All she was writing was 'Britney and Justin,' all these little curlicues.
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Even before I could read I knew those curves and curlicues equaled my grandma.
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A fifth grader in New Jersey is a master of curlicues and connecting loops.
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We may as well ask Apple to render the word "gun" with curlicues and flowers.
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An intricately expressive countermelody floats high into the piano's upper register, adorned with Chopinesque curlicues.
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ARTFUL WORDS: CALLIGRAPHY IN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS Scrolling vines and curlicues, from England to Ethiopia. Dec.
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Certain allusive shapes reappear: a bearish hump; repeated curlicues; double curves terminating in horizontal or vertical lines.
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"All she was writing was 'Britney and Justin,' all these little curlicues," Davis, who still has the book, remembered.
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Mischievous and sly, she speaks in dramatic curlicues, partly because she is biding her time before springing a trap.
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Where Legion's plotting is ultimately pretty simple, The Magicians keeps twisting itself into curlicues, tighter and tighter with every season.
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She wails, she shouts, she rasps, she exhorts, she fills phrases with teasing curlicues and holds pure tones endlessly aloft.
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All of it retains the delicate curlicues and arabesques of the source material, yet exudes 217st-century tough-girl panache.
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Dr. DeAntonio rocked in his office chair and twirled tufts of his hair, leaving horned curlicues jutting this way and that.
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On "All I Need," she sounds like she's singing to herself until just before the end, when she unleashes ferocious curlicues.
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More recent examples of Chihuly's signature combinations of curlicues, icicles, rods, and flowers fill the Haupt Conservatory and dot the garden's outdoor grounds.
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Tracks murmur and thrum or surge and palpitate, flush with bleary murk and melodic curlicues reminiscent of earthen atmosphere and galactic ascent alike.
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" Later, it's darkly funny when she draws the phrase "that said" with elaborate curlicues, as her father mockingly imitates her fancy "university language.
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I flipped through bundles of black-and-white Indian matrimonial headshots, the subjects' bouffants, curlicues of eyeliner and flared pants suggesting a 1960s provenance.
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Calder had been experimenting with new, abstract compositions, made of painted wood and equipped with small motors that made balls oscillate or curlicues twirl.
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I've written before about how Sonhouse has used built-up acrylic paint to mirror the sheen and dense curlicues of a real, live afro.
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At a time when curling, art nouveau curlicues were the norm, he went in the opposite direction, reducing letters to their most minimal legible form.
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It had a window leafed with gold curlicues and when you looked in the window you saw 222 shellac records, racked like drying dinner plates.
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You can tell all the little curlicues of the story that otherwise you wouldn't be able to because you couldn't cover it with a picture.
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My Hell's Kitchen neighborhood in New York is known for its ornate Victorian tenements, now beloved for the very curlicues that once won them abuse.
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The initial motions — walking, arm swinging, lying on his back — are pedestrian, though lightly decorated with snaps, claps, curlicues and hand-to-foot suggestions of folk dance.
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Partly that's because her piercing voice breaks in just the right places when her mood grows downcast, and explodes into colorful curlicues when she's enthused, or peeved.
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His trailing leg embroiders the glide with lariat-like curlicues, but what draws a viewer's eye, hypnotically, is the motor: the spiraling, snaking motion of those hips.
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Next Mazer had the fine old etched-glass saloon door with its curlicues of gold-leaf script replaced by plain steel, painted black and fitted with a judas.
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One absorbing work in gray and canary yellow, by Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, consists of eye-straining, interlocking curlicues whose hairpin turns delineate a central form and an outer background.
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Another full skirt with matching cropped jacket, like a sort of haute 1950s biker babe, was traced with curlicues of gold embroidery woven on a 19th century loom.
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For an hour or so now the music's been rigidly instrumental, just a clanking lattice of percussion and stabs, curlicues of curdled melody and flurry-punches of sub-bass.
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Van Groeningen, who wrote the script with Luke Davies, arranges the narrative in chronological curlicues, looping back and forth in time and relying heavily on extended, music-driven montages.
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In "A Defense of Cursive, From a 10-Year-Old National Champion," Tracey Tully writes: A fifth grader in New Jersey is a master of curlicues and connecting loops.
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What I like best about Mysterio is the way that Far From Home curlicues this borderline self-loathing into its themes about fake news and other manipulations of reality.
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She demonstrated her own tag, full of curlicues, arrows and a halo, then turned the canvas over to Ms. Macdonald, who approached it warily, holding a can of emerald green.
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I wandered through its mysterious, Edward Goreyish rooms: a gargantuan table filled with inky, dyed-black water, on a stone rug patterned with curlicues and dots, like scattered question marks.
