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Teammates can provide covering fire while one person collects crests, but moving in a group also makes it easier to reach allied crests before the enemy does.
More record crests are predicted downstream, including in Pendleton, Arkansas.
Crests of the flooding are projected from Sunday to Tuesday.
They even account for dips and crests in the road.
The performance climaxes, then slinks on, crests again and continues.
Nine of Grafton's 20 highest crests have occurred since 2008.
Kill enemies, collect their dropped crests to earn your team points.
Even after a river crests, flooding can still be a problem.
With more crests coming, residents pile sandbags, watch levees and wait.
Grab crests dropped by allies to block the enemy team from scoring.
He was taken by their red crests, unusual posture and loping flights.
A wildfire crests a low, scrubby mountain in Viotia, in central Greece.
The crests that follow are pushing against higher water, slowing everything down.
And magic crests and shapeshifting mages aside, the historical influences are ample.
Courtiers would wear or hold these crests at enthronements, legal proceedings, funerals.
If you pick up crests from a player you killed, you get points.
Progressives may feel especially emboldened if a blue wave crests across the country.
Only when that power crests will they engage and not a moment sooner.
Beneath my feet the manure bubbled and gurgled, forming foamy peaks and crests.
She can watch as the storm crests over the shoreline of Arcadia Bay.
All-time record crests are predicted from Fort Smith southward to near Little Rock.
Instead, it resembled the head crests of a group of duckbilled dinosaurs called hadrosaurs.
Many scientists think hadrosaurs also used their crests to communicate vocally with one another.
"Hamilton," the acclaimed Broadway musical, after all, crests with a fatal gunfight between statesmen.
Crests are like logos for soccer federations, and they are treated reverentially by soccer enthusiasts.
The books will bear the house colors and crests of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin.
The Ark—which you first glimpse as the bus crests a hill—is genuinely impressive.
A low glass ceiling our lips, noses, palms, nipples, navels, and iliac crests pressed against.
And that's not merely a function of the crests and dips that every president encounters.
Pleasant Valley, which sits along the Mississippi River, floods every time the river crests, Ortega said.
In some cases, the rivers beat their previous record crests by several feet, rather than inches.
Torrential rains in Louisiana and southern Mississippi have caused area rivers to rise toward historic crests.
When a player gets killed, they drop crests, which can then be picked up by anyone.
The wave crests, and things return to normal, or at least some new version of it.
The company's logo dominates both teams' crests and jerseys, and its name adorns both teams' stadiums.
He added that the Missouri River will see several more major flood crests over the next week.
If a Democratic wave crests over the Midwest this year, even Ohio and Kansas are in play.
"Oh, here it goes!" a man shouts, as brilliantly sparkling foam crests the lip of the cylinders.
There were black and white striped shirtdresses, denim printed with trompe l'oeil patches, and faux family crests.
It starts with the general political climate and Trump's approval rating, which never crests 45 percent. Sad!
Klinsmann's teams do just about what you would expect, given the crests on the front of their shirts.
Blood pressure peaks around noon; physical co-ordination crests in midafternoon; and muscles are strongest at around 5pm.
High winds at sea can generate crests of 28500 feet or more, though, several times the average wave.
Bleached pelvic crests and the knobby ends of shins poked up from the humus alongside an unbroken wishbone.
A wildfire crests over a ridge, threatening a home, bottom right, Monday, July 30, 2018, in Lakeport, Calif.
From the crests of its highest peaks to the Malibu shore, you take in a sweep of devastation.
In the morning, the sun crests behind the towers of downtown San Francisco, illuminating the city&aposs skyline.
Once the river crests Monday, it will take the water three to four days to go down significantly.
Only 15 tsesah crests still exist worldwide, and an American museum has never assembled so many at once.
In "The Face of Dynasty: Royal Crests From Western Cameroon," you'll find a quartet of massive wooden crowns, known as tsesah crests, that served as avatars of kingship among the dozens of small monarchies of the Bamileke people in the grasslands of northwest Cameroon, near the contemporary border with Nigeria.
They had parrot-like heads and toothless beaks, and some sported head crests, much like  modern cassowary birds do .
Black Milk Clothing's Hogwarts collection features clothing adorned with school crests, lightning bolts and signs of the Deathly Hallows.
The Great Flood of 1993 destroyed towns across nine states and set record-high crests in nearly 100 locations.
It crests right when you need it to, a smile amidst cosmic chaos, euphoria right when you needed it.
It's very long and very '70s, with some real big blow-dries going on and huge crests and things.
Add to that the complication of how flood crests along the Mississippi move at different speeds depending on conditions.
A bearded man pointed out how the shadows through the trees had softened, turning into gentle half-moon crests.
Some new crests also emerged just before lunchtime as more people were using their home connections during the day.
Its fearsome face included crests that extended up from horns in front of its eyes down to the nose.
The final stages of the ascent, where the mountains attenuate into their crests and peaks, are always the hardest.
Finished in Barnato Green, it is fitted with walnut burr-veneered picnic tables and waist rails with inlaid royal crests.
The rainfall totals that resulted from this storm are extraordinary, and they caused record crests on nearly a dozen rivers.
It's a beautiful, chord-forward song about self-love and finding happiness that crests into an explosion of horn melodies.
Like the spatulas, the Harry Potter-themed aprons comes in the Hogwarts house colors and also feature the houses' crests.
As it opens, a subdued, ominous bass motif stirs and slowly crests, breaking into fractured brassy fanfares and choral proclamations.
These included a series of six paintings on wood mysteriously combining brilliantly colored mandorlas with heraldic crests of Italian towns.
Meanwhile, Lex, at the HSAC 's helm, was bringing us in on a shallow angle, weaving through crests and troughs.
Satanic fury returns and crests into a shattering climax that Mr. Noseda drove to a pitch of blazing, demonic fervor.
The sexual energy crests, but more rewarding is some sense of the Flannery of old returning: audacious, confident, smart, seductive.
Though the females are slightly less dazzling, their thick bills, sharply defined crests and other highlights are still bright red.
Now, workers are racing against rising flood waters to shore up the city's main levee system before the river crests.
Otherwise they replicated the seafaring of ancient mariners during a 953-day crossing, braving powerful gales and 30-foot crests.
As Pluto's climate changed over time, this erosion bit away at these structures, forging them into dramatic crests and sharp divides.
She has tons of items on Etsy but we particularly love the house crests and newsprints in the Harry Potter store.
This dinosaur also had a solid bony crest resembling a humped nose, but most duck-billed dinosaurs had hollow bony crests.
This is why people continue to amble to the crests of California, in search of this dreamscape, of a utopian kinship.
Even as the stock market crests to record highs, it has notched few daily moves of more than 1 per cent.
Both water waves and light waves consist of rippling crests and troughs, and they obey many of the same mathematical equations.
Based on recordings from witnesses, Weener also estimated that waves were around 4 feet, with a possibility of 6-foot crests.
Here, bare limestone crests shade pockets of snow, and scree slopes run down to glacier-carved lakes and wildflower-filled meadows.
A Haida artist tattooed clan crests on the chests and arms of willing actors in the traditional stick-and-poke fashion.
The rest of the state could be daunting, with its successive mountain chains rising like crests on a flash-frozen ocean.
In Louisiana, where crests at some points along the river are not expected until mid-January, officials are checking levees daily.
The wind now brushed the crests from the waves and it filled the sail, blew a fine spray into the boat.
Intricately mimicking the action of waves and the behavior of sea life, the ensemble swells and crests, provoking more admiration than delight.
Might it also be fitting that the U.S. dollar crests just as the universally expected and eagerly awaited Fed rate hike arrives?
There are house crests, Marauders references, a Hogwarts crest, and a simple Hogwarts letter and sweet quote if you'd rather avoid sequins.
I think about that every time an orc I've wounded or humiliated crests a hill, stares me down, and threatens my life.
