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The paint is chipped and it has rust flaking off.
I am so annoyed; flaking is my biggest pet peeve.
But oil does more than just prevent flaking and dryness.
Droplets of water sparkled on rusted pipes and flaking windowsills.
Dr. Sadick recommends shampooing with Nizoral if you experience regular flaking.
The mullions and heavy painted-wood frame are flaking and crumbling.
The biggest downfalls of any mascara are clumping, smudging, and flaking.
A cream that contains oatmeal extract to prevent flaking and irritation
Now, little by little, those old prejudices seem to be flaking away.
Still, let's face it: Flaking on plans is sometimes … kind of rude.
"The picture was remarkably unremarkable," Nye said, recalling the oil painting was flaking.
Now that the weather is getting nicer, she hopes the flaking will subside.
Some of those effects are minor irritations like inflammation, redness, burning, or flaking skin.
In German, typed and inked on flaking sheets, they looked intriguing if not ominous.
So your friends flaking will no longer be an excuse not to go out!
As long as you aren't continuously committing and then flaking, your friends will understand.
The week of my wedding, my face was extremely dry, flaking, red, and irritated.
Is it firm and flaking apart at the touch, no longer translucent but opaque?
There's just something unsettling about being so dehydrated to the point of cracking and flaking.
It has seen better days: the gold paint is flaking and the torso is cracked.
With these, you're looking at less flaking, more ingenious ingredients (like beeswax), and longer wear.
It can also result in skin flaking, gum disease, and high blood pressure in children.
"Skin with a balanced pH looks healthier and hydrated, without flaking or redness," says Day.
If you've been flaking on responsibilities, it is time to get real—especially at work.
I hate flaking, but I really wanted to bail to get an actual workout in.
This tool was used to sharpen the stone tools by flaking off new sharp edges.
Symptoms among children include pink hands and feet, flaking skin, high blood pressure, and rash.
LILLE, France — A tarnished brass-and-crystal chandelier here, a flaking gilded-wood mirror there.
Winter's cold weather can be very harsh on our skin, causing dryness, flaking, and irritation.
But it quickly became the only formula that stopped my lips from their afternoon flaking process.
They give me ALL THE CRAP for flaking, but I honestly cannot muster up the energy.
Four years in when your poster is flaking off your wall, you've just lost the taste.
And metal pillars are covered in layers of flaking paint that cannot conceal the corrosion underneath.
Paint is flaking, the masonry is cracking, the roof is leaking and the metalwork is rusting.
Together, the look lasts all day without flaking and transitions well into your office holiday party.
The cost of a no-show Flaking on the first day of work isn't completely new.
Layers of paint are flaking off the walls, and floors are heaped with dirt and dust.
In addition, users get penalized for flaking out, and they're eventually removed if they keep doing it.
They'd be iron, swollen with rust, peeling and flaking paint pushing off their surfaces like sloughing skin.
At the end of the class, I checked it out and there was NO smudging or flaking.
There's nothing worse that flaking at the last minute or being very late for no good reason.
Meat pies are more familiar, colonial descendants of Cornish pasties, flaking and caving without going to pieces.
Some polymers used in the machines are notorious for irreversibly yellowing, flaking, and turning cloudy and viscous.
Having lived in old buildings before, both were familiar with finicky heat, flaking paint and water leaks.
She claims her lips started cracking, flaking and bleeding, creating blisters and rashes which lasted 10 days.
Tea tree oil can help reduce levels of that yeast, and subsequently reduce inflammation and scalp flaking.
It adds both volume and length to lashes without clumping or flaking like many other drugstore mascaras.
Mother and daughter slept on the floor, near a bookshelf where an inspector later found flaking lead paint.
Also on this day, the Sun will meet with Saturn, so don't think about flaking on any responsibilities!
Compared to the actual reality of historic red-brick halls and flaking frescoes, the virtual kind falls rather short.
Gordy Mania is a humble place with cracked floor tiles and white and green paint flaking from the walls.
His mother, Azza Abdel Fattah, gestured at the room of flaking paint and crumbling walls they were sitting in.
Where a stone's surface is flaking or "sugary," it can be mechanically tooled away, although that comes with drawbacks.
Probably Going to Text-Cancel On The DayMore upfront than flaking at the last minute, and equally non-committal.
The words "Circuit Clerk" were flaking off its transom; they were, I'm guessing, painted on there well before 1955.
Eternally exhausted, both parents are borderline neglectful, "floating" holidays and flaking on carpools and skimping on therapy for Brick.
