" - Mike, 323 "Yellowed Masonic magazines from the 1920s.
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Flaps of yellowed skin hung off it, like peeling sunburn.
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They were wrapped head to toe in yellowed, ragged cloth.
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At its ends, the plastic handle was transparent, albeit yellowed.
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"Here it is," he said, carefully turning the yellowed pages.
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I still have that original Game Boy, now yellowed and battered.
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The primroses yellowed up in the woods and along the road.
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Has the knowledge in them also aged, like their yellowed pages?
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The doctor inspected his swollen abdomen and studied his yellowed eyes.
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My Keats volumes aren't gold-bound; they're yellowed and embarrassingly underlined.
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My Keats volumes aren't gold-bound; they're yellowed and embarrassingly underlined.
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On the table in front of her are 54 yellowed pages.
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Her face was yellowed, and froth drips from her parted mouth.
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Yellowed pages and shelves fashioned from driftwood give off a musty smell.
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Her hands are yellowed and callused from years of gripping oar handles.
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As he did, as he crossed the yellowed grass, sadness filled him.
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" She wrote in the margins of the yellowed clippings, "Did it hurt?
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Yellowed articles on his office wall show him during a sit-in.
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As a kid, he poured through yellowed pages of Stephen Hawking books.
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"I recognize that," Anušauskaitė said, pointing at a yellowed piece of paper.
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His skin tone had yellowed, and his stomach was distended, Norcross recalled.
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Inside were yellowed, but intact, scrapbooks of human hair and animal fur.
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When they laughed, they threw their heads back to reveal crooked, yellowed teeth.
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Their pages have tattered and yellowed, but the Thompsons refer to them regularly.
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The garment is mostly white, but now has yellowed spots in several places.
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They were knobbed with arthritis, yellowed with jaundice; already the hands of a corpse.
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"Is this healing?" asks Woods' disembodied voice over a yellowed backdrop of midwestern farmland.
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In turn, they are crammed with dusty files and yellowed correspondence from another century.
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She opened a drawer and got out a notebook—yellowed pages, smudged blue ink.
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It, too, was forged, embellished with aged, yellowed tape, artful tears and typing errors.
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I look at those old, yellowed pictures now, 72 years after they were taken.
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What he saw was its first yellowed page, the edges rounded by much use.
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In her hands, she held a yellowed letter from the city, dated July 1978.
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My white button-downs are a holey, yellowed mess long before they lose a button.
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In a filing cabinet, Baumann discovered a row of manila folders bursting with yellowed newsclips.
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The reception area was a feast of chipped marble, faded red carpets and yellowed chandeliers.
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Straw, feathers, matted tufts of yellowed wool, are strewn across the room like some barnyard massacre.
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Each month had a picture of a different fighter plane—a sleek machine, yellowed by time.
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A yellowed file copy from the Bresnic retrial refers to Spota's "pecuniary interest" in trying cases.
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In classic mythology, the Wendigo is extremely tall, has glowing eyes, yellowed fangs, and a long tongue.
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He dug through mountains of yellowed colonial-era records that had never before been collated and digitised.
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My favorite return attempt was a moldy, yellowed Bee-Gees coloring book that had been scribbled in.
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They are two thick, cardboard-bound books, their pages yellowed with age, their covers cracked and peeling.
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And in fact, your yellowed, drooping, dried plant friend might not be as dead as you fear.
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I ran my fingers through the high yellowed grasses, relishing the open space and these architectural formations.
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His nuanced, textural paintings and sculptures are literally multilayered; words on yellowed pages peek out beneath the paint.
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It's a yellowed scrap of newsprint in the Alan Mason Chesney Archives at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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Over the decades, the tape has yellowed and has now become an active design element in the work.
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And in that medallion, home-typed on a narrow, yellowed strip of paper, was a still-legible name.
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The illustration has two "registration marks applied with sticky tape that has yellowed with age," the FBI noted.
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For deep stains and/or for teeth that are yellowed or otherwise discolored, professional whitening is probably necessary.
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Here and there, the gleaming surfaces are faintly yellowed by cigarette smoke and the residue of cooking oil.