A rolling wave crests across three separate panels of a monochromatic triptych, carrying a boatful of refugees as they careen over water.
Dr. Weiss and her colleagues found that high levels of carbon dioxide caused water fleas to make smaller crests and shorter spikes.
It crests the hill, majestic and barely clinging to the CGI afforded to it, before charging at Jackson in a snorting rage.
By analyzing the shearing crests on the molar, they determined the species was at least a part-time folivore, or leaf-eater.
To the Yurok and other tribes, the regalia, resplendent with abalone and the scarlet crests of woodpeckers, are a dazzling life force.
For generations, prominent French families have also turned to Arthus-Bertrand for engraved family crests, signet rings and gifts on milestone dates.
They have received 20 to 30 patients a day so far, he said, but expect to be busier as the river crests.
Record crests for the river have already been set in Ponca City, Oklahoma, and in Van Buren, Morrilton and Toad Suck in Arkansas.
In tactical terms the rules of Supremacy encourage close-quarters combat, since you want to be close to those crests when they drop.
Inscribers would include bars of music, song lyrics, illustrations, crests, mottos — the rough equivalent, perhaps, of multimedia elements like YouTube links and photos.
Very few animals have brains that feature these troughs and crests, a select group that includes humans, some primates, dolphins, elephants, and pigs.
For home connections, you'd see crests in the evening when millions of people snuggled up to watch their choice of streaming entertainment service.
Nabokov didn't refer to Lolita's hips, but her "iliac crests"; Tallent prefers "scapulae" to shoulder blades, "sclera" to the whites of the eyes.
The Comite River near Baton Rouge and Amite River near Denham Springs, both in Louisiana, were predicted to set record crests over the weekend.
The river is expected to reach a record height on Tuesday when it crests at about 62 feet, according to the National Weather Service.
The Tulsa region has been especially hard hit by flooding on Tuesday, with many local rivers headed for record crests, and water rescues underway.
At the time, the HP collection consisted of spatulas and aprons, each one emblazoned with the colors, mascots, and crests of Hogwarts' four houses.
The boat still rocks gently front to back as it crests and descends each wave, but the violence of a moment ago is gone.
These screen-printed pillowcases read: "He's a keeper" and "She's a catch," but the seller also has everything from Dumbledore quotes to house crests.
As the final chord crests and ebbs, they dart their eyes at one another and grin, the sound still surprising after so many repetitions.
There is bipartisan consensus, including from Mr. Cruz, that Mr. O'Rourke could actually prevail in November — maybe — if the blue wave crests just so.
"They have a lightly constructed, narrow skull with horns or crests on their skull roof, and relatively robust forelimbs with three fingers," Hattori said.
Over 150 millions years, they evolved from small flying reptiles to large and diverse species that had elaborate crests and specialized teeth to crush seashells.
Four years ago, the pressure to produce her first podium finish for her native Hungary, whose obsession with water crests every Olympic summer, crushed Hosszu.
"There is a community of us that has grown up in the last 10 to 15 years," especially as the #MeToo movement crests, she said.
The catch is that both teams can see any loose crests — whether they belond to a friend or a foe — and both teams can collect them.
You can also pick up crests that drop from your own killed teammates to take your enemy's points, which means the game encourages close-range kills.
The sound rises from Bay Ridge's Beit Al-Maqdis mosque, a white-and-green building whose stubby minaret barely crests the high walls of abutting warehouses.
This telegraphed adjustment increases demand for buying and selling stocks, resulting in additional trading volume, which crests right before the market close on the fourth Friday.
It requires reversing the phases of the waves, turning crests into troughs, and so forth, an operation too complex for nature to accomplish on its own.
But if a blue wave crests higher than expected, it could lift Democrats in states that would be all but lost in a more neutral environment.
The sun crests over this verdant ocean every morning, and as the light hits the leaves, the rainforest takes its first steamy breath of the day.
Martens, having adapted to these conditions, rely on the open crests to travel in search of food and mates, while building their dens in shadier, cooler thickets.
