And we know that at the center of every proper Grecian labyrinth is a proper Grecian minotaur.
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Romanticism, animated by an Arcadian fantasia of Grecian urns, Elvan forests,
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Robin Wright ditched accessories, leaving her Grecian-style gown to shine.
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Don't expect Grecian urns when the show opens, on Feb. 12.
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The flowing, one-sleeve dress featured sparkling crystals and a Grecian cut.
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Robin Wright brought Grecian goddess vibes to the 2019 Emmys red carpet.
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The enclosed backyard has a heated pool, surrounded by more creepy Grecian statues.
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How's this for a Grecian Formula ... Tiffany Trump and Lindsay Lohan in Mykonos.
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"Something about these Grecian sunsets 🌞☀🌅🇬🇷 ," she captioned the shot.
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Camila Cabello looked like a Grecian goddess in a white toga-like dress.
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Here 13 dancers shine like the sun in Santo Loquasto's sporty Grecian costumes.
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At least make this Grecian chicken stew with cauliflower and olives for dinner.
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See Lohan rising out of the Grecian water like the island's new patron saint.
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When Game of Thrones started, Daenerys Targaryen's long hair flowed over draped, Grecian dresses.
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But Amma described her Grecian getup as transforming her into Artemis, the blood huntress.
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But in Grecian designer Celia Kritharioti's case, she was the perfect woman for the job.
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Parts of the boulevard have wide, grassy medians, Grecian columns, pergolas and classically styled mansions.
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People make fun of track and field, but it's on Grecian urns for goodness sake.
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For all the grandiosity of its ancient Grecian name, the Draco is a fairly unassuming thing.
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But Grecian introduces a fantastically devilish pair of bounty hunters who call themselves Mr. and Mrs.
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One of her most fashionable looks was her orange Grecian gown at the 2004 Golden Globes.
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Are we, like the men chasing the maidens on Keats's Grecian urn, locked forever in "mad pursuit"?
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Standout numbers at the LVMH -owned brand included a gold pleated evening dress with a Grecian twist.
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It also brings back the popular naval combat system from Black Flag, complete with Grecian sea shanties.
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Across the region, thatched huts are giving way to small concrete palaces, replete with faux-grecian pillars.
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In another image, scaffolding surrounds the bust of a Grecian statue, protecting it, yet boxing it in.
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It is a florid tribute to a painting or engraving on — you guessed it — a Grecian urn.
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Here We Go Again is still at heart a kooky, poppy, lighthearted romp in the Grecian sun.
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Also, the Grecian flow of it was always something I envied and wish I had in my closet.
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Plus, it has a body-skimming Grecian-style design that hugs her curves in all the right places.
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For the nuptials, Weixler wore an off-white, Grecian-style tulle gown and wore her hair in waves.
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Around the turn of the century, Isadora Duncan's radical, barefoot, Grecian-inspired dances disrupted the art form forever.
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She is likely to wear it, she said, with flat Grecian sandals and a T-shirt on top.
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The effort also involved replacing the 267,235 marble tiles that make up the pool's Grecian-style mosaic floor.
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Kenneth is 6-foot-3 and bald, with arms like Grecian balusters — developed over decades in the gym.
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Costumes have always played a major role in GoT, with designer, Michele Clapton, winning acclaim for Dany's Grecian looks.
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The star sported a custom Gucci one-shoulder gown, which she paired with a high bun and Grecian headpiece.
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Kevin Hart's fiancee Eniko Parrish confirmed this burgeoning trend with her Grecian-inspired, pleated, black one-shoulder column gown.
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Among these are the Grecian antique sculptures known as the Elgin Marbles and the Benin Bronzes from modern-day Nigeria.
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If anyone was going to be receptive to it at all, but I felt like a Grecian goddess on stage!
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Cruz chose a Grecian-inspired gown, and supporting actress nominee Williams shimmered in a knee-length, Swinging Sixties style dress.
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You guys, we found this fucking thing in 1902, why is this rusty Grecian crank still making headlines after 115 years?
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Their dress is Rick Owens classical — draped, twisted and pleated Grecian robes queered with horsehair, beaten lambskin and outsize bugle beads.
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By the final number, when they portray warrior figures in Grecian-style dresses by Ms. Theallet, their locks stream below their waists.
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" THE RULEBOOK: LESSONS LEARNED "The Achaean league, as it is called, was another society of Grecian republics, which supplies us with valuable instruction.