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"NW," the recent BBC adaptation streaming on BritBox starting Thursday, July 13, brings a certain order to the proceedings while retaining the essence of Ms. Smith's structural curlicues and verbal somersaults.
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If some '80s experiments with drippy handprints went decidedly awry, two fine works from 2007, in which white curlicues disrupt oceans of blue, reassure that Mr. Williams has never stopped exploring.
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Visually, Waller-Bridge resembles a nineteen-forties femme fatale (soot hair, brick lips), and she often contorts her face in curlicues of amused disgust—she's like Rosalind Russell, bravado in slacks.
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In a more casual living room adjacent to the summer living room, used primarily in the warmer months, they chose a design filled with mermaids, fishermen and waves of hand-drawn curlicues.
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His letter is so jargon-strewn and reiterative and afflicted with weird curlicues of justification and decontextualized citation that it would not really read differently if whole paragraphs were moved around at random.
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"Ismael's Ghosts," Mr. Desplechin's new variation on the theme of Mathieu Amalric's incessant smoking and infrequent shaving, traces curlicues of incident around a triangle composed of Mr. Amalric, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Marion Cotillard.
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It is encrusted, heavy-handed, overworked, as if she were trying out everything on one canvas: short, long, medium brushstrokes; assertive palette knife slashes; curlicues, dabbles, stipples and swirls; grisaille and full color.
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And yet, as in Ostermeier's production of "Returning to Reims," which played at St. Ann's last year, the conceptual curlicues eventually pay off when the actors are allowed to play real scenes together.
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Most of its layers were horizontal, but a few formed curlicues or flamelike patterns called truncated flame structures, which were caused by a combination of weight from above and mini-surges in the incoming water.
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Each voodoo spirit has its own distinct symbol, she said, and the red-painted heart shares an uncanny resemblance to that of the spirit Ezili, the voodoo goddess of love, right down to its curlicues.
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If you have no idea what to do with one of these mysterious curlicues, fret not—we've got three different preparations of the baby ferns in one dish for you, and all of them are delicious.
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Couple his departure that with the show's increasingly how are they gonna get out of this—oh, they just did narrative curlicues, and even fans would have been forgiven for assuming the worst for Season 5.
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He pushed the traces of the filter that were in the original to a more extreme endpoint, finding forgotten pockets of emotion in the curlicues of his syllables as they bent and contorted in unexpected directions.
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At the given hour, we sat down to dinner -- my grandmother seated opposite me, my father and uncle at each end of the long dining room table, with curlicues of dark mahogany peeking through the lace tablecloth.
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Punctuating the string of legato scales and curlicues are staccato eighths — notes that are clearly articulated and separated from their neighbors — and he dug into each of these with bite and more than a touch of roughness.
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Crescent cookies are formed with my fingers, not perfectly, not evenly, but with pleasure — a pleasure similar to the one I feel when I twist puff pastry into long curlicues or pleat it to make elephant-ear cookies.
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It wraps adroitly around the sensuous curlicues of the "Veil Song," soaring at the top but lacking fullness lower down; the effect of her "Ô don fatal" was one of poise and determination rather than scorched-earth power.
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"Wigmaker," a kelp-like maze of lavenders, should be guarding some naiad's door, and the fiery violet and green curlicues of "Fool's Mythmaker" look as if they were lifted from Cardinal Richelieu's embroidered jacket for the Académie Française.
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Mr. Ghesquière was at romp in the fields of fashion, mixing up Belle Époque prints — swirling curlicues and Art Nouveau portraits; fecund florals; thoughts of Sarah Bernhardt and Marcel Proust — with rainbow sequin zigzag knits and lacy embroidered tulle.
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It takes connections to have your name immortalized at the factory in a font that worked well with the flowers and curlicues, as though someone had just opened a coffee shop named Karen Sue's and needed to stock up.
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The 35 "Cold Mountain Studies" here, black ink drawings made with sticks, feature lines and curlicues that dribble from the top of the paper to the bottom, like Chinese characters, yet their stark reticulations do not imitate calligraphy as such.
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When I visited, the menu offered just two small sides: slightly oversweetened cucumbers and creamy house-made tofu paired with a nicely funky century egg under curlicues of bonito flakes — an ingredient absorbed into Taiwanese cooking during half a century of Japanese occupation.
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Hanging curtain-like from a single horizontal crossbar, it is a wildly exuberant collection of incidents and effects, distinct passages grafted onto one another in a glorious profusion of blots, dots, curlicues, serpentine lines, billowing clusters of pod shapes, and slithering teardrops.
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Airbrushed atmospheres, gradients, hypnotic curlicues, industrial roller marks, thin skeins of paint, paint squeezed directly out of a tube — Benson knows that each of these techniques creates a discrete physical sensation of create ocular depth and tactility that belies the flatness of the canvas.