Because the Kenyan fossil does not have these crests, Dr Kappelman and his colleagues believe it was much more likely to have fed on fruits and seeds.
As our boat crests around the craggy southeastern shore of Block Island, past cliffs and harbors dotted with picturesque New England homes, the turbines recede from view.
A mechanism raises and lowers the light, the pictographs slowly crawling up the height of the wall as if fleeing a flood that eventually crests and recedes.
And on the crests of a renewed wave of protest culture, an audacious self-taught artist spitting blood with her synthesizers might be just who we need.
Behind it the emerald-green pasture rises to two dramatic crests that look like waves, but they're rolling with streaky, bluish-white sky instead of ocean foam.
They put out suggestions for possible new crests, worked closely with the club's in-house designers, and pushed for a professional typographer to be hired, Norris said.
Because hadrosaur crests "grow and change shape as the animal grows up," they can be used to determine whether the specimen was an adult, said Freedman Fowler.
Copious wall texts, testimony from a Cameroonian artist whose ancestors carved them, and anthropological photographs all hint at how these crests might have embodied law and order.
Slow-burning electronic percussion crests into several waves of spiraling guitar leads over the song's runtime, with vocalist Francis Hooper's falsetto guiding the way through the churning arrangement.
They ponder faith, pleasure, exile and belonging; they traverse hymns, neo-soul, South African pop and electronic dance music, and Nakhane's voice crests in a vibrant, androgynous falsetto.
The effort is part of a hunt for low-frequency gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime like those recently discovered by LIGO but with more time between the crests.
Hurricane-force winds are thought to begin at about 75 mph, said Weener, who also estimated waves rose to around 4 feet, with a possibility of 6-foot crests.
The artist's repeated crooning of an eight-bar minor-key melody, which crests on a major chord before looping back to its beginning, remains modest in its expressive range.
Dia:Beacon is wisely catching this wave as it crests by showing several of his pieces, including beveled-edge paintings and his drape paintings, which are suspended from the ceiling.
Subsequent generations have a variety of one-and-a-half humps: a single hump with two crests; two clearly articulated small humps; or one large and one small hump.
The latest: Downriver Arkansas communities were preparing Sunday for record-breaking crests, per AP. Flooding caused police to close multiple roads in North Little Rock Sunday night, according to KATV.
Lauren did not introduce the world to a new style of clothing—navy blazers, school crests, flannels, saddle shoes, and polo shirts were all Wasp staples long before his time.
Medieval studies scholars of my acquaintance have been noting particular far right tropes on Facebook and Twitter, pointing out how they like to design little "heraldic" crests for their organizations.
If I could write sonnets, I would write one about Ms. Hahn, whose timing — she finds depths in that little pause before a joke crests — can turn laughs into howls.
These sentries between this world and the next wear ornate body armor — frond-shaped helmet crests and flaming epaulets — and raise their legs to stomp on ill-fated evil ghouls.
The team reasoned that these animals might have relied more on feather displays for sexual signalling, rather than investing energy in frills, crests, or horns observed in their larger relatives.
But these crests had legal and diplomatic significance as well as aesthetic appeal, and their anonymous African creators had a political understanding of art not so far from our own.
From the hill crests, on a clear day, you can see the Pyrénées, and in summer the air is filled with the smell of hay, wild grasses and damp earth.
Oviraptoridae (not to be confused with oviraptors—that's a different kind of dino) are known for their toothless, parrot-like beaks, and in some cases, elaborate head crests known as casques.
"Dinosaurs weren't shy about sexual signaling, all those bells and whistles, horns, crests, and frills, and yet we just haven't had a reliable way to tell males from females," she continued.
In addition to their impressive size, dilophosaurus were known for a pair of cranial crests and a notch behind the first row of teeth, giving the beasts a crocodile-like appearance.
"This isn't over," said David Roth, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center, adding the Missouri River will see several more major flood crests over the next week.