Ahead, we rounded up some of our favorite sprays for fluffing up fine hair — no crunching or flaking in sight.
But when tip-toeing around on Giraglia island, these pads quickly become saturated by microscopic crystals flaking off the rocks.
The result is a flaking and peeling surface that surrenders its distinctive image to the materials that survived the onslaught.
Around the two-and-a-half month mark of my Accutane cycle, I started noticing some flaking on my lips.
Scientists also analyzed the flaking of paint on the murals, which was worse in areas of black and red pigments.
I pulled into the parking lot of the Thai restaurant hoping that I didn't have pit stains and flaking mascara.
The conservators cleaned portions of the walls and applied adhesives to flaking paint, in an effort to forestall pictorial losses.
The formula inside really does cure just about any skin irritation — from fresh laser wounds to rough heels to flaking lips.
I've recently noticed, however, that the finish is chipping or flaking off, sometimes where there doesn't even appear to be damage.
I was most interested in this dual-ended mascara designed to lift, curl and volumize lashes without causing clumping and flaking.
You can't get much done if you're hungover, and you'll probably have anxiety at night if you're flaking on your responsibilities.
But if your friend's flunking every class and flaking on tests and assignments due to drinking, that's more than an academic issue.
There's a slew of solutions to soothe itchy dryness, greasy product build-up, and the flaking and irritation that tend to follow.
Lead in drinking water is not the main risk of lead poisoning — flaking of old lead paint is the most common cause.
Ducournau doesn't just have blood, she also has sweat, flaking skin, exposed bone, chewed hair, and a bikini wax gone horribly wrong.
However, my friend situation is growing dire (I have very few friends left in NYC), and I am fundamentally against flaking culture.
It might sound risky but with one exception, Hutchins says he can't remember his friends ever flaking out on paying him back.
They issued two pictures of the gate propped up in a store room, apparently intact and mostly black with some flaking paint.
A 1520s boxwood piece has an incredible visual of death, with a cadaver's skin flaking off, like a cocoon it is shedding.
However, the Manduka ProLite mat comes with a lifetime guarantee, so you're safe from losing your mat to flaking, peeling, and fading.
Do you ever feel like canceling plans with someone, but decide against it because you fear that flaking might upset that person?
If, like me, your lips are prone to flaking at the slightest sign of full-coverage lipstick, reach for a hydrating formula.
But the experienced researchers in Dennell&aposs team noticed how the  flaking of the stones  was repeated to create lines in various directions.
But sometimes it can feel like finding the right gel or pomade that lasts all day without flaking is the true art form.
"Flaky nails are better kept short, regularly manicured, and treated with oil and keratin-boosting products to help prevent the flaking," she says.
They emerge like time-crusted fossils, throats slit and heads arched back, brittle and flaking, and are beautiful to eat, bones and all.
Ground beef is sealed inside flaking pastry disks for shabaley, the meat moist from a dash of beef bone broth, lush with marrow.
"Generally, flaking is caused by yeast on the scalp and putting oil on the scalp is like providing food for the yeast," Lenzy explains.
We tapped marketing coordinator Michaela Rollings — who admits that dryness, redness, and flaking around the nose are her biggest skin concerns — to find out.
New hires: Don't do this The job market is so good that some new hires are flaking on their employers before they even start.
You think you understand the physics — now it gets compounded by adding these icy packs that are constantly evolving and flaking and falling off.
Bo still made himself pause to listen, to be sure there wasn't a whirlybird drifting on the other side of the paint-flaking metal.
Now, in their eighth decade, they are fragile, the paint on their arches is cracked and flaking, and they are deteriorating, the Smithsonian said.
In the three months I've been using it, my cheeks stopped flaking, and my forehead is significantly smoother since it isn't over-producing oil.
Also, because I wash my hair once a week, it's important that it's strong enough to work but isn't flaking off the next day.
Sudan's skin appears as a dusty, abstract landscape of crevices, folds, and ridges, its topography craggy and flaking, like bark slowly peeling from a tree.
Image: © J. Paul Getty TrustCareful analysis of the wall paintings showed they were in relatively decent condition, but with some flaking and paint loss.
The group, Mareamico, said state operator Anas had assured them the Agrigento viaduct was not at risk of collapse despite concrete flaking off its pylons.
Even in his rush, however, he captures the patterns in the granite, the rock's warping and flaking, and the growth of algae along the bottom.
Murals on the interior walls were flaking off, and the free-standing bell tower across the village's central plaza had acquired a crazed, Seussian cant.