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Hundreds, maybe thousands, of dollar bills, many yellowed by smoke from the years before the bar banned smoking.
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But the team's legacy was fading away, like a yellowed newspaper clipping or a piece of grainy television footage.
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As we drove in Cullom's truck across his property, he pointed to the treetops, where the leaves were yellowed.
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It uses simple colored blocks and figures against age-yellowed parchment backdrop to evoke old Civil War era battle maps.
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It's the one I read in my high school English class, the pages yellowed, the margins filled with scribbled notes.
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There, in one of the acid-free boxes, lay a sheaf of yellowed correspondence between Bill Bowerman and … Bill Knight.
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I've spent hundreds of afternoons burrowing deep into cyberspace and perusing yellowed news clippings from The Times's historical archive, a.k.a.
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At the table in his office, he flipped through a blue three-ring binder stuffed with sheets of yellowed paper.
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Across town, on the yellowed grass outside the federal immigration building, a few activists had arrived to show their support.
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One of the most telling documents might be a yellowed, four-page psychiatric evaluation from 1960 about Mr. Paddock's father.
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He neglected showers and haircuts; jaundice yellowed his eyes; his skin became saggy and discolored, as if it were rotting.
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In it were century-old claws that belonged to one of the lions, yellowed and smooth like pieces of ivory.
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It was yellowed, some kind of yellow I'd never seen before, an irregular jaundiced chartreuse like a bruise trying to heal.
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A woman named Nancy Carlson bought a yellowed bag that made it to the surface of the moon during Apollo 11.
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They were shot at night by the artist Valentin Jeck, with dramatic lighting accentuating the building's stained surface and yellowed glass.
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And a growing number of them are turning to experts to help glean what they can from cryptic, yellowed military records.
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He tracks down vintage court transcripts, old property deeds, marriage licenses, handwriting tests, yellowed police records, ex-husbands of former roommates.
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It turns out he loves photographs, which he keeps in yellowed albums where snapshots show slender young men smiling or strutting.
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Growing up in Croatia, she developed a passion for losing herself in piles of books and yellowed manuscripts, hoping to be surprised.
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The accounting ledgers for the firm's models were listed on hundreds of pages of continuously fed paper that appeared yellowed with age.
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Prolonged and expansive heat waves have altered daily life in Europe, causing train cancellations and transforming typically verdant terrain into yellowed lands.
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Soon they will be crippled relics in homes and memories, photos on a dusty mantel or side table with a yellowed doily.
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I recommend a specialty product, Engleside Restoration, for badly yellowed, very delicate or especially old items like wedding dresses or vintage linens.
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" 'Black, blotchy mold' in some water-damaged cells One inmate showed Torres "a very dingy, yellowed blanket that is obviously water damaged.
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With a perfectly manicured blue nail, she points to one of the largest images: a slightly yellowed advertisement for Casino Royale from 1967.
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The usual verdant grasses surrounding Buckingham Palace and much of the British Open's 176-year-old Carnoustie golf course have yellowed since May.
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The seats inside had been replaced by stacks of wooden crates, plastic bins, and battered drawers, all filled with bundles of yellowed newspaper.
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A dozen people were seated beneath a copy of George Washington's yellowed parchment commission naming him commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
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To me, it seems pretty simple that some of these regulations that were imposed as early as 1975 have become yellowed with age.
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You're going to need to prune those yellowed and dried leaves, and Carter recommends that you wipe your leaves down regularly to boot.
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Lucas's "Chuffing Away to Oblivion" (1996) is a smoking shed, yellowed as if with decades of nicotine and lined with lurid tabloid newspapers.
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A sheet of Bach was still on the piano's stand, the pages yellowed, but the bars and the notes were clear and dark.
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But now, amid the charred, empty spaces that scar northern California's winegrowing region, under skies yellowed by smoke, Goldschmidt has a race to win.
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She pulled a thin, yellowed soft covered book from her shelves, and flipped through the pages until she found what she was looking for.
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He was alarmed when his urine turned a dark color and his eyes and skin yellowed, both signs of hepatitis, according to the report.
