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The remark carries a delicate wisp of rueful irony.
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Above ground it is a low-slung angular wisp of an object, whose cladding in mirrored steel deprives it of any sense of form or substance.
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A wisp of a player at 5 feet 3, he wasn’t a particularly strong shooter and didn’t score much.
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Six years later, Ritter’s muse finally latched onto that wisp of a notion and it is now a full-blown “hall of distorted mirrors” thriller called “Retreat.”
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He takes a wisp of an idea, a what-if, and turns it into a viable aesthetic.
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