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Birkmaier was re-enacting one of the most brazen art heists in recent memory: the 1985 theft in broad daylight of Willem de Kooning’s 1955 painting “Woman-Ochre” from the University of Arizona Museum of Art.

From New York Times • May 20, 2022

Did he have a sense that he was re-enacting that famous scene?

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2015

He said he was re-enacting an ancient Korean custom in which a sinner seeking forgiveness would sit on a straw mat on the street and fast.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2015

McNamara was re-enacting Kennan’s testimony in his mind—the counterfactual of what might have been but wasn’t.

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2014

Silent Sam was re-enacting the entire episode in pantomime for the benefit of Tim and Tess and some other infant creatures.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques