No more alabaster piano keys, no more intricately carved jewelry.
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Archeologists also discovered a huge alabaster head in the tomb.
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This huge alabaster head was also found during the dig.
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But a mystery remains: Where did the alabaster come from?
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Both were historically well-known as centers for the alabaster trade.
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Like the crystalline structure of alabaster, its rigidity is a weakness.
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I met my partner, Alabaster, in a basement black-box theater.
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The alabaster pale singer regularly dyed his hair black since high school.
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He loved working with rich or unexpected materials — rare woods or alabaster.
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Shiploads of alabaster artwork escaped the furnaces and were sent to France.
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Clyde Wide Brim Pinch Hat in Alabaster Angora, $123, available at Clyde.
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Conocí a Alabaster, mi pareja, en un teatro ubicado en un sótano.
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Alabaster helped me through this loss, and we clung to each other.
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White as heavy cream, porcelain glows like alabaster when placed in the light.
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"I was fascinated with the latest gothic sculpture in polichrome alabaster," Mas recalls.
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A carved alabaster head, which probably depicts the tomb's owner, was also found.
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The carved alabaster head probably depicts the tomb's owner (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities)
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Alabaster helped me get around campus, and others assumed he did much more.
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It is, of course, beautiful, with lush gardens and buildings with alabaster walls.
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A hand carved alabaster bust of Abraham Lincoln but with Gortat's close-cropped Mohawk.
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Alabaster y yo nunca dejamos de vernos del todo, aunque saliéramos con otras personas.
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Alabaster me ayudó a superar esa pérdida y nos aferramos el uno al otro.
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Alabaster and I never completely stopped seeing each other, although we dated other people.
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To one side Gaston Lachaise's marvelously alive portrait bust of O'Keeffe, in alabaster, observes.
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A carved alabaster head, which may depict one of the tomb's occupants, was also discovered.
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I fell in love with the material of alabaster, and the process of carving stone.
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It is a denouement that illuminates the final pages like a flame glowing through alabaster.
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Alabaster also has an in with Hillsong, the evangelical megachurch that's become popular among Christian celebrities.
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Though brunette, Ellie has the same alabaster glow and sparkling blue eyes as Kurt's Aunt Elisabeth.
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This exchange was long thought to be one of the primary sources of the country's alabaster.
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A bed he designed looks like a sarcophagus crafted from alabaster, and weighs over a ton.
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Aside from the extortionate $26 entrance fee, the gigantic alabaster eyesore employed a no phones policy.
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Her current series includes wall sculptures; stone paintings; abstract, hand-carved alabaster pieces; an onyx installation hung with hemp, and a site-specific alabaster and marble installation in which one side is raw, and the other is carved and polished—revealing the dualistic components of nature.
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After all, a grotesque-looking alabaster sculpture of a man's head was also found near the tomb.
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The only other item discovered at the site was an alabaster bust, its features destroyed beyond recognition.
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Such signatures are fingerprints that made it possible to match the flakes to their original alabaster quarries.
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At times he quotes from Abdullah Ibrahim; elsewhere his inflections have the alabaster elegance of Keith Jarrett.
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The Twilight star plays Samuel Alabaster, a pioneer who journeys across the country to be with Wasikowska's Penelope.
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Alabaster makes it sound like a matter of enhancement of, possibly even a correction to, the reading experience.
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In fact, instead of dyeing his hair that coveted alabaster color, he douses it with Klorane dry shampoo.
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Alabaster me ayudaba a desplazarme por el campus y algunas personas asumieron que hacía mucho más que eso.
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"We did not know that this was really a major source of alabaster in western Europe," said Dr. Kloppmann.
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But the women are always game to clap and laugh and cry, offering their alabaster faces for reaction shots.
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Maybe they wondered what a great, sighted guy like Alabaster was doing with this blind-woman ball-and-chain.
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"Alabaster Hamilton" kicks things off, crooning about the importance of getting a shot as the start of flu season looms.
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Instead, I gave the models alabaster skin, rouged cheeks, and berry-stained lips — and the cover got a lot of attention.
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But the co-founders of Alabaster believe these issues shouldn't be blamed necessarily on religion as much as its existing structures.
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Trilobites Medieval and Renaissance sculptors carved gorgeous statues and religious icons from alabaster, a soft, creamy white stone similar to marble.
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Perched high on the Alabaster Coast, this charming village has attracted many painters, writers, and musicians since the late 19th century.
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From blackheads and whiteheads to milium (tiny alabaster bumps), the good doc is doing all kinds of extractions around the delicate area.
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You can spot her in any crowd: alabaster skin and hair that flames red as a poppy blooming in the early summer.
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Ours are twisted with alabaster glass," she explains, adding: "We want people to come in and say, 'I want to live here.
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He lugged Seti's alabaster sarcophagus out of the tomb and sold it to the architect and collector Sir John Soane, in London.
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The kitchen has a handcrafted brick, barreled ceiling and honed alabaster countertops, according to the listing by Gloria Nilson & Co Real Estate.
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Her eyes finally closed, her skin an unearthly alabaster like the wax figures of saints under glass in the churches of Rome.
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The range of colors cater to — and work well with — a variety of skin tones, from the palest alabaster to deeper, darker shades.
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There will always be the fitness princesses wearing gym couture on the StairMaster, breaking a delicate glow of perspiration across their alabaster brows.
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Then, I started making a habit of covering my teeth with my lips when I noticed yet another alabaster smile next to me.
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Quizá se preguntaban por qué un chico genial y con vista normal como Alabaster estaba con una mujer ciega que parecía un lastre.
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In the 16th century European guesses about porcelain's composition ranged from alabaster—a form of the mineral gypsum—to crushed shells buried for centuries.
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This alabaster sculpture stands almost eight feet tall, and shows a mythical, winged figure who appears to pluck a cone or piece of fruit.
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On a recent summer evening, the sleek young bankers lining the bar were gently illuminated by the alabaster shades of the massive sculptural fixtures.
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The pair were designing an Easter photo shoot for Alabaster, their new iteration of the Holy Bible, which resembles a high-end minimalist magazine.
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" On the last night of camaraderie over beers, someone said, "You and Alabaster have been one of the most popular topics of conversation here!
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A large, black, granite sarcophagus has been discovered at an excavation in Alexandria, Egypt, along with an alabaster head found in the same tomb.
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Historically, it's not hard to find examples of white shoes over decades, extending their blinding alabaster glow well beyond fashion and clothing into culture itself.
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Instead of traditional iconography—Jesus, the Cross, Jesus on the Cross—Alabaster uses more modern imagery: dried flowers, a broken crown, the Black Power salute.
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The team asked museums and galleries across Europe and in the United States if they could take samples from their alabaster artwork for chemical analysis.
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One is a tiny Babylonian Venus, her nude body carved from milky alabaster, her eyes set with rubies, a gold crescent moon in her hair.
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Given Tampa's abundant holdings in antiquities, Cronin chose fine examples from the past, including statuettes of Aphrodite in bronze and alabaster, and an Etruscan funeral urn.
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This is a sci-fi film built on people as much as spectacle, especially the alabaster-hued face of Amy Adams, who carries nearly every frame.
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Alabaster pale and swathed in a shapeless hoodie and sweatpants, Morgan (played with unnerving stillness by Anya Taylor-Joy) is 5, but resembles a young adult.
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An English alabaster statue of Charity from 1500-84, carved from a material so rare its uncut stones were locked away from thieves equals 40 cows.
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The original's incredible concoction of frescoes, marble, alabaster and gilding was exquisitely represented in the model, the centerpiece of which, of course, was the magnificent staircase.
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The sculptures' rough-hewn papier-mâché construction makes no effort to pass them off as plausible copies of their well-wrought ceramic, glass, and alabaster originals.
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I knew little about Snapchat beyond the fact that you could give yourself dog ears or the flawless, alabaster skin of a newborn baby on your selfies.
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Big Cat Green Island Reef Cruises have also uploaded a secondary video of the inquisitive whale so Migaloo fans can see alabaster mammal from every flattering angle.
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Last year, the company sold more than 10,000 Bibles and made $300,000-plus in sales; Alabaster believes sales will triple in 2019 with some upcoming wholesale deals.
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In the meantime, buzz around the company is attracting investors like Daniel Fong, an entrepreneur behind the furniture company Million Dollar Baby, who invested $100,000 in Alabaster.