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"He didn't do anything, why are you harassing him?" the father, who was smaller than his son and wore a yellowed tank top, demanded.
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Nearby, there's a massive, Medieval book, leather-bound and yellowed with age; upon closer inspection, every page is an interactive screen depicting poisonous plants.
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They contained thousands of mostly unlabeled four-by-five-inch negatives in yellowed sleeves, photographs documenting life inside the prison from the 1930s to '80s.
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Images from black history, drawn from old negatives, have long been buried in the yellowed envelopes and crowded bins of the New York Times archives.
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The best spots are often tucked away on cobblestone side streets with menus on worn, yellowed paper, and can be a squeeze to get into.
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Before his third and final hospitalization, family members and neighbors said, he was seen coming out of his house with jaundiced, yellowed skin -- another sign.
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The materials used by the artist, however—oil and resins—have irreversibly yellowed over time, and continue to lend a golden tonality to the artwork.
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So my children are strict about traditions, but like many families, we got to make up our own traditions, from yellowed clippings to appropriated hymns.
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A highlight is the inclusion of "Prepared Piano" (1962-3); in its current state, yellowed keys are sheathed under protective glass, seeming austere and aged.
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His office, which is responsible for maintaining local land records, is full of yellowed, time-worn books of property deeds, along with some digitised documents.
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She had yearned to own a house with a priest hole—or an attic, at least, with a trunk full of yellowed letters and long dresses.
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Smaller, more understated works in black-and-white evoke fossils, and stacks of jaggedly chopped, yellowed pages start to look like the lumber they came from.
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A sheet of yellowed fiberglass has been attached to the four sides of frame's top, like a tablecloth that sags because it has no table beneath it.
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Before his third and final hospitalization, family members and neighbors said, he was seen coming out of his house with jaundiced, yellowed skin -- another sign of leptospirosis.
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This strange, surprising story evokes that hidden life, in the smells of old typewriters, tools and photographs, and the feel of yellowed newspapers crumbling in your hand.
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I took the yellowed letters and cards home and read through them carefully, as if attempting to crack the code to a long-ago encrypted military transmission.
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Eurogamer also says that the device will run on an Nvidia Tegra chip and will use cartridges like that yellowed SNES game at the bottom of your closet.
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Looking for material for a monologue competition, he came across a yellowed anthology of work from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, his gateway to Latino writers like Miguel Piñero.
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Well, not always… JG: You recall how later in life he wrote an unpublished memoir, on yellowed typewriter paper, that he called From One Accident to the Next.
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They tottered past in the reading rooms, arms piled with leather-bound volumes, or sat hunched over handwritten documents, the pages yellowed by the acid in their fibres.
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It was dark and damp underneath, but I could see a bundle of bedding—and a long foot with yellowed nails, covered with flies, protruding from underneath the pile.
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The next morning they've moved the command center further away from the hole, beside a black train idling on the line, yellowed by molten sulfur with nowhere to go.
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The yellowed fiberglass shares something with the yellow base, while the sanded Plexiglas and silvery shine of the steel pipes bring other tonalities and intensities of light into play.
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However, Langle, along with other experts, felt the conservators had gone too far in removing the various layers of yellowed varnish, eliminating or modifying original aspects of the painting.
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So I began my solo adventure with goat soup, a $5 bowl of shredded red meat bobbing in a broth yellowed by turmeric, and bold with cardamom and cilantro.
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The oversized format and fake-yellowed pages transport you to the joy of childhood comic reading and it's exciting to see the foundation of hip-hop culture being cemented.
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So, feel free to use that yellowed copy of the paper currently acting as wrapping for breakable objects in your attic — or use one hot off the presses this week.
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Withdrawing the latter and emptying its contents yields a bundle of yellowed and brittle newspaper articles, each one neatly trimmed at the margins and labeled with notes and filing markings.
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I met him at his house, and we spent an afternoon poring over faded photographs, yellowed newspaper clippings, and memorabilia that filled his living-room cabinets and hung from his walls.
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Whatever the public debate, the "We Shall Overcome" and "This Land" cases will most likely be decided on the basis of technicalities in the yellowed paper trail of old copyright registrations.
