" - Lexie, 29 "Skinny penis looked like gnarled parsnip.
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The pine trees outside the windows were just as gnarled.
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It's a hard, strangely shaped, almost gnarled piece of flesh.
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First, he washed its gnarled roots in a nearby river.
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By the end it's twisted and gnarled into an outright gimmick.
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In one sepia image, a gnarled man glances beyond the frame.
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The sun has bleached the trunks to a bony, gnarled white.
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These are gnarled, uncomfortable feelings—maybe the music should be too.
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He has the gnarled hands of someone who works outside every day.
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Gremlinhood is only met once you grow gnarled and bent from seshing.
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Does that lead into you playing the more gnarled, less human characters?
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His hand was gnarled, really bad—it was the late stages of AIDS.
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You don't know why you look this way, covered in gnarled, black tendrils.
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Life, like the gnarled roots of the weirwood tree, is full of twists.
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I blanched when I looked at her feet: gnarled, blistered, bruised, the works.
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I watched a raccoon wait out the rain Under a gnarled pine tree.
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Visitors inside were startled to instead witness a gnarled, mummified half-fish, half-monkey.
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Some see the system as a clean, crisp way of replacing gnarled government bureaucracy.
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Slowly, out of tattered Japanese robes emerged whitened feet, gnarled and aged and terribly exposed.
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Utopia Teased, by contrast, takes Steinbrink's production, and his songs to a more gnarled place.
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Some gnarled, naked grapevines start to pop up and soon we are in the Valle.
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He raps with a heavy, gnarled drawl and at a creeping pace — he sounds weary.
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Its kinked and gnarled limbs jutted out from the island like a giant praying mantis.
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They grew in gnarled clumps on broken knuckles of bedrock clenched like fists beneath the soil.
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The place he fell in love with was a deserted stony beach, some gnarled pine trees.
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Guardiola's team still played the pretty patterns, but United growled and gnarled and clawed them away.
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Some wave their tentacles from holes in the gnarled stems, like flowers at a mermaid's wedding.
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And because of the sensors, it atrophies over time, so they get more and more gnarled.
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The gnarled white oak on its front lawn is thought to be almost 500 years old.
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Swollen, shriveled, gnarled, bloody, stringy, flattened, crusty, sometimes frozen in place: the pictures aren't conventionally pretty.
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The branches are crooked and gnarled, while the rest of the tree is stoic and straight.
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Addiction is always the same creature waiting with gnarled teeth, a charismatic wink, and a smooth tongue.
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Jilian Medford, the songwriter behind gnarled indie rock project IAN SWEET, has a knack for casual devastation.
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"Sea Cucumber" is pleasantly woozy techno that strikes an enervating balance of gnarled and crisp production values.
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We walked through the tree house, ducking between gnarled branches tamed into living walls and a roof.
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His mouth is agape and his chest thrusts upward, his hands and feet locked in gnarled deformity.
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But along other parts of the border, the "wall" is a patch of dense, gnarled thorn brush.
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Baobabs dotted the horizon with gnarled branches that make the trees look like they're in perpetual pain.
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His grandmother made sandwiches for her teenage herders and tied their lunch to a gnarled pine tree.
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His washes of ink fashion light-toned sloping hills, shores and gnarled trees, boatmen, and distant lagoons.
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It sounds like Ben Affleck won't have to worry about making any gnarled, growling sounds as the Bat.
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Salt spray naturally prunes the forest's American holly, sassafras, black cherry and shadblow trees into a gnarled canopy.
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Restaurant Review 11 Photos View Slide Show ' What a gnarled knot of warring impulses I feel about Lowlife.
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Agarwal doesn't stock Rolex watches or diamond rings—he's in the market of selling gnarled, brown tree seeds.
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They are lean, with Popeye forearms, callused palms and finger joints gnarled from years of squeezing tiny edges.
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Uruguay, with its elite strike force and its gnarled, indomitable defense, was always likely to expose Russia's limitations.
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She zigzags through gnarled seascape that eventually snags the camera from her fin — and then the footage stops.
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Even the way the soil mounded wildly looked different, and what about the gnarled plants and those rough bushes?
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Her hands are gnarled and work-worn, but her color is good, and the hat she is knitting small.
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You'll find these flora, which are defined by dark green leaves and gnarled, twisted trunks, on the Auckland Islands.
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Gast, Copeland, and Blunt made gnarled, wooly, difficult records because finding your place in the world isn't simple, either.
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Some resemble slender wire mesh, glistening with variegated sections; others, the gnarled, knitted surfaces of wall-to-wall carpeting.
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The self-taught Brigman photographed herself nude in her beloved, gnarled landscape — her performance theater, really — beginning in 1905.
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A few congregations even replaced the gnarled ram's horn blown on the high holidays with a shiny brass trumpet.
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Take a look at the entries for gnarled and disenfranchise — both from the Word of the Day — as examples.
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Her gnarled art, entangled as it is with the history of sculpture, is also an act of rollicking invention.
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"I never lost a fight," she boasted, holding up a gnarled pinkie, broken in a street scuffle long ago.
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Take a look at the entries for gnarled and disenfranchise— both from the Word of the Day — as examples.
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All around us were old bottles and dead bushes and gnarled stumps, including the skeleton of a large fig tree.
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Cords that she had constructed from linen, synthetic raffia, wool, cotton, and sisal hung from the rafters like gnarled vines.
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Trilobites The Forest Service is so protective of its ancient, gnarled star that it will not even share its picture.
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" The twitching, gnarled keys of "Skim" dissipate when Scott sings that "there's no unlit corner of the room I'm in.
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Elsewhere on the island, Rega and I checked on a huge, gnarled, 300-year-old ceiba tree, sacred to Viequenses.
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The almond blossoms, gnarled trees and irises that dotted the French landscape reminded him of nature scenes painted in Kyoto.
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One ear was flat and mangled, his hands were gnarled, and from a finger on each grew a black fingernail.
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But this creepy spirit wants to pull Shay onto a gnarled, less-trodden path, where she can claim her power.
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We stream by clusters of small, modest midcentury houses, a trailer park, a car lot, and gnarled and naked trees.