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Alabaster sells Gospels, Romans, and Psalms Bibles that have been artfully laid out next to original photography (the company's Gospels of Mark and John are sold out).
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Writer Kaeleigh Forsyth tapped out notes and observations about her daily life on her phone, and her friend and artist Alabaster Pizzo illustrated them into a comic.
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Measuring more than 3,000 square feet, it is decorated in silver, alabaster, light beige and rose gold with a colossal mirrored Murano glass chandelier as a centerpiece.
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Owens's own bed — one of an edition of three — is a monumental tomblike structure of alabaster slabs which, when combined with its matching daybed, weighs two tons.
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In another of her arrangements, a mass of tissue-petaled ivory peonies is disrupted by an alabaster anthurium, its spadix jutting up from the flower's platelike surface.
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Objects include a beautiful alabaster head of a woman from Yemen, nicknamed "Miriam," and funerary portraits of the ancient residents of Palmyra that once graced their tombs.
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Robert Pattinson stars in their film as Samuel Alabaster, a pioneer and a bit of a dandy who is solely devoted to his great love, Penelope (Mia Wasikowska).
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While many came from known quarries in England and Spain, the analysis of the stone also revealed an overlooked hub for alabaster production in the western French Alps.
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In a well-lit gallery, I stared up at two majestic alabaster creatures at least 12 feet tall but looking even taller because they were set on plinths.
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Soy buena con la tecnología que me permite ser escritora, pero no soy tan buena con la movilidad, que es en lo que me ayuda Alabaster, mi pareja.
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Incluso después de que presenté mi obra, la gente se mostraba más entusiasta por la música de Alabaster y el hecho de que sirvió en las fuerzas militares.
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Aunque imaginar mi vida sin Alabaster me permitía ver que, desde luego, podía vivir sin él, también entendí, con una claridad repentina, que no quería estar sin él.
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PITTSBURGH — One was a wildly successful artist, the son of Slovakian immigrants, whose alabaster complexion and shock of white hair made him instantly recognizable on the streets of Manhattan.
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Most often she is a princess of the depths, with alabaster skin, a giant fin in place of legs and breasts covered by a mess of long, tangled hair.
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Her ambassador for this viewpoint is Jay Alabaster, an affable American journalist who lived in Japan for almost two decades and is clearly partial to Taiji and its people.
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According to Al.com, the man who captured this stunning shot, photographer Jeremy Black, spent five hours waiting to get the "the most captivating cardinal in Alabaster, Alabama" in his lens.
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That's far better ground for genuine empathy than having him be an alabaster martyr—and, for that matter, a better lesson in where true strength of character actually comes from.
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The co-founders of Alabaster became friendly with Hillsong creative director Cassandra Langton through Instagram, and the church agreed to sell the company's Bibles at its Creative Conference last year.
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Archaically smiling alabaster and limestone youths in Egyptian poses, made in Cyprus and found in a Greek sanctuary at Naukratis, give a sense of the sheer cosmopolitanism of the place.
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In its sequel, the world has ended, and Essun has escaped, only to come across Alabaster Tenring, who has a request that could seal the fate of the world forever.
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The snow, I envy it, it will vanish but it doesn't care, it's its own garden, its own cool chalky paint— kicks up an alabaster splendor then retreats without complaint.
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I'm good with the technology that allows me to be a writer, but I'm not so good at the mobility thing, which is where my sighted partner, Alabaster, comes in.
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Although imagining my life without Alabaster made me see that I could of course live without him, I also understood, with a sudden clarity, that I did not want to.
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Photos of Lakshmi, statues of Ganesh, a variety of crystals and an alabaster shell with sage and an accompanying feather all have their place along the three shelves of the altar.
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"I probably stalked that thing for two years," she says of the room-making piece that she found at an antique store in Waco and repainted in Sherwin-Williams' Alabaster white.
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The books from Alabaster, Elizabeth Angowski, an assistant professor of religion at Earlham College, points out, have extremely Goop-y vibes — in terms of both aesthetic and their Goop-esque markups.
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In the Cambodian jungle, just off the alabaster sandy stretches of Otres Beach, there is a place like Neverland, where there are no rules nor regulations and people are partying. Hard.
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For instance, Pascale Marthine Tayou's exhibition, "Beautiful," incorporates old master pieces into site-specific mixed-media installations: "Pascale's Eggs" (2014) features countless differently colored alabaster eggs framing the old master works.