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A vaguely Grecian cream chiffon gown with trailing fabric by Saint Laurent she wore to the Golden Globes exposed both cleavage and flank.
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"Some of this expense, my Grecian friends, is indeed on your account; most of it, however, is on account of Lucullus," he said.
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Head down the stairs and you'll find yourself in a room with metallic walls and faux-Grecian-style murals of naked, bathing women.
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If you're going to dress up as Khaleesi, you've got choices — from her silky Grecian gowns to her sexy leather desert-trekking gear.
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It will include 75 (!) "walking tours" through the game's environments, with guides like Plato telling you about the Grecian world as you go.
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"Tribute that may be urned?" is a corny shout out to "ODE on a Grecian Urn," which has endured its share of ribbing.
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But a slither of red tulle under a Grecian column of what looked like crocheted tablecloth was surprising in the most graceful way.
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But we eventually get to see the entire thing in all its basilisk glory when Jamie takes advantage of the fact that the snake swallowed her and cuts herself out of its body with a sword like some Grecian hero, if Grecian heroes sported corporate-chic bob haircuts and leather pants (as more of them should have, in my opinion).
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The booklet accompanied an exhibition Azoulay curated, The Perennial, at the Grecian Shelter in Prospect Park, which was presented in partnership with More-Art.
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Jessica and David Oyelowo rocking these prints like clashing isn't a thing cause iT'S NOT Oh look, Issa Rae in a literal Grecian gown!
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In the Grecian myth, Narcissus becomes so enamored with himself that he gazes into his reflection, immobilized, for so long that he starves to death.
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Her artistic work spans mediums, from Grecian sculptures embedded with seeds, which will crumble to form a self-sustaining garden, to more standard studio-based paintings.
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In this community of modest homes and nondescript strip malls, Gardendale High, with its Grecian pillars and soaring, windowed foyer, spoke to the community's grander aspirations.
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Built for the Universal Exposition of 1900, the museum houses a wide-ranging (and free) collection of European art, from Grecian urns to Flemish religious scenes.
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In one series from the 18th century, celestial scenes, dense with shooting stars and vaguely Grecian imagery, were cut into cardboard and lit dramatically in warm tones.
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But while the three gathered to support their former band mate as he debuted his Grecian style restaurant inspired by the film and stage musical Mamma Mia!
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He fancied himself a suitor in the Grecian style, dispensing a sentimental education to his charges, assistants, protégés, and students—but hungering for mutuality and lasting love.
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It had to do with stoicism, and then hiking nuns (but the wimples didn't work), and looked kind of Grecian and sci-fi at the same time.
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He came to the "land of opportunity" in 1969, hoping to support his family and give them a life which was unavailable in 20th century Grecian poverty.
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Back then she made a somewhat more dramatic entrance, gliding through the gossamer curtains of a penthouse hotel suite, draped in Grecian-style gown of the palest peach.
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It's not easy to find the person with whom you're meant to spend eternity, whether you've got chicken legs or muscles that rival those of a Grecian god.
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Contrary to the wishes of her parents and much of the show's fanbase, "Bachelorette" star/grand prize Hannah Brown interrupted Tyler Cameron's heartfelt proposal on a Grecian mountaintop.
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Although Jack appears to have dispatched the Parkers at the end, the resurrection of those Grand Guignol figures shouldn't be a problem for an inspired fabulist like Grecian.
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Steeped in her Mexican-Cuban heritage, the designs are cut from Mexican cotton, available undyed or white, in roomy, often adjustable shapes, for a modern Grecian goddess vibe.
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It may have been Lupita Nyong'o's very first Oscars, but that didn't stop the "12 Years a Slave" star from wowing viewers with her light-blue Grecian gown.
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The Grecian rescue pup was on a walk in Ymittos with his owner, when he caught the scent of something (or somethings!) cute and in need of a hero.
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Joe Duggar is the latest member of his famous family to walk down the aisle, and now, he's whisked his new wife Kendra Caldwell off on a Grecian getaway!
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Just last week, the human rights lawyer wore a decade-old white Grecian dress from the store to attend an event at Buckingham Palace with her husband George Clooney.
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One member of the bridal party wore the one-shoulder Abigail style, two wore the intricately beaded Ascott design and two others were draped in the Grecian-style Emmy.
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The second details Bakst's love affair with Grecian antiquity, which follows a trajectory from neoclassicism to primitivism, and from primitivism to Hollywood grandeur, before his untimely death in 1924.