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Instead of ripping out the old cabinets and installing new ones, Ms. DiCarlo exchanged the cabinet fronts "that had yellowed and chipped over the years" for recessed-panel doors lacquered white.
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Sometimes, if I craned my neck out my bedroom window, I could even see the steeple — a rusted cross perched atop an enclosed pantheon of 1950's stained glass and yellowed buttresses.
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And so there I was, in the familiar darkness of another rabbit hole, breathing in the book's dust mites, when I found a small snapshot tucked between yellowed Pages 694 and 695.
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Meanwhile, Gillian shuddered at the bathroom's dubious flecks and stains and gritty surfaces, the yellowed toilet brush clogged with paper, the packets of laxatives and Tena lady pads out on unapologetic show.
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I've had the same SNES since I was a kid — it's all beat to hell, pieces missing off the back, bite marks on the controllers, and yellowed with age, and of course filthy.
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In the office, various tabloid clippings taped to the walls feature a trademark red slash over the item that he landed that day: the older clippings yellowed, the more recent ones still gray.
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One afternoon, I found Liang hunched over his office desk, flipping through a yellowed, dog-eared copy of the Chinese criminal-procedure law, hoping to find a new way forward on Xie's case.
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Through doodled-on postcards, typed letters with uneven leading on yellowed stationery, and song sheets, we encounter a Constance who is the older and more daring half of a sister song-and-dance act.
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You can spin and rotate the view, looking to your left to see the past in its pastel glory and to your right to see everything yellowed and faded, boarded up and falling down.
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That night, instead of tuning in to an episode of "Wild Kingdom," Mr. Mays's father reached for a book from the shelf, a yellowed volume of Charles Dickens stories and read the tale aloud.
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To some, Toronto's Galleria Mall is a "time warp"—a memory cave made of stucco and yellowed tile, a baseball card vending machine, and run-down rides shaped like speedboats and video game characters.
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"We can see how harmful salt is: the oranges become much smaller, the trees dry out, the leaves are tired and yellowed," said the 55-year-old, who owns five hectares of orange trees.
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"Bar & Grill" has been dropped from the name, but the dining room, with its yellowed parchment-colored walls and pleated-parachute light fixtures, looks exactly the same, except quite a bit worse for wear.
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In the painting, there are yellow patches on the glossy white suit, probably due, Skopek told me, to a previous restorer's application of a glue that was originally clear but had yellowed with time.
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Patton has been an enthusiastic champion of the president on social media, posting a yellowed newspaper report Thursday of a youthful Trump leaping from his limo to stop a bat-wielding mugger in his tracks.
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The yellowed papers are being described by auctioneers Henry and Andrew Aldridge as "a fabulous piece of show business history," that will be made available in the United Kingdom on Saturday, according to Fox News.
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I could hear him laugh the way he would when it would sound almost like a hiccup at the end; his teeth, slightly yellowed from years of smoking, showing, gleaming; his bad knee slightly awry.
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Our polymathic morgue custodian, Jeff Roth, who presides over tens of thousands of drawers of old photographs and yellowed, crumbling clippings, all the stock-in-trade of the obituary writer's work, was interviewed in situ.
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My father listened attentively but looked skeptical as we picked our way among the dusty paths and walkways, the giant inward-sloping walls, the heaps of gray stones rising out of patches of yellowed grass.
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By the time you get around to seeing this, you realize that the lavish attention Murphy has paid to the pages' yellowed edges has become just one of the painting's entrancing and anxiety-inducing details.
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This quality of incompleteness — of flux — is present in multiple works; in some, pieces of yellowed paper are tagged onto the white surface of painted wood; in others, the wood shows through the white paint.
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The yellowed box scores between these two programs include plenty of defensive standoffs, and Tuesday night fits snugly in that category, both sides struggling to lift their shooting accuracy above the meager 30 percent mark.
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Kennedy in bed waiting for them," according to some yellowed clips in The Washington Post morgue, "wearing a gray tweed coat over her pastel nightgown and a pair of thick white wool sox on her feet.
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"Each picture serves as an homage calling out palpable echoes etched into the pages by a margin-scrawled note, a yellowed coffee splatter or sticky peanut butter and jelly fingerprints," writes Mansfield in a book essay.