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Piles of garbage and soggy furniture sat next to the gnarled remains of a fence separating the bayou from the complex.
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On their eighth album, they clean up the previously gnarled song structures, streamline the sound, and write a few hummable tunes.
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"We've never seen anything like it, never imagined it," said one villager, Huang Zhangrong, a sun-gnarled 66-year-old carpenter.
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I would have lapped it up with a spoon, but it was, no doubt, better on gnarled curls of shrimp chips.
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Every floor and wall a gnarled mess of greebles; every room packed with light-shafts, volumetric fog and post-processing effects.
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He spent the next morning at a doctor's office, his hands numb and gnarled by exposure to the late January cold.
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Two pieces of gnarled ironwood, from Poston, are not finished artworks at all, but Noguchi hung onto them, as grim mementos.
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Readers will recognize Lerner's often pleasantly gnarled sentences and the teasing slippage between first and third person:
Where were the parents?
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The band's gnarled riffs marked a logical progression from Metallica and Slayer, but Chris Barnes' Cookie Monster vocals stopped me cold.
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Weeping Choir finds their take on hardcore getting ever more gnarled and weird, which paradoxically only allows it to hit harder.
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Outside the church, a cast-iron bell is propped up by a piece of decayed wood wedged between two gnarled olive trees.
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His hands are gnarled and grooved by all of his years touching pigments and paints and chemicals and everything in his craft.
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" Although Abe has noticed the likeness, "the observation strained something inside him, twisted his guts up until they felt like gnarled roots.
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In addition to repetitive motion injuries, poultry workers are often forced to keep working with gnarled fingers, chemical burns and respiratory problems.
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Ms. Rae-Fisher seems as energized by large groups as Ms. Monte, whose "Pangaea" coalesced around gnarled lifts involving all eight dancers.
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The crane, 20203 feet high, loomed over a 22020-story gnarled tower of steel and glass designed by the architect Frank Gehry.
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The gnarled oyster once served in such joints now sits up like a gem on glistening, perfectly lit platters of crushed ice.
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Atlético and the Calderón fit perfectly: a little rough around the edges, a little scuffed and gnarled, always a work in progress.
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Any games that require you to use the face and shoulder buttons will leave your hand a gnarled claw if you're not careful.
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He planted gnarled trees and built up rocky islets, creating what he called the "Humble Administrator's Garden", a fine place for tranquil contemplation.
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In these gnarled ties between representation and reality, the figure of the Native, embodied by Akecheta, is positioned as the keeper of secrets.
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You open up your Facebook app but right when you tap "LIVE" you catch sight of your face—hideous, gnarled, cracked and broken.
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Safe in the Hands of Love takes Tumor's gnarled impulses toward wooly experimentation, and willfully harsh sonics and turns them into something beautiful.
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After baby Sam disappears in an unfortunate game of peek-a-boo with his sister, he is seen in the witch's gnarled clutches.
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Even after a wary moment with gnarled pig tail, Mr. Wells praised the chef's skill in creating big flavors without resorting to extremes.
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Either the Mueller investigation would prove the president was a longtime Russian asset, or it would prove itself to be a gnarled sham.
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The gnarled pop-rock of "Fighter," is a guide for working women to not just get even, but get better than their detractors.
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My facial hair is somehow both gnarled and pathetically thin, so I look like a cross between a wizard and a depressed teen.
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What happens between is equally strange: solos and duets, performed as if around a prehistoric campfire; bodies grafted together like gnarled trees, decapitations.
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Some residents use buckets of water to douse flames threatening their homes, often marooned in scorched areas of gnarled and charred tree trunks.
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He presides over men and women missing fingers, toes and sometimes feet, gnarled reminders of why leprosy has terrified people since biblical times.
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In Yodh, A.L.N. has transformed the project into something far more ambitious and expansive while retaining the gnarled core of his prior works.
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Brigman portrayed her nude body, significantly scarred from an accident, often lodging herself within a gnarled juniper tree deep in the Sierra mountains.
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Next, you'll need the part that was supposed to provide a place for your fingers to go before your hand becomes a gnarled stub.
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Mobile homes were tossed on their sides and ripped open, their contents strewn over a ravaged landscape littered with debris and gnarled, uprooted trees.
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He is no gnarled son of the soil but the owner of four companies and a farm where vegetables are grown under plastic sheets.
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Willa showed her little mercy: a metal corrugated roof collapsed, water pooled in the kitchen and gnarled branches littered Medina's front patio and backyard.
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Lumiere (Ewan McGregor) isn't all eyelids and smile as he was in the animation, but rather gnarled and impish; Cogsworth (Ian McKellen) is dilapidated.
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While posing for photos, he interrupts the proceedings to have me hand him a gnarled wooden staff leaned up next to an incense burner.
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But in their haste, they wiped out the gnarled features that people had come to treasure, including the crenelations and towers, Mr. Liu said.
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The Brooklyn trio's Vendetta Records debut is gnarled and complex, spanning various extreme genres but hewing most closely to a malevolent black metal core.
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We loved its 300-year-old trees — enormous white oaks with great gnarled arms — and my husband loved that it was off the grid.
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Basilicata is a misshapen, green, rocky, mountainous piece of land forming the awkward instep of Italy's boot, and Matera is its gnarled crown jewel.
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I sat below a gnarled old ponderosa that had survived the fire, facing a hillside that looked like a moonscape, and wrote Colin a letter.
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The songwriter Foie Gras has long made stretched out, gnarled songs that exist somewhere at the tortured borders between drone, noise, doom metal, and shoegaze.
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It just sort of hung there, floating in the air above a gnarled and flaming hunk of metal, occasionally letting out a proud horsey yelp.
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In "Norma," we are given a gnarled old tree, a thatched hut resembling a yurt, a megalith, and choral scenes augmented by gym-toned extras.
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The narratives are hard to ascertain, as she speaks in both English and French and her recited passages are as deliberately gnarled as the instrumentals.
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They also demonstrate his ability to make the most everyday plant appear alien, as in a photograph of three chestnut twigs arranged like gnarled totems.
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Seeing the ardent lover approach in short pants, it was difficult to forget that Siegfried, in Wagner's gnarled family tree, is technically Brünnhilde's nephew. Awkward.
