Harriet is a child assembling herself from books, much in the way the classics students in The Secret History do.
In her heart of hearts, Ms. Philo, seems to believe that a woman can look perfectly attractive by assembling herself from whatever she might find among her grandmother's lace heirlooms or tossed aside on the floor of her boyfriend's closet, and it is this ethos that has made her tenure at Chloé a winning one.
In another show, a bag lady who has assembled herself out of a heap of miniature refuse peers into the puppeteer's own mouth in search of new objects".
I am not Tsuriko Shepard at all, but as a character I feel like she spontaneously assembled herself from parts presented to me.
Her father later said her mother gave him an ultimatum: "She said, 'Either she goes or I go.' " Such abandonments would occur regularly throughout Paula's childhood, her parents sometimes disappearing for years at a time before popping up again to disrupt whatever routine and sense of security she had managed to assemble for herself.
The book we read today, Brown reveals, was assembled by herself in 1959 from Shepherd's junked notebooks and sealed for 50 years, to be opened in 2009 — when she hoped it could inform readers about "those who labored and birthed the times they have inherited".
Prettily decked out with eggshell-blue patio furniture, a stainless-steel cooking range and a wood-burning chimney that keeps it toasty on even the coldest of days, eating here is like sitting in Hedworth's own kitchen, as she busies herself assembling plates of, for example, potted chicken livers with pickled red grapes and toast, or a roast fennel, orange and dill salad with honey dressing.
It seems her mother's not really looking at herself, but at the pieces of herself she's assembling.
Like other conceptual artists, she sets herself rules, choosing not to use glue when assembling her works.
We will also be speaking to the stars of Carol, including Blanchett herself, checking out Louder Than Bombs, a drama with Jesse Eisenberg and Isabelle Huppert and assembling a very special edition of the film show.
However, because she herself gave CRS and CRC little attention and because these teams were ignored in assembling the core of the privately contracted teams sent to Afghanistan, Congress is planning to slash these budgets by about 50% in 2011.