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Jesus' bright, alabaster flesh is set off from the shadowy background in intense chiaroscuro, which Mr. Tuymans compounds by displaying the painting under a spotlight in an all-black circular gallery.
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In 22019, they debuted their company Alabaster, a brand that has redesigned the Bible for the Instagram generation and expects to sell $25,22019 worth of Bibles by the end of this year.
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At the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, in a 16th-century palazzo, the garden's multilevel copper basin of concrete and mosaic with labyrinths of alabaster and Istrian stone feels both stark and strangely ancient.
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Luke 22019: 37 A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume.
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Anthea Hamilton: You commissioned me to make three works: The "British Grasses" kimono, an alabaster leg and another leg chair that was part of a series I've been working on for awhile.
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Considering its size, nondescript black exterior, and the fact that it was buried with a giant alabaster head, the internet was convinced that it contained some kind of demonic being or ancient hex.
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Mr. Obama spoke emotionally of his many flights on Marine One across the Mall, past the alabaster spire of the Washington Monument and the lighted figure of Abraham Lincoln, sheltered in his memorial.
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These included an "ancient Egyptian" alabaster statue of a princess that was bought in 2003 by the Bolton Museum in northern England in 2003 for 440,000 pounds, or about $700,000 at the time.
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And it has the post-humans to match: Specifically Major Mira Killian (Johansson), a scientific marvel who emerges from a pool of alabaster goo like a white-chocolate Cadbury crème egg, unblinking and sublime.
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It includes a creamy, black pencil eyeliner; a high-shine, clear lip gloss; a pale-pink nail polish; and — here's what we're most excited for — one Haloscope highlighter in an exclusive new alabaster shade.
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Google's been wanting to get into wearable tech for years said Sonny Vu, founder of investment firm Alabaster who formerly served as a president and CTO of Fossil before it was acquired by Google.
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The bulbs of his La Religieuse (The Nun) floor and table lamps are shaded by shards of alabaster that are both Cubistic and wimplelike, held together by bits of welded iron, courtesy of Dalbet.
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In a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Kloppmann and a team of art historians, geologists and geochemists traced the origins of more than 60 alabaster statue.
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"I'm a bit of a freak!" she said with a laugh, modeling an alabaster knit sweater and gathered mid-length skirt of her own design, her long dark hair tumbling over her slender frame.
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Hidden away in three large rooms in one of the aristocratic family's many Roman properties, the collection of over 600 marble, bronze and alabaster statues and reliefs has not been seen by outsiders for decades.
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Take one memorable shot that takes place during Henry's coronation: The camera sensuously pans up Chalamet's alabaster back as he is anointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, revealing shoulder blades that looked carved from stone.
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Mr. Castile, a school cafeteria manager, has the noble head of a Greek bronze, complete with a jawline beard and an eye whose flat whites the Greeks would have made from silver or alabaster inlay.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads At the ancient site of Hatnub, a quarry in the eastern Egyptian desert not far from Faiyum, archaeologists have recently discovered a sled ramp system used to transport alabaster blocks.
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They are also home to drawings that depicts lengths of landscape, whether it's the New York skyline or the medieval towers of San Gimignano, which are then translated to alabaster room screens in the middle gallery.
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Yet another Yemen work nearby, a near-abstract alabaster head of a woman with enormous eyes and a small, sweet smile (she was affectionately nicknamed Miriam by the archaeologists who found her), could not look more different.
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The last occurs on an especially beautiful pair of lidded alabaster vases; the matte laurel branches — bent to form handles — are so true to life they should rustle; they also have the appealing nonchalance of the poppies.
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Elsewhere, some obviousness creeps in, as with an anti-monument formed by a statue atop a cast-aluminum laundry basket standing in for a disintegrating globe, despite the appeal of the doll-like, carved-alabaster statue itself.
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The dreamy swirls of alabaster wind, golden orbs, and deep blue skies make it truly one-of-a-kind, but that doesn't mean there aren't hundreds of college kids hanging posters of the piece in their dorm rooms.
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You're forcing everyone from the ankle bone down to, like, be reminiscent of cold marble, alabaster stone and then above the ankle bone they're just like someone's dad at, like, a farmer's market wearing socks with their sandals.