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In the high desert at Sycamore Canyon, just north of Cottonwood, the hiking route follows perennial streams under a canopy of big, gnarled deciduous trees.
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Henry finally learns the truth when he attacks the Kid out in the woods, and briefly sees the Kid's true self: something gnarled and monstrous.
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In Westchester County, however, the mountain bike thrives on the gnarled, rocky trails of Blue Mountain Reservation in Peekskill or Sprain Ridge Park in Yonkers.
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Every choice the protagonist makes in "Fierce Kingdom," the expertly made new thriller by Gin Phillips, is another precarious step up a gnarled decision tree.
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The researchers also discovered 16,615 cases of peripheral artery disease among the varicose-vein group, compared with 9,709 cases for the adults without gnarled veins.
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Later in 2016, The Weeknd made his swerve into pop as well with the gnarled, shining Starboy and Toronto's R&B crooner set his own record.
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There is smoke and dust and blood, gnarled metal and smashed concrete, and the vacant stares of people who have endured almost a decade of violence.
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Armed with scraps of metal and thick, gnarled tree branches, pro-government student protesters attacked and wounded five photojournalists, including a photographer from The Associated Press.
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Under what was once the building's ground floor, rescuers continued to work among gnarled rebar, bricks and other debris, as humming generators powered emergency flood lights.
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In the reclining nude, by comparison, the gnarled torso, the lightly sketched peripheral elements and the corrections made with parallel hatching are all hallmarks of Michelangelo.
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The plants vary in form from species to species; without blooms, some look like gnarled nests of bare sticks or green, flat-leaved cactus-orchid hybrids.
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Longhaired, white-bearded, gnarled and naked, he pulls himself onto the floe and walks on bow legs to an icebound schooner, carrying a rifle and ax.
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But the feminist enterprise — housed in a converted machine shop by the water, with gnarled pear trees and epazote growing wild out back — is no museum.
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What's just as unfortunate as this paradigm, however, is the gnarled picture it paints of those who hang on every new development of Nicki and Cardi's feud.
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This triangular-shaped attachment slides onto the pen and adds two small rubber wheels backed by two gnarled metal wheels that line up with the roller ring.
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Partly this is the product of an effort by gnarled agitators from outside it to flood the party with activists and challenge the moderates in its institutions.
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Emilio Terry, the mid-20th-century architect, designer and artist, applied obelisks, interlocked spirals, scallop forms and gnarled coral textures to jewelry, furniture, garden ornaments and chateaus.
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Bled out by co-anchors McMaster and Weinstein, its seven gnarled epics are both brutal and brainy as the album rages full on with neck-snapping angularity.
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Looking back on his history in the punk, metal, and noise scenes, Power's set here pokes at the gnarled connective tissue between those genres and electronic music.
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In the front yard, an adult-size skeleton and a child-size skeleton, dressed by Gray's kids, perched against a gnarled tree in the long late light.
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As I headed deeper and deeper into the woods, the road deteriorated until it wasn't much more than a gnarled footpath over the shoulders of McGaffey Mountain.
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In a nearby display case, there is a greeting card illustrated with a snowy woodland scene called "Peaceful Valley," depicting deer standing stock-still between gnarled trees.
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Credit...Ilona Szwarc for The New York Times LOS ANGELES — A gnarled buffalo hide hangs inside "the barn," a cavernous room furnished with sofas and long tables.
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Enlarged and gnarled varicose veins and deep venous thrombosis, a clot that forms in the deep veins of the body, are strongly associated, the Taiwanese researchers found.
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Le Khai, who has fished in the South China Sea for four decades, runs a gnarled finger through the sand to make two circles of vastly different sizes.
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Doom-laden drones collide with the gentle strains of organic instrumentation—there's moments of peace, but often that stillness will be destroyed by fiery thickets of gnarled noise.
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But his power also gnarled and perverted his psyche, to the point where he wasn't just living selfishly but also looking to exploit, traumatize, and humiliate his victims.
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While the S8's photo is good, and hardly worth complaining about, the Pixel 18.0 did even better, capturing richer oranges and more details on their gnarled stems.
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There are gnarled and hyper-aged former schoolmates, who are ten, 15 leaps ahead of you on the adulthood ladder, and look ragged and ancient thanks to it.
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"Foreshadowed" starts off just lovely—the careful, delicate guitar work really sings—before dropping down into its crustiest moment, jackknifing straight into a gnarled churn of Swedish death.
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Described by Kray biographer John Pearson as a "skinny, gnarled old boy" who resembled "an ancient toothless crocodile", Grandfather Lee had once been a famed East End boxer.
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" The cover photo is a stiletto heel made out of gnarled barbed wire, with bubbly magenta text asking, "Do you think you can handle walking in our shoes?
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But like a tree, it extends its gnarled branches in many directions: toward the children it hurts, toward the state it burdens and toward the victims it consumes.
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A manager for AT&T, he had just come home from property he owned in Western New York, where gnarled old fruit trees still grow on the lot.
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On the south bank, joggers and Lycra-clad bikers zipped past us, down the Salón de Pinos, which was lined with eight thousand gnarled and windblown "character" pines.
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Among the supporting cast, the "Game of Thrones" alumna Charlotte Hope stands out as a newcomer to the gnarled household who wisely gets out while she still can.
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A cross-section of a preserved human brain looks like a slice of gnarled squash, with an undulating cream-colored interior outlined by an intensely puckered gray rind.
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Even though I prefer the warmer colors from the Note 9's pic, the Pixel 4303's pic captured much better details, especially in the teapot's gnarled wooden base.
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As excited as we are for the final bite – that glorious mix of bread crust, excess ketchup, sloppy onion niblets and gnarled bratwurst rind – we fear its inevitable end.
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Our correspondence continued well into her 80s when her fingers, the joints swollen and gnarled, made it too hard for her to do much more than sign her name.
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Born Maud Dowley in 1903 in the town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Lewis suffered from juvenile arthritis that eventually bowed her spine, stiffened her neck, and gnarled her hands.