"Dandruff shampoos work to decrease flaking, normalize rapid cell turnover, hydrate the scalp, and indirectly decrease itching," dermatologist and Dove hair expert Francesca Fusco, MD, adds.
They've been flaking on our plans with increasing frequency, and this is the first time I've seen them since a group outing a couple weeks ago.
Double Extend Beauty Tubes Lengthening 2-Step Mascara has a primer on one end and mascara on the other that combine for longer length without flaking.
If the paint is intact, with no signs of peeling, flaking or chipping, then leave it alone, as it is unlikely a child could ingest it.
Chopping down a sapling means first flaking a stone into an adz, then hammering the adz into the trunk until the tree can be wrenched down.
For our money, it must allow an additional sunscreen to easily soak into skin and for makeup to be applied without piling or flaking throughout the day.
"You think, I can't say no at first, but as hard as it is to say no, it's better than flaking at the last minute," she says.
It's a different lifestyle out there — people were constantly flaking on me, breaking plans, and it was totally normal to not show up to lunches and dinners.
It was such a large painting that it was rolled up and stored for years in a city museum in Autun, France, where cracks and flaking developed.
This year I've resolved to do the streak — really do it, every day in 2018, no flaking — so I'm working these on the phone from now on.
With his skin flaking off, Al-Qadi was losing his barrier to the outside world, and this hospital was the worst place for someone susceptible to infection.
In fact, data shared with Refinery29 showed that 45% of millennials don't think flaking is that big of a deal — hence why we're more likely to do it.
When you say yes to plans you know you're going to flake on, it leads to expectation of flaking and you become the "unreliable" friend, Dr. Bonior says.
While I prefer it around the eyes, it&aposs a nice way to stave off dryness and flaking on the mouth (in addition to your favorite lip balm).
There were stains on the carpet, a leaky hot tub in the backyard, a semi-finished basement, a kitchen with ancient appliances, and countertops covered in flaking plastic.
The National Chicken Council — whose members produced one-third of the recalled products — said manufacturers are upgrading their equipment to models less prone to breaking, flaking and crumbling.
In their original incarnations, these pimple patches aren't medicated, which means they don't cause the dryness, flaking, or local skin reactions common with a lot of topical medications.
"The most common issue with many lightening agents is that they can irritate the skin, leading to redness, flaking, dryness, or even itchy or burning sensations," Dr. Shah says.
"The Eco Styler Styling Gel with Argan Oil and Let's Jam Shining & Conditioning Gel work very well together in keeping the 'Wanna Be' shape with no flaking," he adds.
Liza Minnelli canceled, and she's know, you know, she's a great artist, but she's known for sometimes flaking out," O'Brien said with Ritcher adding that she's a "troublesome diva.
Like pastry flaking off of a toasted buttery croissant, or snow falling over an idyllic country village, the irritated skin crumbs fall gracefully away from her scalp with ease.
Longtime observers of his tortured reluctance to back Republicans going in a direction he does not like will recall that such stands often end with Flake simply, well, flaking.
Abigail Hykin, a conservator at the museum, has stabilized its flaking paint and has supervised tests that revealed insects, nails, dowels, pins and patches embedded in the body and limbs.
At the Male Boutique in Redfern, the suits, all donated, hung from a ceiling beam with flaking maroon paint; $80 wool ties were laid out on a collapsible plastic table.
Or delicate, flaking slices might appear in a broth of fish and pork bones, simmered for half a day and mobbed with fresh tengjiao (a type of green Sichuan peppercorn).
Pisces is soft as hell, so having action planet Mars in this sign is always funny (at least, it's funny until people start flaking out of agreements and being passive-aggressive).
Soon enough we were in flat water, tied up among the massive warships, laughing about the "sporty entry," and putting the deck gear back in place, flaking sails and planning dinner.
The most common reason people gave for flaking was that they were tired, followed by not feeling well enough to attend, and forgetting that the event was happening in the first place.
It lasts all day without flaking (this is huge, because flakes are major irritants), and best of all, you can build it up without lashes feeling brittle or dry (again, irritation central).
Rachel is a lush, decanting vodka tonics into a plastic beaker for boozing on the move, and Blunt presents a gaunt and sorry spectacle, with flaking lips, unfocussed gaze, and rosy nose.
The problem isn't the source of the water; it's the pipes, which contaminate the water after it leaves the city's water system and enters the home water system's aging, flaking, peeling pipes.