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Silvery, Grecian-style dresses provided a few flashes of color, in looks inspired by caryatid - the sculpted female figures used as columns, and which adorn many buildings in Paris.
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Experimental producer and Halcyon Veil label head, Rabit, and NON Worldwide-cofounder and artist, Chino Amobi, have previously collaborated on a track based on the Furies of Grecian mythology.
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"Earth & Sky #32" (2016) features a woman in a Grecian dress that doubles as a hood; it's not her hair but her backdrop that's crystallized and glowing (fluorite, actually).
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McDonald's Grecian-style gown and angel wings are lifted from an 1891 tribute to the Paris Commune by Walter Crane, a British illustrator of children's books and a Wobbly.
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Travel specialists Unforgettable Greece are looking for someone to capture envy-inducing snaps of crystal clear turquoise seas, white-washed authentic Grecian buildings, and luxurious infinity pools for their Instagram.
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Settle down in this Grecian paradise if you're seeking to sunbathe on gorgeous beaches, chow down at waterfront restaurants and tour the Archaeological Museum of Chania and the Nautical Museum.
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The department named Grecian Harrison, currently an assistant principal at Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School in the Bronx, as interim acting principal at Boys and Girls.
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Grecian goddess dresses featured interlocking sections made from yards of silk plissé (if there is a trend in couture, it's plissé), and ornate lace gowns were hand-pieced on tulle.
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For the people of its time, the "Odyssey" cemented the idea that xenia was fundamental for good character; resulting in hospitality becoming engrained in the fabric of Ancient Grecian society.
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For the people of its time, "The Odyssey" cemented the idea that xenia was fundamental for good character, resulting in hospitality becoming ingrained in the fabric of Ancient Grecian society.
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For the people of its time, "The Odyssey" cemented the idea that xenia was fundamental for good character; resulting in hospitality becoming engrained in the fabric of Ancient Grecian society.
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The weather was blustery and damp, which made everyone look very embarrassing — mostly Vanessa, who was wearing a horrible Thunderbirds-era leather jacket over a Wet Seal "Grecian" prom dress (+2245).
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Methods of hair removal for Grecian women ranged from the arduous task of plucking out the hairs one by one to singeing them off with hot ashes or a burning lamp.
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One evening a few days after we brought baby Ella home from the hospital, my husband, Dave, walked into the bedroom carrying what looked to be a tiny neon Grecian sandal.
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Here is his essay: In literature, we learned that in Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey," Homer uses the tribulations of the hero Odysseus to illustrate the Ancient Grecian custom of xenia.
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The view from the restaurant's back patio is incredible – we're looking over crystal clear water that's sparkling in shades of blue and green, with white Grecian-style buildings in the background.
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Coppola and Dunst's costars Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning and Colin Farrell were quick to come to the rescue, all smiles as they comforted the star, who stunned in a Grecian-style gown.
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That's the Grecian code name for a multi-purpose rig that combines a decked out off-roading dune buggy called the Blackbird with some cutting-edge camera, editing, and graphics rendering technology.
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Deep Grecian blue against the rocky reds of the soil, soberly surreal, his "Blue Burqa in a Sunburnt Landscape" was an oblique, salty response to Australia's attempted ban on the face covering.
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Alongside Ms. Tanowitz's usual pulled-up complex coordinations, deriving from Merce Cunningham's, there's a softer plainness in simple steps, hand-in-hand folk-dance circles and Isadora Duncan-like Grecian-urn groupings.
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To get to the bottom of the mystery that is packing for summer vacation, we sat down with the international supermodel and Instagram maven following her recent Grecian getaway with Net-A-Porter.
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"The gown had a very Grecian feel and looked absolutely stunning on her," Craig says, adding that, "Julianne sent through inspiration images of silhouettes and colors – they wanted something floor length and flowy".
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While the choreography (by Vaslav Nijinsky and Michael Fokine) reflected the poses of figures on Grecian pottery, Bakst's costumes evoked the voluminous, draped garments of Ancient Greece, adding intrigue by exposing erogenous zones.
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In A Separation, Kitamura tells a minimalist tale about a woman seeking out her estranged husband in a small Grecian town, who seems to have gone missing while researching a book about grief.
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The second duchess was committed to her pursuit of a perfectly formed Grecian profile, and soon after her marriage she underwent cosmetic surgery to inject paraffin wax into the bridge of her nose.
