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"ref": "2014, Kate Knighton, Susan Meredith, Christyan Fox, Why should I bother to keep fit?: Why Should I?",
"text": "So put on your favourite tunes and throw some shapes.",
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"ref": "2016, Alasdair J.H. Jones, On South Bank: The Production of Public Space",
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"ref": "1993, Vince Pitelka, 9 Modern Artists, Bangladesh, page 30",
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"text": "Granted, throwing some shapes on a page is pretty quick, but for your students to turn in a clean-looking diagram, they will have to put forth some effort.",
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"ref": "2001, Clay: A Studio Handbook, page 77",
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"ref": "2018, Michael Nichols, Hell Gate: A Nexus of New York City s East River, page 47",
"text": "Not that Block ignored the Hell Gate islands: his map throws some shapes into the pit of water between the Bronx and Long Island, below the Archipelagus, but it was years later, in 1639, that the so-called Manatus map (“Manhattan, located on the North River\") depicted these islands accurately in size and shape and located them precisely in the places we know them to be.",
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},
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