The writing on it crests to half the jar's height, tall stems and sharp corners of Arabic, a language that, although she grew up in Libya and Lebanon, she cannot read.
Now, new research published on Tuesday in Nature Communications identifies a virtually unexplored correlation between theropod body mass and the presence of flashy cranial "ornaments," such as crests, knobs, or horns.
One course of action is to get rid of buildings and statues and crests named after slaveholders and white supremacists, because honoring those people has no place at a modern university.
Rather, it's a book about crests and troughs, highs and comedowns, joys and brutalities — about how easily our lives are wrecked, but also how powerfully we're able to survive and rebuild.
The road crests just before it intersects Boulevard, at a traffic light that always seems to glow red, as if to allow motorists a minute to savor the panorama before them.
What might it mean for a visitor to the Met, perhaps young, perhaps unaware of the depths of African influence on global modernism, to discover these crests for the first time?
The Harry Potter for PBteen collection models after the magic school's common rooms, featuring bedding, throws, and cushions bearing the crests and colors of the four houses: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff.
But its design is slightly sleeker and more sophisticated than its counterparts: the edge of the Earth crests just over the borders of each video, creating a floating sensation for the viewer.
When those reflected waves interact with each other in just the right way, the troughs and crests cancel each other out, and you can levitate various small objects, like insects or fish.
Officials in Hamburg, Iowa, worked quickly to add a temporary five-feet-tall levee to the town's current levee system before the Missouri River crests by Sunday or Monday, as they expect.
He decided to copy many of the images — mostly clan crests — from a pole that was built in 1820 and was at one time attached to a chief's long house in Hiellen.
Time in Trumpworld seems to slow as huge news story after huge news story forms, crests, crashes and recedes -- only to be followed by an even bigger one right on its heels.
A century later, it remains a throwback to the early glamour days of skyscraper living: a dozen brick towers fancifully decorated with half-timbered lobbies, stone crests and other mock-Tudor details.
The pterosaur fossils in question, found in northwestern China, belong to a species called Hamipterus tianshanensis: they had a wingspan of up to 11 feet, head crests, and long teeth to catch fish.
Imagine them sloshing in the column like water waves; as an atom wave ripples up the column and back down, it overlaps with itself to create an interference pattern of crests and troughs.
This wave -- now known as the "Radcliffe Wave" for the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study -- extends in crests that are 33 light-years both above and below the middle of our galaxy's disk.
PASSANT is also a heraldic term, referring to that peculiar stance you sometimes see lions or dragons taking, on shields and crests and such, where one paw is raised dramatically in pre-pounce.
As the smaller creeks and streams brought more and more water into rivers making their slow march to the Atlantic, the crests continued to climb, overflowing river banks and compromising dams and flood defenses.
While classic kit designs, stadium murals and commemorative statuary are all obvious examples of artistry from the world of football, perhaps the most underappreciated art comes in the form of club badges and crests.
The big surprise comes in the last seven minutes of the nearly 50-minute work: slow, powerful and direct, growing without a steady pulse until it crests with ensemble-wide chords and cymbal crashes.
New organizational branding On Day one, the Space Force has to be ready to rebrand it offices, buildings and bases (if any) with logos, crests and signage that reflects the new Space Force identity.
A true reckoning with the glory of these crests can only take place against the backdrop of their global histories, from Africa to Europe and America, from the royal court to the white cube.
"The river will have several more major crests through next week," he said, not counting the numerous tributaries that feed into the Missouri up and down the Midwest and will likely inundate communities into next month.
With so many football clubs originally formed as works teams or created to serve a town with some speciality in manufacturing, there are crests up and down the country which feature factories, chimneys, dockyards and mines.
In the three 19th-century crests, the brows are carefully incised with rolling waves, in the case of the Menil's example; interlocking diamonds in the Smithsonian's; and a modified checkerboard pattern in the privately owned specimen.
In these works, I get the pomp and circumstance of war and conquest: the varicolored heraldry on fully armored knights relayed across shields, crests, and banners, and the visual pageantry of ancient wooden galleys' semaphoric displays.