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So at this point, on invitations and wedding signage galore, I've seen enough intertwined initials surrounded by curlicues or signals of the couple's interests (suns, bikes, mountains, everyone is outdoorsy???), to know that creating a ~visual identity~ for one's wedding is par for the course — maybe even a requirement — these days.
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It was also believed that mastering the Palmer Method would make students better Christians, immigrants more assimilated Americans (through its "powerful hygienic effect"), "bad" children better ("the initial step in the reform of many a delinquent") and workers more industrious (because the script had fewer curlicues and strokes than Spencerian).
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As their hometown metastasized and Brasília started to rise, São Paulo artists such as Geraldo de Barros and Luiz Sacilotto painted totally abstract compositions — spiraling curlicues in the former's case, cascading black-and-white stripes in the latter's — that aimed to give form to the utopian dreams of a new Brazil.
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She draws and doodles over that pile all year long, curlicues and diamonds inked in black, so sure of herself, despite what a form says about her, that she can draw cartoons across the judgmental piece of paper, as if to say, "I am here, I am here, no matter what."
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When they got to Lansing the sun still wasn't up, and the heavy government buildings were straining to materialize out of the dark, their white limestone walls emitting an eerie iridescence while a few sad orphaned houses stood nearby, shabby and out of place, shedding shingles and curlicues of lead paint.
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Last Wednesday, Inga Davidsson of Area ID was hanging an Italian chandelier of florid amber-colored glass ribbons and curlicues tipped in red, Venetian style ($21,950) in her 315-square-foot booth: a north facing spot with a window, prime real estate that she is renting for $3,200 a month.
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That summer she sang with Mr. Clinton and his orchestra at the Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle, N.Y. "The impeccable Wain never fails to captivate us as Clinton's brassmen play natty little curlicues around her," Will Friedwald wrote in his book "Jazz Singing: America's Great Voices From Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond" (21980).
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The food is fortifying and frank in its appeal, like salchipapas, fat French fries tumbled with snaking curlicues of hot dog, and pollo a la brasa, chicken left to commune for a day with spices that Mr. Lozano won't reveal (it's his grandmother's recipe), then roasted on a spit until the skin is charred vellum.
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The food is fortifying and frank in its appeal, like salchipapas, fat French fries tumbled with snaking curlicues of hot dog, and pollo a la brasa, chicken left to commune for a day with spices that Mr. Lozano won't reveal (it's his grandmother's recipe), then roasted on a spit until the skin is charred vellum.
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The effect doesn't play out the way it usually does — other creators find themselves padding to fill a serialized Netflix season, while with "Disenchantment" it feels as if Mr. Groening and his writers and artists are holding themselves back, resisting the impulse to pack in more gags and visual curlicues that might interfere with the story.
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The extra curlicues of Barclays weirdness—I found a Meditation Room, which featured messages of brotherhood on the walls, a tiny CD boombox, and a small rock fountain that was not in operation—all point in the same direction, which is away from the basketball court and back towards some sort of smooth and self-replicating Basketball Experience.
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Netflix's version, which covers the first four books, preserves some of the 2004 film's style (a blend of Tim Burton gloom and Amélie twinkle) but has the advantage of being able to indulge in seemingly endless twists and curlicues over its eight episodes, which include numerous intrusions by Patrick Warburton as a mournfully deadpan narrator who is none other than Mr. Snicket.
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The duo of John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman is unlike other radio broadcasts in the sense that where one team might employ a wild card—a play-by-play man prone to curlicues or puns or narcolepsy, say, or a benignly sozzled ex-player given to MC Escher-esque digression—the Yankees employ two of the most relentlessly, intensely weird broadcasters in the sport, at the same time.
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Eventually, they landed on Timbuktu and Koro, a pair of patterns whose geometric shapes were inspired by the jutting silhouettes of Malian mosques, as well as two finely engraved rotary prints: Regency Swirl, which evokes the curlicues of wrought-iron fencing, and Stencil Leaf, whose densely packed fronds pay homage to the sprawling topiary at the Arts and Crafts-style garden of Hidcote Manor in Gloucestershire, England, close to where Lytle grew up.
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Later forms were more complex and highly varied, including scrolls and curlicues, heart shapes, and even plant motifs.
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The WILG logo was redesigned in 2009 by Clare Bayley '11, consisting of a large ornamental "W" used as an identifier. The font choice was inspired by serif font faces, with purple curlicues wrapped around the outer edge of the dark bronze letter.
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Emma Elizabeth Clark (born 15 October 1955) is a British children's book illustrator and author. She has published over 60 books and is best known for her series of picture books about a child's toy called Blue Kangaroo.Joanna Carey, Croc on ice (with curlicues), The Guardian, 17 December 2005.