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"There needed to be someone else — this redneck Grecian chorus — who's involved in their trials and travails," Mr. Wise said in a phone interview, comparing "Krisha" to other productions he has worked on.
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The scene depicted on the memorial is of a serene classical temple, peopled with allegorical figures in Grecian attire and Christian saints and martyrs, flanked by soldiers, women and children in contemporary dress.
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Sara Mearns, wearing rehearsal clothes she wouldn't normally wear — a purple chiffon Grecian dress — turned to Lori Belilove to ask a question she wouldn't normally ask as a principal at New York City Ballet.
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Looking back at the teal Grecian gown she donned winning her first Grammy award in 1986 to the white athleisure jumpsuit she sported at the 73 Super Bowl, Houston's style was all her own.
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It's a long way to come for someone raised in the small Grecian village of Koklas, where the graduating class at her high school—at which both of her parents taught—consisted of nine students.
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Chlorine blue, bordered in forest green and looking out onto a Grecian gazebo, the pool was composed of hundreds of ceramic kitchen tiles, like a Minecraft version of C.Z. Guest's once-upon-a-time world.
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During a tour of the booth, Mr. Wilson recalled his childhood visits to a cluster of clubs — like the Grecian Cave, the Egyptian Gardens and the Arabian Nights Café — around Eighth Avenue and 28th Street.
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The perpetual knock on Wonder Woman has been that her origins — which involve that magical lariat of truth, Amazon heritage, and Grecian weirdness — are too bizarre and too esoteric for a general audience to understand.
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Wearing a white grecian-style asymmetrical dress by Alexander McQueen to the annual London film award ceremony, Kate accessorized the look with a pair of diamond and pearl earrings that were once a favorite of Diana's.
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"The way things are happening is as though the police are complicit in this act," said Grecian Mbewe, district coordinator for Chitipa and Karonga at the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation, a non-governmental organization.
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Crispin Odey, a hedge fund manager who supported the decision to leave and who once built a Grecian temple for his chickens, saw his European fund rise 10.09 percent for the month as of June 24.
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Harington arrived at the red carpet around the same time as his co-stars Gwendoline Christie, who looked like a Grecian goddess, and Sophie Turner, sans her personal JoBro (he had a show in Kansas City).
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Crispin Odey, the pro-Brexit hedge fund manager who once built a Grecian temple for his chickens, had a hefty 15 percent gain in his flagship fund after placing big bets on gold and against the market.
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Then to close, a handful of elegant evening wear looks, like a halter-neck gown with a trail of tiny buttons, or a white Grecian-style robe, with a blue rope belt and cape that fell behind.
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Likewise, at Valentino, Pierpaolo Piccioli accessorized his Grecian columns and palazzo pants and Aphrodite dresses with flat leather-strap sandals, the kind found at many an Italian resort, and loosed — or lost — the structure from his clothes.
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Paranormal sex has been a subject of fascination for centuries across culture, from the Japanese vampire Yuki-Onna, who is said to sleep with men and kill them, to Lamia, a Grecian shapeshifter who lures and murders men.
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In recent years, tourism to the island has exploded as global partiers and a new generation of celebrities and the ultrarich discovered the Grecian paradise after moving on from now-passé hot spots like Ibiza and Saint-Tropez.
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Oenology, an integral part of ancient Grecian society, is equally represented: an 8th-century-BC black pile of carbonised grapes excavated in Crete sits next to a silver drachm (type of coin) stamped with a grapevine, heavy with fruit.
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It's part Grecian draping, part French savoir-faire, and 100% stunning — especially since the wind played a huge part in giving the dress major movement and creating a dramatic photo no matter what angle the dress got snapped in.
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The right entrance brings you to The Airport, a triptych video installation that deals with feelings of longing and nostalgia within a Grecian landscape, perhaps the epitome of a country that longs for its better days in the past.
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A signature visual duet, given pride of place on the cover of the exhibition catalog, takes place between Boscobel's regal Grecian Easy Chair attributed to Duncan Phyfe and the Wickson Chair made by Michael Robbins of Philmont in 2015.
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The eye-catching white stucco spikes and balconies of the building (there's a hotel attached) look almost Grecian standing out against the water, and the museum stays open until the spectacular sunset over the sea is finished each day.
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Through the silence of Keats's Grecian vase, the reader comes to vanished songs; through the stones that Mr Kagge keeps on his desk, as he explains in "Silence", he enters a deep mineral existence laid down across aeons of time.