He's 1.73′ 8″, with glasses and thinning brown hair, and he has a road map of scars across his body, mostly hidden beneath a T-shirt bearing the partial crests of Batman, Green Lantern, Flash, and Superman.
Best described as teeth that have crests running between their cusps, bilophodont molars are found in all members of the old world monkey family and play a pivotal part in helping these animals to chew leaves efficiently.
Health care workers will be called upon to be the heroes working the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic as it crests in the U.S. In doing so they should not be subjected to undue risk.
Consumer investing has become passé as exits disappear and the mobile wave crests (last year was the first year B2B investing overtook consumer investing in modern memory), forcing everyone to chase the same set of SaaS companies.
Set a few steps outside the hotel's lodge, an elevated pinewood and glass cabin — Miramonti's forest sauna — allows guests to enjoy Finnish heat while surveying the surrounding copse of firs and the mountain crests in the distance.
The Blackwater refuge in Maryland has treated me to the stirring sight of hundreds of wintering tundra swans, while in New Mexico, I glimpsed the comical crests of my first-ever scaled quail at the Bitter Lake refuge.
Besides their starting stats, each character has a number of truly unique attributes, including passive abilities, hidden potentials for skills may not obviously be good at, and the mysterious magical crests that are central to the game's story.
"To an outsider, the science of osteology may seem like reading tea leaves, but these authors are experts and systematically account for the shape of ridges, crests, and depressions on the bones," he told Gizmodo in an email.
Each chapter starts with a full-page panel that looks like an illuminated manuscript, with borders full of scrollwork, bunnies, dragons, jousters and heraldic crests, but the chapters themselves unfold in straightforward, artistically uncluttered, easy-to-follow style.
After I interviewed Bacon at her house the day before, I put my shoes back on and walked downhill toward the ocean, past sage clusters and foamy crests of bougainvillea and signs for a lost cat named India.
The central bank is now likely to stay the course and keep funding costs stable until inflation crests, anticipated in or around April, according to three people who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Relievers have to work in high-leverage situations, on an elevated stage that puts them at the center of an audience, and rides waves and crests of calm lulls and heavy tension spurred on by thousands of stomping feet.
WASHINGTON — The new front lines of the coronavirus pandemic are emergency rooms, where hospitals are desperately readying for repeats of scenes of overwhelmed wards in Wuhan, China, Milan, and Tehran, as the outbreak crests this month in the USA.
And though the cast — which also briefly includes Nolan James Tierce, an actor with Down syndrome, as Daniel — surfs the crests ably, only Ms. Kelly creates from the thin materials a deep character, and a devastating one at that.
It is critical that these funds are allocated quickly, because after storms like Dorian, living coral heads, the building blocks of these walls, will have been broken off reef crests and will be lying on the floors of lagoons.
A teaser trailer released by HBO on Thursday shows the crests of the warring families crumbling to ash, with voices of key characters heard speaking phrases from past seasons in a timeline of events that have led to the battle.
These two-legged, flightless animals were close relatives of birds; their skulls tapered off into sharp parrot-like beaks with no teeth and many of them sported ornamented cranial crests that paleontologists think could have been used as sexual displays.
The children who died in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in Lahore on Sunday would have been riding those familiar crests of feeling: the wild joy of being high up or spun around mixing suddenly, grotesquely with the grim finality of death.
Striding down a London street and staring down the camera, Ms. May gathers her own Women's March behind her as her righteousness crests: a determinedly inclusive group, some holding signs ("Women's Rights = Human Rights") and others wearing pink pussy hats.
Hong Kong is also close to Fujian province, a coastal region famous for its carving industry, where many illegal wildlife products — rhinoceros horn, helmeted hornbill crests, rosewood — are turned into high-end jewelry, knickknacks and statuary for the Chinese market.
The New Glenn crests to 313 feet tall in its three-stage version—just below the world's tallest rocket the 363-foot Saturn V. Although it's the tallest (except for the now-defunct Saturn V) it won't necessarily be the most powerful.