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Hanging above the entrance is a pair of Houdini's handcuffs — he once escaped from manacles after being thrown in the East River — and behind the counter is a frame containing yellowed, typewritten letters signed by the conjurer.
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The suit included developments like the last-minute discovery of a yellowed songbook from 1922, which the plaintiffs' lawyers called "a proverbial smoking gun" because it included a version of the popular birthday song without proper copyright notice.
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But a new wave of point-and-click titles are challenging the idea that adventure and narrative games are strictly retro genres, exclusively destined to appeal to old-timers who still get misty eyed remembering their yellowed Amigas.
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On the corner of the table sat what Professor Kamensky called the major literary "fetish object" of the collection: a yellowed typescript of Professor Davis's 1974 autobiography, complete with neatly handwritten queries and comments from her editor, Toni Morrison.
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A small wooden box sitting on a high shelf contains talismans from the home he left behind: paperback cookbooks, their pages now yellowed and disintegrating, that he borrowed from his mother, along with his grandmother's recipes scribbled on notepads.
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He has tousled yellowed-pewter hair combed forward in a mature Noel Gallagher style and wore a baggy striped dress shirt that persisted in coming untucked, and oval eyeglasses that slid down to the tip of a prominent nose.
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Day 21993 found him posting a crumbling, yellowed paperback copy of "The Velvet Underground," a 203 investigation into "aberrant behavior" among consenting adults, an image he accessorized with an assortment of sex toys that looked like they would hurt.
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It was an antique book you've taken off the shelf at some bookstore with creaky wooden floors, all worn leather and crackly yellowed pages and the kind of writing you wish were still in fashion, but enveloped in warm butterscotch.
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"I think I'm providing an opportunity for people to cherish it and enjoy it where it would've went into hibernation," Craig, 59, said next to a display in a Manhattan conference room that included his scuffed skates and yellowed goalie mask.
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Just as Reb Berish began to recite the Thirteen Principles of Faith, Melnik entered the room: a little man whose face was yellowed as if by jaundice and whose head bore only a few stray strands of black and gray hair.
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During the Civil War, their enslaved housekeeper Selina Norris Gray protected the tent fabric and other Washington artifacts from Union soldiers looting Lee's home in Arlington, Va. Pieces of the yellowed linen tent were eventually separated and scattered as souvenirs.
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Collector Wade Jones put up the yellowed cup for auction on eBay, along with a letter of authenticity and a "notebook full of 'research' that had been collected related to the events surrounding the cup," like photos of Elvis holding it.
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The yellowed, tattered letters — in Yiddish, Polish and German, some with Hitler stamps and inky Z's indicating that they had been censored — offered intimate if doleful glimpses of the disintegration of Jewish life before and during World War II in Mrs.
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If so, one of the most telling documents might be a yellowed, four-page psychiatric evaluation from 1960 that details the father who raised Stephen Paddock until he was 19603 and who loomed over the family even after he disappeared.
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After the hearing ended, Dean was still standing at the witness table, posing for pictures with his fans and signing autographs, including a yellowed front page of a 45-year old copy of The Washington Post published when Nixon resigned.
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The photo inspired an informal network of volunteer sleuths to track down survivors of the battle, pore over forgotten maps and comb through yellowed files until they had traced Private Mulligan's likely remains to a burial plot under a marble cross in Manila.
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The plants were found lying like a burial shroud A team of archaeologists, led by Hongen Jiang with the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, discovered 13 marijuana plants that were still largely intact, if yellowed and desiccated after millennia underground.
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Each of us carried a copy of "Netter's Anatomy"; by the end of three months in the lab, the volume would become chemically yellowed by formaldehyde, and to leaf through the tawny, crackling pages would be to feel your fingers becoming slowly embalmed.
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A yellowed and drooping mask of Hermes, part of the separate six-box "Explanation," could serve as an indictment of the insularity of white art history, and an intricately bumpy cantaloupe as a way of isolating a beautiful texture from distracting color.