Unable to swallow anything but rice and vegetables ground into a mush, her skin flaking from dehydration, her bent limbs curling into themselves, her end was relayed to me inch by suffering inch.
But that doesn't mean you can't beat winter at its own game — you know, that one that ends in chapping, flaking, redness, and just plain irritation (both of the physical and mental varieties).
While both can be effective for clearing up acne, the former often causes skin irritation and flaking, and the latter can alter the microbiome, which sometimes induces a slew of other adverse health effects.
Courtesy L'OREAL USA Available in nine fun colors — from a rich aubergine to a glittery gold — the iconic Parisian brand's new lineup adds a bold tint to your lashes without any flaking or clumping.
She would be sorry about flaking on a party last-minute, but she would not be sorry about showing underboob, snoring on a plane, regifting (she's a fan), or hooking up with an ex.
It was an all-around rough time, but I did learn a valuable lesson: Body scrubs and conditioning masks can work miracles to combat the drying, dulling, and flaking effects of a frightful season.
Fortunately, hair care brands are well aware of how important reinvention is in the market, and there are tons of new products that can help remedy an itchy scalp or treat full-blown flaking.
There was flaking, which is normal, totally normal, but painless, really low maintenance, and so far I'm thrilled with the results, so I can't wait to see what will happen after the touch-up.
My apartment, just off the Maidan, had a steel door that was entirely charred, with flaking black and rusted bits; it had shielded previous occupants from a barrage of Molotov cocktails earlier that year.
Sure, his four consecutive first-date cancelations were irritating and inconvenient, but maybe he didn't think the same thing about flaking on a first date four times in two months without asking to reschedule.
In March, 2009, the fading, flaking painting was removed by the authorities, although Vrubel then remade it with more durable paints, an event that disgusted Sonia, who saw it as de-historicizing, spectacularizing, cheapening.
Which is to say sketchy dealers flaking on registration isn't just a hassle for drivers—it puts them at risk for unpredictable encounters with law enforcement, during a tense time in police and community relations.
Because you don't switch between trainers with each workout like some apps, and because they have your activity and heart-rate data from the Apple Watch, they can spot patterns of procrastination or flaking out.
Stretching from the figures, up and onto the wall, are long shadows rendered in black sequins, culminating in four faces, which Biggers drew with his fingers, flaking over the sequins and exposing their gold undersides.
The Pew Charitable Trusts, an NGO, reckons that every dollar spent on "lead abatement"—painting over old painted walls or removing flaking woodwork—saves at least $17 in medical and special-education costs, and lost productivity.
Also known as the Middle Stone Age, this stage of hominid development is characterized by the emergence of sophisticated stone tools, including fancy new blades, distinctive flaking and pointing methods, and a preference for smaller tools.
Pasteis are empanadas by another name, flaking dough crimped around ground beef set off by mustard, green olives and paprika, or cosseting guava jam and mozzarella, the swoony pair that the Brazilians call Romeu e Julieta.
The beach volleyball star Kerri Walsh Jennings is also among the group; she says her bronze medal is flaking and rusting, and the U.S.A. Swimming spokesman Scott Leightman said some swimmers have damaged medals as well.
Katherine is afraid that her baby, as yet unbaptized, will be among the lost, denied entrance to Heaven, while William, his authority flaking and peeling away with every scene, admits out loud to being a thief.
The risks to children of flaking and peeling lead paint chips became better understood in the 1940s and 1950s, when the companies, together with the medical community and government, took steps to remove lead from household paint.
Or more chunky areas, where it looked like the paint was pretty flat and flaking, we would put it on and then scrape it, lightly scrape it, with a putty knife to make the flatter, dimensional areas.
One reader wrote to Carolyn in 2017, a year after their dad died, because their fear of losing their mom was giving them panic attacks — so much so that they started flaking out on spending time together.
Plus, Mercury retrograde provides you with the chance to tighten up loose ends and get around to tasks on your to-do list that you might have considered flaking on, but now finally have the opportunity to tackle.
Just be careful you don't get it wet or handle it too roughly, Hanekamp says — as all-purpose as selenite may be, it's actually pretty fragile and prone to flaking off if you don't take care of it.
All those hours you spent smoothing lotion onto your arms and legs and neck, sunning in hope of a solar cure, sweet klutzy embarrassed kid, so unready for your height, teenage prisoner of your flaking and sore knees!
It's not so extreme that I get dry patches or flaking on the regular, but enough that my skin screams out for thick creams and a hit of oil in my foundation, all to maintain the slightest glow.
