1.   Big, thick wire bound in blue plastic.

2.   But this summer, the monument will be surrounded by scaffolding and swathed in blue plastic so the mortar can be repointed.

3.   Impish and chatty and wearing a permanent layer of dirt, Janjul rises every day at dawn, grabs his blue plastic sack and begins his garbage collection rounds.

4.   On Wednesday, the black luxury limousine was sitting in a garage just outside of Baltimore, wrapped in blue plastic.

5.   One of the chips removed from her cheek was blue plastic.

6.   Sheets of bright blue plastic, pulled over the ruins like tastelessly gaudy shrouds, are everywhere.

7.   She transformed the blue plastic into a fairytale gown wafting through the sky.

8.   Thai workers make imitation jewelry, sometimes using blue plastic instead of turquoise stone and a nickel-zinc alloy for silver.

9.   They prayed on the street corners with their eyes locked on the corpses draped with blue plastic being brought out of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building.

10.   These days the girls pack and wheel around their own little suitcases, blue plastic with big red and yellow stripes and a zipper pocket for a toothbrush.