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His studio is a conjurer's den: shelves of cloudy handblown bottles filled with powdered pigments, each tone subtly different and marked with a yellowed label; racks of wooden-handled brushes with bristles made from rat's tail fur and the hair of pearl divers.
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The average Amy Sedaris Instagram post is morbidly compelling in the same way as a yellowed photo that might accompany a recipe for some very unappetizing 1970s-era hors d'oeuvre: You don't really want to eat it, but you can't stop looking at it.
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SOMEWHERE, PERHAPS on a great-aunt's Thanksgiving table, or in the drawer of a rattan nightstand in that cottage you rented on the Cape or in a yellowed photo from an advertising supplement that an Etsy find came wrapped in, you have seen it.
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So, even as a fatty piece of brisket melted in my mouth, and even as the yellowed, AM-radio country jaunted through the Sonos system, there was never any doubt that I was in New York, surrounded by people living their New York life.
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Either way, all the writers start from scratch with their sources, calling friends and family caught in the midst of funeral planning, scanning yellowed clippings from the paper's "morgue" archives, and acting as their own fact checkers in the race against the evening's deadline.
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Because no matter how dog-eared, yellowed, or creased, sometimes a photograph — of a sumptuous red in a bricked up wall, or the warm glint of light in a river's crook — amplifies the familiar, so much so that you can live in the photographer's moment of making.
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Wherever the name had been found—printed on the spines of books that held its stories, in the old, yellowed ledgers of merchants who'd bought its goods, and woven into the memories of anyone who'd ever heard it— it was simply erased, and Weep was left in its place.
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I've watched countless videos on how to clean up the plastics on old video game consoles that have yellowed over the years, but Odd Tinkering goes so much further in this 15-minute video that condenses over 20 hours of detailed disassembling, scraping, soaking, scrubbing, and cleanup work.
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In the field between us:a softer season — summermaybe, early, when the grasshas grown waist high but not yet yellowed from the heat — in the rubble of a fallen bridge,in all the weeds and dandelion down, we've made a place wedidn't need to call a house to feelat home.
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The clues have come from a range of sources: tattered diaries and journals left by trappers and pioneers, yellowed maps made by the first Spanish explorers and survey crews, early aerial photos and narratives recorded a century ago from native people who once lived there, and even pollen deposits and tree rings.
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At the end of the script in Sarah Ruhl's "For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday," photographs suddenly appear: a young woman in a Peter Pan costume; that same woman on a yellowed poster for an Iowa children's theater production of "Peter Pan"; a shot of her beaming beside Mary Martin, who played the same role.
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Located in the Wynwood neighborhood, now a trendy arts district and home to the Rubells' 40,1980-square-foot museum for the last two decades, the crowded warehouse where Young lived and worked brimmed with more than 3,000 paintings on slabs of wood, scraps of cardboard, unhinged doors, yellowed ledger books, and any other material the artist could repurpose from his urban bicycle trips.
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This urge to count, to tick off boxes and keep track, seemed part of what drove the members of the Circumnavigators Club: like philatelists or numismatists adding to their collections, but instead of stamps or coins, their quarry consisted of canceled visas and ticket stubs, digital photographs on camelback or yellowed Polaroids of themselves standing in the prows of ships.
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Early on, when we see teenage Chan Hock Chye caught up in Singapore's 1954 National Service protests, the narrative is abruptly supplanted by an excerpt from a story he published around that time, "Ah Huat's Giant Robot" — supposedly a fantasy inspired by the young artist's experiences, but also a parody of Osamu Tezuka's early comics (complete with yellowed newsprint textures and typeset English lettering).
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Bujar surprises himself by telling Tanja his real name and, eventually, a more or less true version of his past, offering us one of our only glimpses of his first years in Italy: They decided when we ate and what we ate and when we had showers, and we were given strange people's clothes to wear, shoes with someone else's sweat in them, shirts yellowed at the armpits and trousers ripped at the crotch, and like prisoners we were allocated an area we were allowed to use, and the most laughable part of it is that, despite all this, I wanted nothing more than to be an Italian, I wished that by putting on their clothes I would change and become them, that the smell of the clothes I was given would become my scent, too, though all the while I hated them with all my heart.
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