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A monument of pagan majesty, in her strapless gown, she is an alabaster bust endowed with the breath of life; more blasphemous still, she drips water onto the head of her devotee, a hangdog reporter named Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni).
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I insist on the things not being made out of limestone or alabaster, but being made out of materials that are urgent and itinerant, that will more or less be the effigy or the apparition of the thing that's been lost.
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The book highlights everyday spaces with the most unexpected details: Planes of alabaster, grandiose panels of tufted leather and trompe l'oeil stained glass all feature alongside a myriad of richly hued marbles from across Italy framed in bronze, plaster and terrazzo.
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Every surface is crammed with decorative eggs — 536 of them, by her grandchildren's last count — that she began collecting after her stepfather presented her with an alabaster one as a worry bead for her right hand when she first put down the cigarettes.
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She chiseled a found block of opalescent, flesh-toned alabaster into a torso, mounting it on a makeshift wooden pedestal and naming it "Torso found in Today's Downtown Beirut" (1988) to immortalize the fallen bodies and abandoned ancient sites of the city.
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At their studio, they maintain a library of deluxe materials such as malachite, lapis and agate tiles for countertops; gold leaf for faux wall finishes; and lighting made from onyx and alabaster — elements that helped bridge Ms. Van Parys's path to jewelry making.
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He fashioned the bases and capitals for ancient columns of exquisitely colored and textured porphyry excavated in Rome; the foliate mounts for vases of granite or alabaster; and the bases, trim and other additions that made already breathtaking Chinese ceramics even more extraordinary.
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This building is above a large shaft that leads down to several burial chambers holding mummies , sarcophagi, alabaster vessels (used to hold the organs of the deceased) and shabti figurines — the Egyptians believed these figures could act as servants for the deceased in the afterlife.
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It made sense for Rakowitz to site this particular room here, because the nearby Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA) owns one of the majestic ninth-century alabaster reliefs that Western adventurers looted from the Assyrian palace long before Isis dealt it its final blow in 2015.
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He has hangers-on and real coaches and everywhere he goes, people whisper "something something potential something something champ one day" ... Huffman's ability to absorb punishment and remain a simple sweet man is almost as phenomenologically powerful as Koch at his best, predatory and sculpted from alabaster.
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She set a welded-steel rail right down the middle of her show "Pledge," at Company Gallery, and balanced a handful of precarious little sculptures on it: a fire extinguisher, a penis, a dog's paw, a stylized candle, and others, all carved from Spanish blue alabaster.
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LONDON — With her jet-black hair, alabaster skin and pale green eyes, Susie Cave's darkly drawn beauty has bewitched designers (Azzedine Alaïa and Yves Saint Laurent), and photographers (Helmut Newton, David Bailey and Steven Meisel) — not to mention her husband, the Australian rock star Nick Cave.
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Clicking and dragging your mouse lets you examine the details in each room in 360˚, albeit from one fixed perspective; ScanLAB has also scanned and digitized select objects on display, from the famed alabaster sarcophagus of King Seti to cork and plaster models of the ancient Temple of Vesta.
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"They remind me of a time, in the '80s and '90s, when Barcelona was a little cooler," he said of a pair of flame-shaped alabaster lamps that the lighting manufacturer Santa & Cole originally made for Zeleste, an iconic bar in the city that his parents once loved.
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The sunset inspired paint chip is on the opposite side of the color wheel from last year's pick of Oceanside, a lush blue-green, and far bolder than the two year's before that, which saw the paint company name Poised Taupe, aka greige (2016) and Alabaster, an off-white (2015).
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For instance, a set of Alabaster jars on display alludes to a certain Sabbath day described in the Gospels of Luke, when Mary Magdalene (or Mary of Bethany, depending on the source) anoints the feet of Jesus with an oil kept in what would have been the same type of jar.
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The mold was made from a scan of the hindquarters of a colossal alabaster statue that once stood in the ancient Assyrian capital of Nimrud: a winged lion with a man's gently smiling face, dating from the ninth century B.C. Factum was reconstructing the creature, an Assyrian deity, in sections.
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Instead of an alabaster cave in Santorini, or a swank penthouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side, or a Beverly Hills estate dripping with intrigue, the most visited Airbnb in the world is a squat cabin with a bulbous, mushroom-shaped roof in the sleepy Northern Californian coastal town of Aptos.