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They all had a terror of him and his gnarled raptor hands, and the bigger boys, sooner than protect the smaller, sent them to his lair in their stead.
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Under the neon signglow of cheap beer brands, he'd bow forehead to formica and knock the table with gnarled knuckles until he was ready for seconds or seconds again.
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In darkness, we are shown a series of close-ups: gnarled hand, decapitated head, a foot, some blood, fragments that make little sense until the final portrait is revealed.
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Two hundred years ago, French-speaking Afro-Creole free people of color owned much of the property along Esplanade, a broad boulevard shaded by massive, gnarled live oak trees.
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But even if I Love Dick starts out as an artistic exercise, it quickly transforms one woman's frustration and boiling libido into something more complex, gnarled, even uncomfortably raw.
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Though each day brings a few more minutes of light, the root-cellar stock has dwindled down to last summer's dry-skinned beets, gnarled carrots and potatoes with eyes.
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There was none of the usual talk of borders, of settlements, of incitement of terrorism or of the long and gnarled history of two peoples on the same land.
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You see people from all over the world; you listen to them speak a dozen different languages; you watch them gently touch a gnarled tree, a wall of granite.
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I recognize that some of these images might represent the before: images of a slave's back, gnarled and branched with scar tissue used in the work of Carrie Mae Weems.
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Kim Zolciak just shared an up close and personal post-surgery photo of her son's injured face after he was gnarled by a dog ... and the attack left several marks.
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It also provides a history of living root bridges, describes how they are spun from the roots of the Ficus elastica, and highlights the ongoing threats to these gnarled routes.
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From a precocious youngster, Lewis grew into a tough man with a surprisingly friendly face, gnarled by his battles in the ring but, as a fighter, much stronger for them.
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That's usually what you do when you're signed to a label like Blackest Ever Black, you indulge your most gnarled and grim tendencies and let others cower at the results.
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Kidman fades into Bell to the point of being nearly unrecognizable — portraying her as a fresh-faced rookie, then as gnarled terminator — and has been nominated for a Golden Globe.
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Finally, after Judas is done dancing out his gnarled feelings, Jesus ascends into the air, hangs there for a few pointed, awful moments, and disappears into the fog behind him.
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In the early 1900s, she produced self-portraits of her nude body, significantly scarred from an accident, often lodging herself within a gnarled juniper tree deep in the Sierra mountains.
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Caroline Framke: The Handmaid's Tale tells the kind of story that curls up in the pit of your stomach, settles into a gnarled knot, and stays for a long, long while.
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And I had a vague idea of what he looked like, thanks to an old boyfriend's record collection: his gnarled, crooked grin; his leonine head with wizened cheeks and dark eyes.
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As such, it's a travelogue of his time on the road—a moving depiction of his time criss-crossing the country, with arrangements and instrumentation as movingly gnarled as the journey.
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Snapchat has proven that you can hand a teen a gnarled mess of features and they'll figure out how to master them, so long as their friends are on the network.
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The occasional dirt road led to the solitary farmhouse lined with old gnarled trees that looked as if they might have been planted as a shield against the howling prairie wind.
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From gnarled old trees to head-butting walls, pour one out for everyone who's going to wake up in a dumpster tomorrow morning, and enjoy this sweet pitcher of GIFs instead.
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But his sharply cut harmonies and intense, gnarled rhythms conveyed a manifestly Afrocentric sensibility, one that was slightly more barbed and rugged than the popular hard-bop sound of the day.
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The haunting drawing is of a small man with a gnarled face and contorted expression, wearing a large dress and standing with his hands on his hips, his pelvis thrust forward.
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Savannah is a gorgeous place — Spanish moss drips gloomily from gnarled oak trees and old colonial-style houses line its dignified streets — but it is also a city of great complexity.
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The handsome carrots Superwally droned in never tasted as sweet as the stumpy and gnarled red-cored Chantenay they grew in their garden, but those had all been harvested months ago.
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Beyond Alley's, I took a right on Music Street, then a left onto Middle Road, where I twisted and turned under the gnarled tree canopy that filtered the crisp winter light.
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Yorke's gnarled hollow-body guitar and the trundling percussion sound as though they were grown out of soil, a sound made visually real by the dreamlike, stop-motion-animated accompanying video.
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After Mr. Cunningham's death in 2009, Mr. Atlas gathered a series of videos consisting of close-up shots of Mr. Cunningham's wrists, elbows, ankles and knees, gnarled and swollen from long use.
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He'd already tasted a not-insignificant amount of success as Pro Era, rising alongside Joey Bada$$ as a producer with a knack for turning gnarled sample flips into sneakily infectious underground anthems.
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Its 20-foot climbing towers, with natural, gnarled boughs lashed together with willow wands, were made by hand, not in a factory (which would share legal liability in case of an accident).
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He likes to leave bulbs on tulips and might present lilies of the valley — traditionally given in dainty sprigs to loved ones on May Day in France — with their gnarled roots intact.
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It wasn't even the 4,000- to 5,000-year-old bristlecone pines — a stark, surreal grove of gnarled, ancient wonders that have withstood all that this cold, harsh world has thrown at them.
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Just down the block from a Sephora in Downtown Brooklyn, Tea Brown, co-owner of a traveling spiritual shop called Tea on Mars, sells bags of the gnarled, golden resin from Somalia.
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The dominance of Republicans has freed many states to take a significant turn to the right on several issues, even as a divided federal government in Washington finds itself gnarled in gridlock.
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Silverman — who has been friends with C.K. for more than 20 years, and whose sister Laura has claimed he harassed her too — visibly struggled to express her gnarled feelings on the subject.
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They bumped across the desert in Toyota Hilux pickups, 15 to 20 in the flatbed, grasping gnarled sticks for balance and praying the jugs of water they sat upon would last the trip.
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Underneath these mythic themes, they paint gnarled landscapes in curdled monochromes or florid bursts of color, occasionally scraping off layers of splattered guitars to reveal the doomy drones holding the whole thing together.
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Once parked behind a detached semi trailer, I stepped over trash, human feces, and a gnarled guardrail before making my way through a hole in a chain link fence to the shop entrance.