On his most recent EP, Bleeding Bull, Jimmy crests through a slide of auto-tune over increasingly off-kilter production that varies between harsh synth tones and harp strings courtesy of producers Arthur McArthur and longtime collaborator and currently in-demand Murda Beatz.
That might sound clinical, yet something miraculous happens: the scene becomes more emotionally draining, not less, because of the bright sunshine that gilds the crests of the menacing waves, and because of the Cleo-like calmness with which Cuarón bears witness to peril.
Housed in industrial yellow casings and mounted atop two enormous stainless steel cylinders that gleam in the midday sun, the fans begin to spill a light froth, as though the crests of waves off Lake Michigan are being fed through their blades.
Driving outside of the park near sunset, Mr. Soto pointed out Southern caracaras, also called carrion hawks — imposing, vaguely menacing birds of prey with black crests, scarlet faces and sleek, black-and-gray feathers — perched on a dozen fence posts along the road.
Many European clubs started out as just that, and so the features that adorned their crests — coats of arms and animals, weapons and tools, local landmarks and significant dates — often had little to do with concepts like revenue generation and marketing appeal.
Inspired by a poem about a woman walking with the man she loves in a cold, moonlit forest, guiltily confessing that she is pregnant with another man's child, the composition surges and crests, pushing late-Romantic musical language toward a breaking point.
Her name (for it is a woman, not a man) is Freya Wyley, and she's the protagonist of Anthony Quinn's novel about a friendship that will ride the crests of the liberating postwar era, reaching perilous heights and depths, and occasionally risking inundation.
By the end of that same poem, the poet has turned to the F. T. Marinetti-like language of machine, war, and power: Listen to the sound of the gun, Gears, belt Roaring steamer Shadows ringing fishhooks while running Women and their ornamental crests.
The three towns of Camden, Rockland, and Rockport have in common with all of coastal Maine the pristine old shore rock faces and hearty pines, the nonthreatening crests of worn-down mountain nubs, and economies that thrive on get-away-from-it-all riches.
More than 100 items were stolen in a raid on the Green Vault in the Royal Palace, including jeweled agate figures, goblets made out of gilded ostrich eggs, a sword inlaid with almost 800 diamonds and several brooches, crests, epaulettes and other fancy baubles.
And I will always be charmed by the swooping, rococo look of the back-of-the-soup-spoon method, where the cowlicks and crests of meringue left behind by twisting the spoon away turn black just at the tips when run swiftly under the broiler.
Many of Soane's pieces are also technically complex, including the Ripple console, which resembles folds of gently undulating fabric, and the Venus chair, the back of which crests into petal-like scallops, requiring multiple applications of naked flame and water to achieve a fluidity of form.
The crests of the Medici pope figure prominently in what remains of the border tapestries, and a multitude of other stories is told in gold and silver thread at the bases, as if in relief, while along the vertical sides figures represent the hours and seasons.
But for New Orleans, mild Barry was a wake-up call, exposing a new vulnerability for a low-lying city: the possibility that the vast Mississippi—still swollen in July, months after it typically crests—could be pushed over its banks by the surge a tropical storm often brings.
Major is part of a government security outfit, Section 9, which requires her to launch herself from the crests of high buildings, crash exquisitely through windows, slaughter enemies of the state by the roomful, and turn invisible at will, as if she had stolen a cloak from Harry Potter.
It was 1907, and he'd docked at Waikiki Beach in Honolulu during a sailing trip from San Francisco when he spotted them: "One after another they come, a mile long, with smoking crests, the white battalions of the infinite army of the sea," he wrote in a magazine essay published later that year.
From the golden Premier League badge that adorns the sleeves of the reigning champions Leicester City to the constellations of stars stitched above the crests of some clubs, there are no shortage of subtle reminders dotted across English soccer to commemorate successes rooted in the past — provided one knows where to look.