When Cecilia came along with her broad brushstrokes, the flaking, moldy piece of art barely resembled "the result of two hours of devotion to the Virgin of Mercy" that it had originally been, according to the wall text.
I have covered thousands of miles in a few days, and I feel my parts flaking off, a shedding of yellow pieces covering the turning earth, and I am helpless to this soft disappearing that some call sleep.
His behavior has been indicative of a lack of self-awareness at times—repeatedly missing weight, flaking on training sessions even while being filmed by HBO's 24/7 crew, bouncing from trainer to trainer seemingly on an annual basis.
Sofia Boutella brings a gorgeous intensity to her role, but there's none of the scarab-chewing grossness of Arnold Vosloo's mummy in 1999, or the looming menace of Karloff, or the grodily flaking flesh of Christopher Lee in 1959.
But malawach, a fried bread from Yemen with flaking layers, is a pleasure unto itself, equally fine in two incarnations: savory, accompanied by a daub of green awaze ignited by jalapeños; and sweet, filigreed in shredded coconut and honey.
" If you're trying to tame your brows, Gibson recommends MAC Brow Set in Clear: "The ultimate gel based formula to control the brow and keep it in place without flaking or becoming stiff but still leaving a slight shine.
Using everything he had learned, in years of study, about anatomy, perspective, light, color, and the physical manifestations of human emotion, he painted one of the world's most celebrated masterpieces, completed by early 1498, and flaking off the wall by 1517.
I tossed my prescribed cleanser and creams after discovering they were not only drying out my skin to the point of flaking and cracking (which was super cute alongside the cystic bumps) but also came with a list of side effects.
Sitting in the dust was a seven-year-old boy who removed his dirty flip-flops and splayed his feet, revealing flaking and blackened cracks between his toes from days of walking with his mother and sister from El Salvador.
Nycha, like all public housing that receives federal funds, must abide by myriad rules, and since 2000, one of those has been to look around older apartments every year to check for possible lead paint hazards, like peeling or flaking paint.
Most skin types can benefit from the addition of hyaluronic acid — if you're dry, it can add the extra boost your skin needs to stop flaking, and if you're oily or acne-prone, it can actually hydrate without clogging your pores.
Knowing that most controllers start to degrade primarily in the thumbstick department, with rubber flaking off and more serious issues related to drift and dead zones, Astro decided to make custom modules that can be easily swapped around and replaced if necessary.
Skin swelling or redness, change in breast shape, nipple discharge (other than breast milk), pain in or on the breast, and skin flaking or dimpling can be other possible warning signs of breast cancer, according to the Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
The ONR is "satisfied that they demonstrate the continued integrity of the reactor pressure vessel and that the hydrogen flaking present in the Doel 3 and Tihange 2 reactors in Belgium is not evident at Sizewell B", it said in a statement.
Whether they help bring out efficacy in your moisturizer or just give your skin the boost of hydration it needs to stop flaking, the following masks act like a big drink of water for your complexion — no matter what your skin type.
He scratched his chin, Then named a woman whose flaking shingle style Is eight down from mine, a woman I've known, Good God, for decades, who's now by chance assigned To be playing second harp at the stand right next To mine.
Then the promotion pulled him from UFC 200 for flaking on media obligations, and if White's admonishment of McGregor and his tardiness at Wednesday's press conference wasn't a public sign of personal strain, it was an indication that things aren't quite so chummy.
It turned out to be the work of Cecilia Giménez, a woman in her 80s who decided to restore the fresco because she was upset that the representation of Jesus was flaking off as a result of moisture on the church's walls.
For Murray it was a taste of the winning feeling, something he has not experienced in singles since January in Brisbane, shortly before a tearful first-round exit at the Australian Open when it appeared a flaking hip would end his career.
Whether you're looking for a mattifying primer that sticks to your makeup like glue, a lightweight barrier that wears like a sheer moisturizer, or a refreshing spray that magically melts your flaking foundation back to cute, you'll find a great, low-budget option, ahead.
I had come to Naples without a guidebook or even a map, in search of a disheveled neighborhood of "flaking walls" and "scratched doors," where the "wretched grey" of the buildings clashed with the passion and repression of the characters of the writer Elena Ferrante.
It was also clear that it was a risk, given that Clemens would turn 22006 in August, and would only take the mound after flaking off the rust he'd accrued following a solid but unremarkable partial season with the Houston Astros the year before.