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His fiddle playing had the deliberately rough-hewed sound of rural tradition; his tone could be sweet or scratchy, his phrases songful and melancholy or propulsive and gnarled with ornamental turns and quavers.
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They were so awkward, so bad and so numerous, that they were, in the aggregate, somehow good — a perfect tribute to Michelangelo's strange genius, and to the gnarled history of the statue itself.
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La Torture Des Ténèbres sent shivers down my spine the first time its gnarled black noise hit my eardrums, and repeated listens have revealed even more ghostly details floating amidst the chaotic din.
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Pearson stands for a moment, utterly still, the grasses tickling his worn boots as he takes in the juxtapositions: the natural and the gnarled wrapping itself gloriously around the fanciful and the strange.
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I know the contours of that table by heart, the gnarled bays and knobby peninsulas around its edges, and the burl of its silken surface, like cream rising in a cup of coffee.
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It's also hard to fathom, in these #MeToo days, how much opprobrium was hurled at Harrison, in particular, for publicly unfurling her gnarled history, as if she were complicit in her father's crime.
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Another dark-ale color, this beer looked as if it belonged to a gnarled older gentleman who sits in the same corner of the same bar every day and orders the same drink.
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The stretched stitches and gnarled strands bursting their wrappings in the "Heads" series of 19803-75, part of a grander project called "Alterations," suggested, in stark terms, psychic distress tipping over into madness.
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Paradise is a working-class community surrounded by pine forest, whereas Montecito is one of the nation's wealthiest enclaves, settled amid Southern California's shrublands, gnarled oak trees, and the state's towering, ubiquitous weed, eucalyptus.
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From there, the story entangles you in gnarled plot threads and subjects you to constant, delicious emotional upheaval, as Wei Wuxian becomes a target of scorn due to his ability to wield black magic.
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The leaves of "Winter," for instance, which represent the hair of a man with a face like a tree trunk, cascade from his gnarled head in crisp, thin sheets that feature subtly bulging veins.
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As the shuttle drove past increasingly opulent homes, I caught glimpses of the rural landscape O'Neill knew — here, the remains of a walnut orchard, there, an ancient oak stretching gnarled branches over someone's deck.
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Sideshow gave him a chubby gut and specially produced hands that are all gnarled; they even included the rhinestones on his toe that are easily missed if you've only watched the movie on VHS.
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Listening to the entire album all the way through — which I highly recommend — feels like spying on Lorde's most gnarled thoughts, the kind you may have also experienced but never knew quite how to express.
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Beckett uses the ornamentation in her landscapes to speak about her subjects' inner worlds "as they twist like gnarled branches, softly desaturate with melancholy, or bloom with vanity and education," writes the Corey Helford Gallery.
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Although to the modern eye, her gnarled skin and unnaturally bent toes can shock, a new exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences by Jo Farrell, a British photographer, brings out their beauty.
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Shortly after its release, however, at least 35 devices (according to Samsung at the time) exploded or caught fire, leaving a trail of photos and videos of gnarled Note 7's posted to social media.
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In her feature-directorial debut, Annabelle Attanasio, who also wrote the script, sidesteps the expected, as when one of Mickey's crucial relationships ends with a gnarled whimper rather than the explosion that seemed entirely likely.
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So the rangers equipped themselves with nets and tranquilizer guns and fanned out into the jungles, full of pungent lantana bushes, old gnarled teak trees and clouds of dragonflies hovering in the thick, humid air.
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Other mantises resemble gnarled twigs, scraps of tree bark or decomposing leaves, blending in beautifully with forest underbrush, tree trunk or canopy, a cryptic approach to fool would-be prey and their own predators alike.
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Each death is another opportunity to delve deeper into the gnarled web of crypts, sewers, and rooftops that make up the prison colony you're trying to escape, and the path is thick with monstrosities and obstacles.
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In one — with the privileged access that only film or physical intimacy can offer — we see up close Cunningham's gloriously gnarled feet and watch him move like an animal, graceful and frantic, across his rehearsal room.
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Related: A Massive Bonsai Tree Brings "A New Stage of Beauty" to the Top of a Mountain Inside the Botanical Laboratory of Japanese Flower Artists AMKK Sensual Drawings of Gnarled Hands Touching Nature | Monday Insta Illustrator
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Coughlin won two Super Bowls, lost more games than all but four coaches in NFL history, and has the distinction of being the most egregiously tart crabapple ever to fall from Bill Parcells' gnarled coaching tree.
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For Po's Jade Palace, there is Longquan (Dragon Spring) Temple, a place of Buddhist worship in the mountains northwest of Beijing, where gnarled gingko and cypress trees tower over red-walled buildings underneath rocky Phoenix Ridge.
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There is something optimistic baked into the very form of techno, even at its heaviest and hardest and most gnarled—it's reliable, a familiar centering force pushed forward on the back of a brawny kick drum.
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It was generally held to be inconceivable that a team as disciplined and well organized and gnarled as Diego Simeone's could contrive to throw away a two-goal first-leg lead, but contrive to it did.
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As a reminder of the domestic political division, Perry, who describes himself as a "gnarled 57-year-old transvestite artist" on his Twitter page, has placed "Our Mother", a statue of a refugee, in between the vases.
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Drawing on the whole history of their recordings—both their gnarled as well as dancefloor-friendly impulses—they've crafted a collection that's emotional, but controlled, each angst-ridden track a focused assault on both flesh and spirit.
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The show was meant to demonstrate the rise of a network of gay parties across the country that prioritize adventurous musical selections running the gamut from disco, to techno, and even more gnarled forms of club music.
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The makers of the vehicle, known as the Transit Elevated Bus, declared the ride down a few hundred yards of street on Tuesday a success, but the controlled conditions hardly reflected the gnarled unpredictability of Chinese traffic.
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Outside this small city and throughout the region of Manchuela, old vineyards of bobal (pronounced boh-BAHL) grow resolutely in sandy limestone soils, recognizable by their thick gnarled vines, trained for decades into free-standing goblet shapes.
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One of the best places to enjoy the vista is the hotel's rambling garden, created by the Cape Town-based landscape designer Leon Kluge and planted with ancient mission olive trees, gnarled guava trees and purple poppies.
