics of domesticity overlapped with the politics of race in SubSuperior, a solo show from Pat Philips at Catinca Tabacaru, in which homespun symbols — a tin of pomade, orange work vests, a pair of black boots — resonate with associations to white supremacy, forced labor, and the prison-industrial complex.
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This identity is expressed in Teutonic-influenced décor (think homespun curtains and pillows, lots of blonde wood, wood burning "stube" stove to keep the public rooms toasty) and a homey ambience communicated through a warm welcome from the owners, often attired in lederhosen (paired with a Patagonia jacket) or embroidered dirndl.
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As we file into seats on either side of the long, narrow playing space designed by Raul Abrego, we see two women in homespun robes sitting in what looks like a medieval cloister, complete with flagstones, plantings and, in evocative projections by Katherine Freer, forever views of lavender and wheat.
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As a member of Jawbreaker Reunion, and now as Long Neck (once a solo project, but now a full-fledged band that she leads), she's become one of the best songwriters in the crew of DIY-minded musicians who elevate mundane experiences into universal sentiments on the back of simple, homespun rock songs.
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Over the course of a dozen-plus full-length albums—some solo, some in collaboration with the City of Angeles' finest fellow weirdos—he's created a dizzy dreamworld of gleaming synths, disembodied vocals, and off-kilter drum programming that feels far more homespun, heartwarming, and human than its electronics born construction may suggest.
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You don't spend forty years telling people to vote for the outsider young governor, or the outsider young senator for president or outsider businessmen for House and U.S. Senate seats, and not expect all of those homespun, glossy ads and finely crafted messages to not eventually penetrate the psyche of the American voter.
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I ask because there has been a deluge of recrimination hurled at her for the Billboard magazine interview in which she is said to have thrown hip-hop under the bus by remaking herself as a homespun country girl reaching out across the partisan divide to speak to supporters of the current president.
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WATCH THIS: Home Hack: The Lazy Way to Clean Your Microwave I don't typically mess around with homespun natural remedies when it comes to scrubbing a tub or wiping down windows — sorry Pinterest DIYs, my vinegar is for salad dressing — but given the chance to test these out, I was pleasantly surprised.
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In 1976, Yves Saint Laurent did the couture version of the peasant look, and it wasn't until the '70s that the twists on the "working the land" aesthetic of the American prairie — bohemian versions of the garb of Willa Cather heroines and the homespun traditional dress of Amish and Mennonite women — went mass market.
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It's great to have some of the most reputable dance ragers in the world shack up and do their version in the jungle, but as evidenced by Day Zero and Maya Hearts, there's enough homespun energy in the region now for BPM to build champions of its own instead of borrowing from the Balearic Islands.
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In the movie (in theaters now) Ben, the patriarch (Viggo Mortensen), and his rambunctiously inventive brood, dress in a giddy pastiche of homespun togs and hand-me-downs: country plaids, fringed ponchos, thrift-shop sweaters and patchwork vests — a visual hybrid, in short, of Kesey's Merry Pranksters (minus the drugs) and the recent Gucci runway.
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Stacked two by two, Lego-like, the containers make a modest low-slung one-bedroom dwelling that Mr. Fisk has decorated with homespun touches like a leather Eames lounge chair, a tchotchke shelf over the narrow staircase, folk art on the plywood-clad walls, a rag rug, skylights and hanging plants in macramé slings.
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The various plots include a military veteran (Warren Christie) who has recently returned from war, a foreign-born mother (another "Tyrant" alum, Moran Atias) trying to protect her young son after being seized by immigration enforcement, and the couple that serves as the glue for the whole complex (Frankie Faison, Lorraine Toussaint), dispensing homespun wisdom.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Curated by the award-winning critic, and former Hyperallergic Senior Editor, Jillian Steinhauer and dotted with homespun memorials and retiring audiovisuals, In the Presence of Absence is a smart, understated group exhibition whose hushed atmosphere calls attention to grief's lingering effects in public and private life, particularly for people from historically marginalized communities.
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Though their sick, sick synchronized dance moves in the video for "The Competition" may have you believing that the Dodos are nothing more than a couple pretty boys plucked from the ether by a Lou Pearlman-type to make teenage girls swoon, their decade plus making beautiful homespun pop music should be enough to convince you otherwise.
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All that's really needed to understand how Chief Justice Roberts could extend courtesy, and with it continued life to Arthur but without explanation, or a distinction that makes a difference, deny it to Smith, is a bit of homespun wisdom from avant-garde political writer, Mercy Otis Warren, (an advisor to presidents and generals during the Revolutionary War).
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Not Vanya, the steward of his late sister's estate (played with defiant, abject rawness by a brilliant Mr. Sanders); or his niece and fellow manager, Sonya (Yvonne Woods, pinched with care); or her imperious father, Alexander Serebryakov (an elegant, fatuous Mr. DeVries), an aging professor in residence with his new, beautiful young wife, Elena (Celeste Arias, giving a traditionally glamorous part a homespun naïveté).
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The humble, homespun spirit usually associated with retiring, self-enclosed communities of believers has been imported, not unlike the covered-up dressing trend, to an arena that feels largely alien to it, but that embraces its tenets — the handcrafted, the natural, the rustic — at least inasmuch as they can be marketed as a kind of soothing artisanal salve to the alienations of late-capitalist life.
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As a new anniversary-themed batch of "Little House on the Prairie" books rolled in this fall — with homespun-looking covers and introductions by luminaries including Laura Bush and Patricia MacLachlan (author of the gentle Newbery Medal-winning novel "Sarah, Plain and Tall") — I found myself plunging back into the "Little House" world I'd loved as a child, with a strange feeling of urgency.
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Pipher's new book, "Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing as We Age," which enters its second week on the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 10, aims to serve as a corrective, both practical and inspiring, adorned with Pipher's signature homespun maxims ("Grief isn't just something to endure; it also is a reflection of our capacity to love") and a generous smattering of nature imagery.
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At moments like this, or in the hwedupbap filled with raw fish as strikingly good as any you'll find in a $200 omakase, or in the doenjang jjigae, a potful of braised fermented bean paste with pork belly that appears on the menu as "yesterday's stinky soybean stew" and manages to be homespun and polished at the same time, it's possible to see Kawi as Ms. Park's response to Atomix.
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On any given Monday you can spend a whole morning cataloging the breadth of things for sale at the market that fills the streets of Den Burg, the largest town on the island: a woman with baskets filled with homespun wool; a man churning out poffertjes, tiny pancakes blanketed in powdered sugar; another showing off an implement presumably of his own design, an extendable squeegee used to wash second-floor windows from the ground.
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