" The poem starts to conflate its own colors with the names of painters' dyes ("Last streaks of sunset: alizarin") and crests with an anecdote about "the old art historian" who told Hass to pick up a brush and paint "small rectangular daubs so that they shimmer"—or else to "shut up about Cézanne.
He practices two methods of hand engraving: surface, in which simple lines or crosshatch patterns that look like shading are worked into the metal to create the appearance of depth, or deep seal, a traditional technique for engraving family crests or monograms that allow the finished piece to be used as a wax seal.
These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met's recent acquisition of an 223th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns.
These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met's recent acquisition of an 18th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths, and brows incised with involute geometric patterns.
These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met's recent acquisition of an 18th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns.
These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met's recent acquisition of an 27710th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths, and brows incised with involute geometric patterns.
These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met's recent acquisition of an 2215th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns.
These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met's recent acquisition of an 599th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns.
These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met's recent acquisition of an 2023th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns.
The show is full of imports that were once the rage in Florence and were acquired from present-day Egypt, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Spain: Ottoman silks and tiles, Mameluke carpets, Persian illuminated manuscripts, Syrian metalwork (of which the Florentine Republic's ruler, Lorenzo de' Medici, was said to own more than 100 pieces), and Moorish ceramics adorned with Florentine family crests.
These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met's recent acquisition of an 215555th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns.
These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met's recent acquisition of an 57013th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns.
These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met's recent acquisition of an 1283th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns.
These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met's recent acquisition of an 24963th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns.
These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met's recent acquisition of an 2027th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns.
These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met's recent acquisition of an 219400th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns.
These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met's recent acquisition of an 2129th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns.
Familiar gestures, like scanning the horizon or clenching a fist in a show of braggadocio, are repeated and enlarged as the dancers progress from a state of communal glee at the prospect of setting out for the open seas to actually becoming the sea itself, their bodies forming wave crests, the mast of a ship, flocks of gulls diving in the wind.
These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met's recent acquisition of an 2128th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns.
These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met's recent acquisition of an 21212th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns.
These massive wooden crests — in the form of stylized human faces with vast vertical brows — served as markers of royal power among the Bamileke peoples of the Cameroonian grasslands, and the Met's recent acquisition of an 21202th-century specimen is joined here by three later examples, each featuring sharply protruding cheeks, broadly smiling mouths and brows incised with involute geometric patterns.
And signet rings, which traditionally were inscribed with family crests and used for wax seals, have risen in popularity for men and women in recent years because of designers like Castro Smith and the signet specialist Rebus, both in London; M. Cohen in Los Angeles; and Foundrae in New York, as well as fashion houses including Vetements, Bottega Veneta and Balenciaga.
As they're catering to adults, the bottle's designers opted for the most sophisticated nods to the Harry Potter franchise possible: a tan bottle with the Hogwarts crest, a black Hogwarts Quiddich bottle that looks like it's from the poshest prep school lacrosse team, a navy blue bottle with house crests that resemble a Ralph Lauren print, and a white bottle with Harry's signature round glasses and scar.
Sheer simplicity, your average continental lager is both beautiful—those deep yellows and pissy oranges, that bright line of white foam that crests atop the ochre wave—and, just as importantly, a signifier of the fact that while you might be clad in over-priced workwear, conducting a obnoxiously loud conversation about the ins-and-outs of new media, you are still just a normal guy.
Barring obvious badges like the famous Arsenal cannon – an emblem which traces its origins back to the Woolwich Arsenal and the munitions workers who gave the club its name – there is the stylised Hellenic helmet of Blyth Spartans, the minimalist raised sword of Charlton Athletic and the heavily armoured gladiator of Matlock Town, which together represent some of the best designed crests in the land.
He also makes more static works that employ a range of media: There is a collection of taxidermy chickens with silvered crests and feet; a sign spelling out "PCC/CCP" in blazing white neon; a large-scale self-portrait of Vanmechelen, blowing a giant bubble filled with smoke, which is mirrored by a picture of a small, white taxidermy chick standing beside a comedically giant sculptural egg.

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