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Sunlight pours in through a broad pane of glass that bends up over the facade and onto the roof; inside, a miniature courtyard encases the gnarled trunk of a guavirá tree in glass, like a botany exhibition.
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Other photographs frame the moon over a pair of swaying pines in Appling County, Georgia; spindly trees rising above long grass in Craven County, North Carolina; and the flat crown of a gnarled trunk in Talladega County, Alabama.
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The gnarled relationship that nuns have with God — and by extension, themselves — is what spurred writer and director Maggie Betts to write the screenplay that would become the film Novitiate, which just saw its Sundance Film Festival premiere.
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With its gnarled trees, moss-covered boulders, and misty ambience, Wistman's Wood—a remnant of an ancient forest near Devon, England—has captured the imaginations of visitors for thousands of years, inspiring legends about druids and supernatural hellhounds.
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REZZ kicked off the stage takeover with gnarled bass explorations, and just before Mija took the stage, the post-EDM prankster Josh Pan played a downtempo set largely consisting of kick drum firebombs and ear-bleeding synth squeals.
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I called him up last week to talk about those gnarled family ties, the new album, and how this different musical territory on Broken Limbs Excite No Pity has enhanced his solo stage setup (preorder the album here).
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Alvin's costume is a purple basketball jersey and shorts, silver body paint, and an armadillo head created from gnarled metal and wires that features glowing red eyes so disturbing that it'd send a shiver down Immortan Joe's spine.
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We had a kitchen garden set off from the lawn by a white trellis, which had been colonized by a grand, gnarled wisteria vine, with lavender blossoms that looked close up like the bearded faces of little men.
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That made him an anomaly for his era: a 2000s progressive who rooted his singing in the tenets of 1980s and 1990s rock, and someone who knew how to extract feeling both from careful whispers and gnarled yelps.
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Mr. Hall, Ms. Milioti, Mr. Esper and Ms. Caruso — who all have more full-bodied voices than Mr. Bowie does — nonetheless capture the Bowie inflections and phrasing, while striking gorgeously gnarled and introverted poses, choreographed by Annie-B Parson.
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There are no roads in the region, so we followed in the tracks of vehicles belonging to the military and to other N.G.O.s—up sandy hills, past millet patches and goat pens made of gnarled roots and thorny vines.
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Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Avey Tare (Dave Portner), Geologist (Brian Weitz), and Deakin (Josh Dibb) have built a career out of following their most gnarled impulses, but recent years have found them in the limelight more than most absurdists.
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" The landscape is so alive to Carey that it forms a body, from the tip of Darwin down to the desolate Nullarbor Plain, where the wind whips the sand, the "gnarled and stunted scrub, myall and mallee and mulga.
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Charley is dealing with a lot, and it's often as if the world itself has created a landscape that reflects his inner self — never-ending and seemingly barren, but filled with a gnarled life that persists against all odds.
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In "Newspaper Stand," the gnarled, haughty faces of the upper class look down on an emaciated figure in a black robe; in "Tourism on the Karntnerstrasse," a veteran on crutches begs for change, his body revealed as a skeleton.
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He collected sea-shanties from a gnarled old sailor sitting on a quay by the Bristol Channel, and extracted a treasury of early English songs from villagers in the Appalachian mountains whose ancestors had emigrated across the Atlantic two centuries before.
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Rail firms' resistance to this corporate crack cocaine is hard to explain, but may reflect the lingering presence in their boardrooms of gnarled railmen with a love of horn blocks and glad-hand connectors, rather than earnings-per-share enhancement.
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His solo work—a string of albums and singles over the last half decade for DFA, gnarled techno institution L.I.E.S., among other tangential dancefloor orbiters—has sought to demonstrate the inverse, that dance music benefits when you get a little strange.
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GNARLED beams and splinters of wood are all that remain of many houses in Toribío, a town high in the Andes that saw some of the worst of the violence in Colombia's war against the FARC, a left-wing guerrilla army.
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The unmistakably British sunken kitchen — with its stoneware and gnarled cutting boards, its antique dresser filled with tea and local honey — and the dogs frolicking in the meadow near a table loaded with fresh strawberries and cream, are almost painfully picturesque.
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Blackest Ever Black may be best known for the gnarled releases that underscore their bleak moniker—bombed-out techno, most notably—but over the course of their five-year existence, they've released a swath of records outside that realm too.
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It's a quiet, beautifully acted adaptation of a Leo Tolstoy story, "Where Love Is, God Is," with John Rhys-Davies as a gnarled, embittered cobbler who learns that he holds within himself the key to breaking out of his misery.
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The small, sinuously gnarled turkey bone of a model, blanketed in pencil points and guidelines, was converted by Henraux's artisans into the 7.5-foot "Ding Dong Bat," a serpentine marble sculpture now at the Noguchi Museum in New York City.
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Rainbow's greatest triumph is not hearing Kesha rip out the gnarled pain that had been nesting inside her, or finding catharsis in defiance — it's that it makes a point of expressing the frustration, hurt, and even joy in what comes next.
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In the reflection that greets me, my teeth appear smaller, my nose more gnarled like an arthritic knuckle and my eyes lack sparkle, perhaps because they're now so far back in my head that any sparkle gets lost finding its way out.
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Before I reach the first official item on my tasting menu, large crisps of spinach tempura perched atop a chunk of gnarled wood arrive in a presentation that looks like one of the pastoral creations of three-Michelin-starred Azurmendi chef Eneko Atxa.
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In his new store, on Christopher Street, a collection of Cetti's paper roses, hollyhocks, and geraniums bloom in the windows, alongside a branch of paper wisteria, a special commission, in honor of an ancient, gnarled wisteria vine growing up the building next door.
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Instead, as the gnarled mess of politics and the news cycle continues to rage on, Late Night has remained steadfast in its mission to deliver the news with biting accuracy, compassion for those living outside Meyers's own experience, and a determinedly level head.
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His voice was a grainy moan as he sang about woman troubles and hard luck; his guitar could drive dancers with boogie and shuffle beats or play leads that were lean and gnarled, gliding smoothly and then coiling into a dissonant sting.