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Frouwkje and Stéphane Pagani and their team of 10 get alabaster from Italy and rock crystal from Brazil, and they combine these and other stones with bronze and wood to produce light fixtures that have ended up at the Obama White House and the just-opened Tavern by WS in Hudson Yards.
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Mr. Rondinone's gallery-filling "Vocabulary of Solitude" — which comprises 45 life-size, foam-white clown figures in loud boiler suits and brightly colored ruffs, thinking, sleeping or brooding on the floor — will be complemented by Mr. Tayou's constellations of wall-mounted alabaster eggs ("Pascale's eggs") and tall columns of Arabic pots ("Colonnes Pascale").
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Inside the gallery the opulence was visually stunning, a red carpet led guests up a flight of alabaster marble stairs, where wai staff, dressed in white jackets, shirts and black ties, served sparkling water, champagne and skewers of organic beef on beds of grass to symbolize the cows were only vegan-fed.
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In the 1516 edition, Ariosto gives a conventionally idealized description of the nude Angelica, envisioned as "a statue fashioned of alabaster or some other lustrous marble," with "her unripe apple-breasts, and her golden hair winnowed by the wind" — very much like a graceful "Venus pudica" by Botticelli and studio, shown earlier in the exhibition.
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Slick moss and mud plus a light rain made the footing tricky, but I pressed on until I'd reached a slightly elevated vantage point and could take in the breathtaking panorama: the lush greenness of this "sceptered isle," as Shakespeare once wrote, broken by alabaster bluffs against a blue backdrop of sea and sky.
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The basics are, admittedly, a little daunting to the newcomer: an orogene (read: magician) named Essun has found refuge from the world's disasters, and her former mentor and lover, Alabaster, is slowly turning to stone as a result of drawing power from strange constructs known as Obelisks, as he tries to stop the world's cycles of destruction.
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The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has dated the artifact to the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty, the Greek royal family that reigned over Egypt for about three centuries following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. The sarcophagus is unmarked, although a badly eroded alabaster bust found nearby might be a likeness of its occupant.
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To millions of women (and men) who wore her jeans, blouses, scarves, shoes, jewelry and perfumes, who saw her alabaster face, jet-black hair and slim figure in magazines, and who watched her move across a television screen and proclaim that her svelte jeans "really hug your derrière," Ms. Vanderbilt was an alluring, faintly naughty fashion diva in the 1970s.
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Having been offered a small stand in the Showcase sidebar section of Tefaf Maastricht last year, Kallos is this year making its debut as a full-fledged exhibitor and will be showing items including a marble portrait head of the Roman Emperor Hadrian and an Egyptian alabaster canopic jar that once contained the organs of a high-ranking priest, removed during mummification.
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Eat I first happened upon it one morning, while flipping through the Time Life Foods of the World book ''Classic French Cooking'': a photograph of an alabaster edible dome, mosaicked in carrots and turnips, with molding of green beans and English peas, its base edged by slabs of bacon and sausage and glazed tiny onions, looking for all the world like a frosted vegetable cake.
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And if not, there are plenty of other sources out there to make the place you lay your head feel inferior: interior design websites like Houzz; home improvement blogs with doe-eyed fraternal twins plucked straight from the set of Gattaca; Pinteresters who manipulate digital shots of their bathrooms in post-edit to achieve a soft, inviting alabaster seldom found in nature and even more rarely in suburban powder rooms.
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The ancient Egyptians thought baldness was caused by a curse from the gods, which meant the Rogaine of the day was swallowing a mixture of onions, honey, iron, lead and alabaster, and reciting a prayer to the sun god Ra. These days, the causes are understood to be mostly hereditary, and a new study published in Nature Communications demonstrates just how many genetic underpinnings might lead to male-pattern baldness.
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Displayed on a series of alabaster mannequins are the red carpet dazzlers that attest to her relevance: the cabbage rose-patterned gown worn by Lucy Liu at the 2013 Golden Globes; the red and black bustled faille Taylor Swift wore to the same event the following year; and the blush-tone slip of a dress, its hemline pooling on the floor, that Lady Gaga wore at the 2016 Producers Guild of America Awards.
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