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For decades, there has been a general but vague sense that the concert hall needs to be turned inside out; that audiences want a more direct engagement with the music; that to compete with television, video and popular music, something radical had to happen to the old shoe-box symphony hall, with its orderly rows of seats and formal distance between listener and musician.
In Miami, the shape of things to come Philip Kennicott 2011
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Multiplication tables to be memorized and complicated shoe-box dioramas to construct: The Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, with a battered old Ken doll in the starring role of Miles Standish.
Fascination Susan Kleinman 2011
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Their five wall-mounted sculptures are angular and approximately shoe-box size.
John and Joe Dumbacher exhibit minimal sculptures in 'Cut,' part of BackroomNY Blake Gopnik 2010
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Have broken free from their back closet shoe-box lair and are now ART.
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When I was in fifth grade I was assigned to make a shoe-box diorama of the White House.
C. Brian Smith on dining with Dubya Smith, C. Brian 2009
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Together, they are a well-oiled machine, as they multiply whatever they're having for dinner into, by 120 to 140 home cooked meals, carefully packed with love and care in his tiny kitchen, in his shoe-box size flat.
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Brad McCoy reportedly brought a shoe-box of Texas dirt to the hospital and slid it under the bed so that Colt could be born “over Texas soil”.
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It was like a shoe-box on four wheels and it got the job done.
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Southcom officers deride DEA record keeping as a shoe-box operation.
Risky Business 2008
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The Pentagon had shrunk, by Perot's own measure, to shoe-box size, and he was its unquestioned master.
The Second Coming 2008
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