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On Soccer LONDON — In those last few minutes on Wednesday, as Tottenham Hotspur threw all it had at Juventus in one last, desperate attempt to remain in the Champions League, something came over the gnarled veterans at the heart of Juventus's defense.
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Catch "American Girl" or "Don't Do Me Like That" on the radio and he's unmistakable: a voice filtered through the material emoluments of the rock star lifestyle until the gnarled whine that remains suggests a man who can survive anything, take any punch.
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Uruguay's gnarled back line, which had built its reputation on years of repelling some of soccer's most potent attacks, gifted Didier Deschamps's team safe passage into a semifinal in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Tuesday, conceding two soft goals in a 2-250 defeat.
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A self-taught artist who lived in extreme poverty much of her adult life, Lewis struggled with what appears to have been juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, painting bold, colorful scenes of red trees and black cats with brushes tucked in a tiny, gnarled hand.
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Here you'll find the gnarled trunks of ancient bristlecone pines in California; smears of gold as lavender and wheat dance in the Provençal wind; eerie spikes of rock formations in Kunming, China; and otherworldly parasol mushrooms sprouting under cork oak trees in Spain.
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The Voice was an integral part of the landscape of the city—Manhattan was crowded with those gnarled, graffiti-covered plastic boxes full of free copies of the city's rowdier, weirder alternative to the Daily News, New York Post, and New York Times.
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Over the course of their two decades in action, Black Dice have been hardcore deconstructionists, a bleak noise trio, and off-kilter dancefloor destroyers (just to name a few of their few gnarled forms), but each transformation comes like a gene splice gone wrong.
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Alongside these objects is a sort of three-dimensional version of Starling's displayed "memory map," a collage of images that connects this obscure Yeats play to the broader community of Modernism at the height of World War I. At its middle is a gnarled tree.
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Since 2008, the imprint has been a hub at the gnarled outer realms of electronic music, issuing—among their vast swath of releases—battered takes on futuristic techno, subzero grime refractions, chest-caving drones, and ambient records that feel like unusually aggro ASMR tapes.
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It wasn't until after he felled the tree and counted the rings that he realized, to his horror, that he had, with permission from the United States Forest Service, unceremoniously sawed down the oldest known tree in the world — a stately gnarled pine called Prometheus.
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A new two-track, 40-odd minute Dispirit demo popped up on Bandcamp with little fanfare last week, and it's excellent; slow, meditative, and imposing, with its strains of magisterial black metal and chthonic doom twisting and turning around one another like gnarled roots.
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With gnarled forests in Northern Ireland, vast glaciers in Iceland, and ancient medieval fortresses in Croatia, GoT's locations are the antithesis of the cheap studio-sets-only of TV in the 1950s and 60s and even the exterior shots of the 1970s and 80s.
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Leaked to the internet and released as a stand-alone download in 2009, "These Are My Twisted Words" came out in-between In Rainbows and The King of Limbs, but as a rhythmically-gnarled krautrock attack it wouldn't have been an easy fit on either record.
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School children posed by the El Árbol del Tule, a colossal Montezuma cypress in Oaxaca, Mexico, suggest the scale of its over 137 feet in circumference trunk, while just the canopy of the rare Camperdown elm in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, is celebrated for its gnarled shapes.
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Far from the shining portrait of noble knights gallantly riding network appliances into the cyberbattle, these buzzwords trace a fuzzy silhouette of a warrior that transforms into a greedy, gnarled claw waiting to snatch budget dollars when you embrace the shadow of your would-be hero.
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The young trees in this orchard were grown for transplant, or maybe they just took cuttings, because now they're as gnarled as the tree in the meadow they call the Wedding Tree, which was split in a storm, its fallen branches scattered around the still living base.
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The suite laces gnarled horn arrangements and spoken tributes to Ali over protean rhythms, drawing on influences as varied as Count Basie's big band and the drum-and-bass of 27s London; the music emulates the rugged grace and mercurial power of Ali in the ring.
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Dafoe is gnarled, unabashed, and as voluble as a revivalist preacher, though his gospel is that of the sea; you have to go back to Melville —who is name-checked in the end credits—to find monologues so salted with madness, swaying between aria and rant.
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For Mr. Eidinger, who presents his character's gnarled frame as if it were the dernier cri in high fashion, is a Richard who is so utterly and aggressively upfront about who he is and what he plans that it's hard to take him seriously at first.
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The newcomers include Madison (a scene-stealing Zoey Deutch, most recently seen in Netflix's "The Politician"), who, Tallahassee grumbles, doesn't have enough brains to provide zombies with more than a snack; and Nevada (Rosario Dawson), who possesses the sort of self-sufficient grit that even turns Tallahassee's gnarled head.
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On that track—and throughout the record—her interpersonal musings come accompanied by tempestuous guitar parts, and gnarled chord voicings lending a heaviness and a discomfort to the musings, a sense that whatever conclusions she comes to aren't totally settled, just the best she can do for now.
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You can picture the scene: The Dark Knight, rigid like a gargoyle on the very edge of a towering structure gnarled by the rigors of fantasy fulfilment, unlikely architectural swoops and curves complementing gleaming glass and dazzling neon, looking out over the city he's guarded for 77 years.
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There's gnarled 10-minute jams full of contortionist rhythmic interplay ("Atlantic Black"), nauseous two-stepping grooves ("Flipped OUT"), and a track described on by one the players on a trippy interlude as a "gust of energy coming down this mountain that I feel on my back kinda vibe" ("Butterss's").
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"Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang," the painter's white and black on gold treatment of a traditional Chinese landscape subject, is anchored in one corner by craggy, snow-covered hills that look like ocean breakers and in the other by a tiny village in a grove of gnarled trees.
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Bewitched by a gnarled fruit tree, a soapstone sink and a carved pineapple newel post, she chooses to ignore a few insalubrities, like kitchen linoleum that makes her "want to look up the year linoleum was invented" and the former owner's possible expiration in one of the bedrooms.
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"As to an explanation, that is not so easy," said William Remphrey, a retired plant scientist from the University of Manitoba, who discovered a genetic mutation causing a group of aspen trees in Canada to curve and droop consistently over development, resulting in gnarled, twirly, Cheeto-esque trees.