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Some 80 miles west of Athens, in the heart of the Peloponnese, Nafplio is the archetypal Grecian seaside town: a warren of cobblestone streets — punctuated by Byzantine-era Ottoman fountains and neo-Classical Venetian mansions — leading down to a bustling port.
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Sometimes that meant the body itself was obscured, as loose Grecian columns in a cascade of crepe pleats swung down from the neck and shoulders in the kind of simplicity that takes hours to achieve (effort can be hidden, too).
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Naomie Harris ditched her super modern Calvin Klein by Raf Simons gown and mismatched yellow shoes to hit the after party circuit, keeping with her all-white color scheme but going for something much more traditional in a pleated one-shoulder Grecian gown.
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Down a cobbled side street, through a garden bursting with grasses and plaster statuary — Grecian busts and monumental muscled legs — lay what the brand had christened Makers House, a petting zoo of craftspeople making things (tassels and patchwork and statues and such).
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After finally establishing via a lie detector test that they all have feelings for one another, the trio shares a sweeping love scene backstage at the college's theater, with Olive dressed in Grecian warrior garb, a hint at the origins of Diana of Themyscira.
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Rachel taking Emily's ticket on the trip to Greece in "The One After Ross Says Rachel" When Emily is (rightfully) furious with Ross after he says Rachel's name at the altar, it seems as though she's going to skip out on their Grecian honeymoon.
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Toprak, who made his fortune in construction, kitted his 30,000 sq-ft Grecian-style mansion — topped with a green copper roof — with a Turkish bath that can hold 20 people, an 80-foot dining room, and a pool spanned by a translucent glass bridge.
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Despite being a system that is (as far as I can tell) ungoverned by any organization, there is nevertheless a hierarchy, an explicit set of tiers and levels of who is more or less important than Kassandra in this Grecian system of freelance labor.
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"I thought about the idea of a beacon of light and Apollo being the god of music," said Mr. Condo, who made a tabletop model in clay, with Grecian-looking features and rectangular beams, resembling rays or horns, emanating from a tumult of handworked material evoking hair.
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After the previous events in the series — the last of which started with Kratos storming Mount Olympus and ended with him killing almost the entire Grecian pantheon, culminating with Zeus himself — it's hard to imagine how the new God of War could go bigger than that.
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He won his 12th and 214th individual gold medals, breaking a record set by the ancient Grecian Leonidas in 21 B.C. ■ In addition to Singapore, eight other countries got their first taste of Olympic gold: Bahrain, Fiji, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kosovo, Puerto Rico, Tajikistan and Vietnam.
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"I wanted for a while to combine my love of twinks with my love of politics and Donald Trump," Wintrich explains as we walk past blown-up portraits of slim, hairless, strong-jawed young men, posed like Grecian statues with their laurels replaced with "Make America Great Again" hats.
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Found at the back of a wardrobe was a self portrait in charcoal and crayon, now part of the display, that showed Ms. Kahlo's broken body — a shattered Grecian column for a spine, a medical corset strapped tight around her torso, her right leg wasted — exposed beneath transparent dress.
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Example: Alex Iyer, Geneva School of Boerne, San Antonio: Homer's "The Odyssey" and "As Rich Nations Close the Door on Refugees, Uganda Welcomes Them" In literature, we learned that in Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey," Homer uses the tribulations of the hero Odysseus to illustrate the Ancient Grecian custom of xenia.
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Alex Iyer, Geneva School of Boerne, San Antonio: Homer's "The Odyssey" and "As Rich Nations Close the Door on Refugees, Uganda Welcomes Them" In literature, we learned that in Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey," Homer uses the tribulations of the hero Odysseus to illustrate the Ancient Grecian custom of xenia.
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After the company's bankruptcy forces David (Levy) out of his glamorous lifestyle running art galleries, and Alexis (Murphy) out of the high-stakes world of fleeing kidnappers in Dubai with an array of Grecian boyfriends, they find themselves sharing a dingy motel room in Schitt's Creek with no clue how to function.
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Malley's first name is an allusion to Wilde's play " The Importance of Being Earnest ," in which Ernest is also the name of a fictitious person; and his nickname echoes " Ode on a Grecian Urn ," by John Keats—who died at exactly the age Malley supposedly died, twenty-five years and four months.
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There were small-shouldered, tailored A-line car coats and bolero tailcoats; corset-waisted petal skirts of fur under graphic Grecian-urn knits; body-hugging graphic curves and Mod dotty shifts; and a series of lace and knit evening gowns that combined filigree lace with deep-pile velour in a feat of erstwhile impossible technique.