In Rome, the twenty-six-year-old Forbes bought his first Italian painting: a half-ruined, flaking altarpiece attributed to Girolamo di Benvenuto di Giovanni del Guasta—the first of many acquisitions that he made with the intention of lending them to his alma mater.
Sports Briefing More than 80 American athletes have sent medals they won at the Rio Olympics to United States Olympic Committee headquarters to be shipped to Games organizers, who will replace them because of flaking, black spots and other damage, the U.S.O.C. said Tuesday.
" Before washing, Emmy Award-winning Andre Walker -Oprah Winfrey's former hairstylist of over 30 years and co-founder of Andre Walker Hair- advises to "brush or massage your scalp before cleansing to stimulate blood circulation to promote a healthy scalp and to remove any flaking from dryness.
I've struggled with hormonal acne for around 10 years and find it so difficult not to pop and pick before bed, which ultimately leads to a spread of bacteria (and subsequently a cluster of brand-new breakouts in the AM), not to mention scarring and flaking.
In a two-month stretch at the end of 2017, contractors hired by the city visited 8,300 apartments and found potential lead paint hazards — peeling or flaking paint, or dust — in 80 percent of them, according to records produced as part of a lawsuit in state court.
Millennials get a bad rap for ghosting in relationships and flaking on plans, but we still crave the sort of connection and meaning that can't be found in breathless small talk while catching up — or inside a blue text bubble we read alone in the dark.
You could get hung up on the fact that the sky gets dark around 4:30 these days and your skin is flaking off in sheets — and we feel your pain, we do — but you could also look on the bright side: 'Tis the season for super-sales.
Retinol (and its fellow vitamin A derivatives) can be transformative for the skin — but, like most ingredients when you have rosacea, they need a lot of research, and you have to be careful with use as it can result in skin sensitivity, including purging, flaking, and more redness.
So after a year of much study and negotiation, monument conservation experts plan to first remove the iron cage that Jerusalem's colonial British rulers built in 1947 in a prior effort to keep the Aedicule from collapsing, after a 1927 earthquake and rain left the structure cracked, its marble slabs flaking.
The procession of plates is dizzying: lamb shank like a gauntlet thrown down among swollen prunes and slivered almonds; chicken wallowing with fleshy green olives and mellowed arcs of preserved lemon; bastilla, a flaking meat pie under a drift of icing sugar; m'smen, a many-layered flatbread with secret caches of butter.
Shorts season is officially upon us, and when those stubborn sandpaper-y patches left over from winter make their presence known — streaking your self-tanner or flaking around your ankles — you're going to need something to rub all over them... and the rest of your body from the neck down, while you're at it.
Mercury's vocals remained impressive up until the end; "The Show Must Go On," recorded in 1990 while he was reportedly too weak to walk, serves as both a mission statement for the band in this period ("my makeup may be flaking but my smile still stays on") and a stunning testament to Mercury's talent.
The Republic of South Sudan is not even five years old, but already 50,000 people have been killed in an ethnically driven civil war replete with mass rape, civilian massacres, countless people displaced, killings at hospitals and now children starving to death in sunshine-flooded pediatric wards, skin peeling off their little backs like paint chips flaking off old wood.
It's a meditative chaser to a breakfast of khubz, flatbread with flaking layers from folding the dough over and over; foul, fava beans mashed roughly, for texture, rather than obliterated into velvet; scrambled eggs bright with a confetti of bell peppers; and wedges of Abu Al Walad (literally, "for the child"), a cheese as soft as butter, found in almost every Yemeni home.
When your father runs his hands through his hair, it is because he has forgotten his terrible, flaking dandruff, which he forgets only during times of severe emotional or physical distress, which means that he is about to tell you a story that is either upsetting or horrifying or both, which isn't fair, because you are a son and not a therapist.
Three years later, Soup—a derivative of the high school nickname earned for flaking on his buddies to hang out with his girlfriend—is seated across from me at the Versailles Cuban restaurant in Mid-City LA, grinning as he picks at bits of his shrimp rice dish; his only disappointment tonight is the state of his favorite sports teams, the Dallas Cowboys and LA Lakers.
Gazing at Vincent posed against his poisoned teal, his jacket edged with the bright-blue trim of his imagination, I thought of the laborers behind all those Forbes pigments: the women who rinsed, kneaded, sieved, and dried the pulverized lapis lazuli that Giovanni Bellini used for the Virgin's ultramarine robe; who stood waist-deep in horse manure, the vapors of which hastened the flaking of lead that produced the "lead white" used by Frans Hals and Rembrandt to capture folds of linen and lace.

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