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Devils 5, Rangers 2 NEWARK — Sergey Kalinin had a smile on his gnarled face and a bright red cut trailing down his nose after he scored a goal, had an assist and got into a fight in the Devils' 5-2 victory on Tuesday over the Rangers at Prudential Center.
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Right now, the fact that Nicole Kidman claps like one of those women in the Guinness Book of Records with long, curled, gnarled-up, old six-feet-long fingernails, clapping like that fingernail woman is gently trying to kill a slow-moving bee: That's fun, but it's not life-changing information.
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"He had reached this apex in his career around 2007, but I think it worried him and made him question why he was making art," said Mr. Darling, whose exhibition traced the artist's arc from smooth plasticized figures to mythical beasts and monks rendered craggy and gnarled and at gigantic scale.
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While alert to Bulgaria as a country that his best students wish to abandon, the narrator also, at times, takes enormous pleasure in the city of Sofia itself, in the Bulgarian language, in the landscape around him, in the gnarled and dense history of which he can only catch glimpses.
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He rubs it with real purpose, pulling the skin into impossible shapes, before letting it not exactly snap back onto his head—it takes its time, like the gnarled skin of a scrotum—and I fear for him a little, as if his hand might drag too far and pull his face free.
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And Ace and Jig strikes a back-to-the-land pose, with a brunette in a checked dress balancing on the base of a massive gnarled tree, her head cast down in a private-looking gesture as she examines not the natural beauty exploding around her, but, rather, her own bare feet.
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But it's one capacious enough to appreciate the meaning of her music's sometimes gnarled migration from straight country to the structural and sonic priorities of R&B to "Lover," which is, mostly, a stable, serious, pleasurable synthesis of all of these sounds, proof that the synthesis contains traces of American music histories.
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Over the years, Mr. Carlson said he had "freakouts," when he would look at the art and start to think that there was some sort of message in it — a secret text from grandfather to grandson hidden in the eyes of Mr. Ostrom's portrait subjects or the gnarled hands of the fishermen.
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The Cole Swindell song "Flatliner" (featuring Dierks Bentley) wouldn't have been missed on a middling Poison album (because every record has its thorn) and Brett Eldredge's "Somethin' I'm Good At" is good at being inoffensive country pop (as an old Southerner, I like my country music gnarled and ancient like Willie Nelson or Hank Williams).
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In this space, noise artist and Lynchian kindred spirit Alex Zhang Hungtai hypnotically honked on a sax alongside David Lynch's own son; dance producer Hudson Mohawke soundtracked Sky Ferreira scratching at an ungainly rash with gnarled-metal soundscapes; Eddie Vedder could come across as pained and mournful even while wearing a silly-looking hat.
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Fortunately, this week's episode has helped me to name her (Mildred), give her a voice (here you are, Mildred, in the Gray Lady — daily readership 9 million!), and wrest my keyboard from her gnarled, nicotine-stained talons in order to bring you all the good word from Mama Ru on how to do the same.
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The indie-rock band Yo La Tengo got it from the strange, brilliant 19603 album by Sly and the Family Stone, "There's a Riot Goin' On." It was Sly Stone's last great album, which included the hit "Family Affair," and its viscous, gnarled, inward-looking funk has been scoured for ideas by songwriters like D'Angelo and Kanye West.
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One of my favorite spots on the island, and the flattest half mile we walked in three days of hiking, came as an intermission on our climb out of the cirque: the Plaine des Tamarins, a grassy, shaded valley of gnarled trunks and shimmering, scimitar-shaped leaves that looks like an appropriate place to hold a druids' convention.
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Given stewardship of a great and fascinating game that people love to watch, the NFL decided—for reasons that could only make sense to the dour regional billionaires that own its franchises, and which are best expressed by the thick ginger oaf they hired as their factotum—to focus on the gnarled and grandiose aspirations of its singularly boring owners.
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BIRMINGHAM, England — Cornwall, that gnarled old boot of land, which kicks violently out Atlanticward from the southwest corner of England, has long been a tremendous allure for artists and writers seeking to imbibe something of the wildness of its coast or the intoxicating spirit of its general remoteness from any standards of gentility proposed by those laughably know-all metropolitan know-nothings.
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Our plan was to make a beeline from the airport in Bari to the western flank of Basilicata, then work our way eastward: From the town of Sapri on the Tyrrhenian coast, through the hills of the Campania border, wending along the Ionian coast to the southern edge of Basilicata, and finally to Matera, the gnarled crown jewel, where we would come to our journey's end.
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A sniff at the acrid, dust-laden air of Kathmandu (with a whiff of untreated sewage from the mountain streams that converge in its centre), or a glance at traffic gnarled in a moonscape of potholes, or a tally of citizens still living in temporary shelters more than two years after the earthquake in 2015 that killed nearly 9,000 people, all substantiate an impression of strikingly inept government.
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Money more a crossroads than the crossroads be— its gnarled tree—the Bryant Store facing the tracks, now turnt the color of earth, tumbling down slow as the snow, white * & insistent as the woman who sent word of that uppity boy, her men who yanked you out your uncle's home into the yard, into oblivion— into this store abutting the MONEY GIN CO. whose sign, worn away, now reads UN Or SIN , I swear— whose giant gin fans, like those lashed & anchored to your beaten body, still turn.
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Here is what they see: a young boy, his facial features obscured, feeding bread crumbs to a duck, while his parents explain to his brothers why his treatment has left him unable to speak at age 2; a man sitting at a picnic table, ruminating on what his son must be experiencing without the words to express it; a playground, where the boy rocks on a toy horse, swings, giggles, spins on a carousel, then disappears; a path to a beach, where the boy is now strapped to a gurney, his tiny body hooked up to machines, the water filled with bobbing, gnarled tumors; the shadow of a dragon against the sea; a flight through the window of a hospital; a doctor telling the family that a recent MRI shows the boy's tumors have returned; a nurse assuring them that the staff is very good at end-of-life care; the boy's parents sitting still and silent while the room fills with water; the boy, now sitting in a rowboat, wearing a tiny life jacket that doesn't look sufficient to protect him.
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