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Launching at LA's Hammer Museum for their inaugural AIX Scent Fair on May 6, her two new perfumes, Graecoplokis and Uptown Safari—smelling, respectively, like "a yacht ride in the Grecian Islands," and "being on safari with Grace Kelly and Clark Gable in Tanzania"—are the first real products in her invented designer line, Rococco Rocco.
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Around the fifth century B.C., the Greek historian Herodotus described a Scythian mourners' rite: … when, therefore, the Scythians have taken some seed of this hemp, they creep under the cloths and put the seeds on the red hot stones; but this being put on smokes, and produces such a steam, that no Grecian vapour-bath would surpass it.
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The Grecian formula that keeps the place forever young — and old, and itself — has less to do with the monuments of kings and gods than simply with the rhythms of the day: Fishing boats are heading out before first light and the shepherd's son is leading the priest's niece under the olive trees in the early morning.
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To allow the home's original architectural details to become its focal point, she painted the walls a refreshing white (Farrow & Ball's All White No. 2005) and pared back the more lavish gestures — such as a wallpaper patterned with red graffiti scribbles and an assortment of oversize Grecian-style busts — though one would hardly call the result restrained.
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To allow the home's original architectural details to become its focal point, she painted the walls a refreshing white (Farrow & Ball's All White No. 2005) and pared back the more lavish gestures — such as a wallpaper patterned with red graffiti scribbles and an assortment of oversize Grecian-style busts — though one would hardly call the result restrained.
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FASHION-PARIS/HAUTE COUTURE-DIOR Dior's Grecian goddesses kick off Paris fashion extravaganza PARIS(Reuters) - Christian Dior took the fashion world back to ancient Greece on Monday with vaporous peplum-style gowns and shimmering golden numbers at its Haute Couture show, part of a twice-yearly showcase of one-of-a-kind outfits by top designers in Paris.
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In addition to the guest rooms, Banksy has created something of a museum that includes surveillance cameras mounted like taxidermic trophies, a Grecian bust surrounded by a cloud meant to depict tear gas, and a wax statue depicting the signing of the Balfour Declaration, the 1917 letter of British intent to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
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Paisley and flower power silk scarves sourced from flea markets were remade as bias-cut silk dresses and shorts with flowing pareo "skirts" at the back; sunset shade T-shirts had a shadow print of arms raised in a triangular feminist symbol; tapestry knits became coats; flared silk trousers were finished in silk fringe at the ankles; and pleated Grecian dresses were caught by leather harnesses.
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A serial image of one of her "stock company" of actors, as the artist called them — the Dildo Dancer, copied from a Grecian urn, or the Celtic fertility goddess Sheela-Na-Gig — creates a pattern that intensifies the figure's formal qualities while defusing its shock value, in effect normalizing the experiences of women — female eroticism and childbirth — that count among the most foreign to the male gaze.
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Khris, a solid role playing wing for the Bucks, the Yin to Giannis's yang, has done some wonderful work lately in threading the needle for his Grecian Freacian teammate, helping him out on that legendary skybox jam over the poor and now extremely dead Tim Hardaway Jr.: And this less heralded, still pretty good sky over poster-magnet Bismack Biyombo: Middleton's subtle skills are the perfect counterpart to Giannis's freakish overflowing on-court mania.
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As did the confusion of a collection that added many pointless flaps and straps to otherwise elegant tailoring, mixed an old newspaper comic strip ("Little Nemo in Slumberland," from 1905) with pajama suiting (for men) and Fortuny pleats (for women), threw in some gingham and potholder weaves, an old Lanvin cartoon print that apparently depicted bathers but looked like an unexpected takeoff on a Kama Sutra plate, hairy sneakers and metallic "Pharoah Loafers" (don't ask), and then culminated in lovely short Grecian gowns, glimmering with gold.
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Spread across the sections including "The Cult of the Designer" and "Fashion, Art, Luxury" are what come closest to real-life Disney princess ballgowns: a 1800-67 creation designed by Charles Frederick Worth; a scarlet evening cape by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel from 1927; a Grecian goddess-style ivory silk jersey gown circa 1945 by Madame Grès; and two Christian Dior creations from the 1950s, a black minimalist gown from Dior's famous 1955 Y-line and a pale blue ballgown adorned with pink flower buds.
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