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2009 in Pop – Reggae and Rock Operas, Intimacies and Anthems. The New York Times. Retrieved on 2010-05-03. Robert Christgau was less enthusiastic, writing in MSN Music that Maxwell "really believes that the quality of the sex is measured by its curlicues—and by how long it takes to come true"; he named "Badhabits" and "Helpsomebody" as the album's highlights.
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Type III, also dating to the 4th century, has a foot that is longer than the bow. There are several variants of the Type III based on the decoration of the foot: dotted circles, chevrons, or curlicues. Another variant, dating to the 4th and 5th centuries, the Bugelkopf type, has no transverse bar, or arms at all but retains the round knob at the head.
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As is usual for Euphronios, the pictorial scene is framed by twisting curlicues. The painting itself is a classic example of the painter's work: strong, dynamic, detailed, anatomically accurate and with a strong hint of pathos. Both artists appear to have been aware of the quality of their work, as both painter and potter signed it. The krater is the only work by Euphronios to have survived in its entirety.
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Fred Hembeck (born January 30, 1953) is an American cartoonist best known for his parodies of characters from major American comic book publishers. His work has frequently been published by the firms whose characters he spoofs. His characters are always drawn with curlicues at the elbows and knees. He often portrays himself as a character in his own work, in the role of "interviewer" of various comic book characters.
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Marine themes are particularly common, including depictions of dugongs (duyong), usually with a person riding on its back. The three most common okil motifs used by the Muslim Sama are dauan-dauan (leaf motifs), kaloon (curlicues and curved lines), and agta-agta or buaya (fish or crocodile motifs). Nevertheless, Sama okil share some common motifs with okir. The Maranao naga (sea serpent) figure is believed to be related to the Sama agta- agta motifs.
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In Gann's description, piano works composed by Ornstein in his eighties, such as Solitude and Rendezvous at the Lake, featured melodies that "sprang through endless ornate curlicues that brought no other composer to mind." In 1988, the ninety-two-year-old Ornstein wrote his Seventh Piano Sonata. With this composition Ornstein became, by a couple of years, the oldest published composer, until Elliott Carter, ever to produce a substantial new work.Broyles (2004), p.
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Whitman's produced the first pre- packaged candy in 1854—a box of sugar plums adorned with curlicues and rosebuds. Whitman began advertising in newspapers shortly before the beginning of the Civil War and the business grew so large that in 1866 the company occupied an entire building at 12th and Market Streets in Philadelphia. In 1877, he introduced Instantaneous Chocolates in tin boxes that became much- admired. Whitman's would later be known as Stephen F. Whitman & Son, Inc.
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Rodgers' yodeling refrains are integral to the blue yodel songs. His vocal ornamentation has been described as "that famous blue yodel that defies the rational and conjecturing mind".Liner Notes by Bob Dylan, The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers album, released 19 August 1997 (Egyptian Records label) (from) 'Jimmie Rodgers', "The Bob Dylan Who's Who" website. Rodgers viewed his yodeling as little more than a vocal flourish; he described them as "curlicues I can make with my throat".
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The main backbone pipe of his designs are about 12 cm in diameter and they use straight pipes exclusively, avoiding the "bends and curlicues"L. J. K. Setright in "Bike" magazine issue #1 of frames such as the Norton Featherbed. Egli-framed motorcycles have an enthusiastic following which meets annually. Egli influenced other frame builders who went on to build their own 'straight-tube' frames, including the Healey brothers whose Healey 1000/4 motorcycle comprised an uprated Ariel Square Four engine within an Egli-type frame.
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Condit said that the episode deviates too highly from King's original story, and the changes only make the story worse. Brian Pope of DVD Verdict rated it a B+ and said that Macy's performance was worthy of an Emmy. Christopher Noseck of DVD Talk said that the episode is "not completely satisfying" but is the best of the episodes on that disc. Virginia Heffernan of The New York Times called it "a gonzo noir special with some postmodern curlicues" that emphasizes class issues common to King's work.
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The porch floor is decorated with curlicues. The tower of the church, almost 27 meters high at the western end of the portico is divided into three sections: entrance porch, bell tower and level landing, upon which stands a pavilion topped by an octagonal chamfered cupola. Many of the same decorative motifs appear on the inside as on the exterior fascia; the pilasters of the arcs have the same capitals, and grooved fascia board frames. On the walls of the chapel also appears a ledge, beautifully decorated.
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The major influence on this aspect of her work was Reynolds Stone, whom she described as the great master of engraved bookplates and engraved lettering, not just for this century, but for all time.Diana Bloomfield, 'A Fearful Joy' in Private Library (Spring 1974), published by the Private Libraries Association. Her bookplates rely on the flourishes and curlicues of Stone and Leo Wyatt rather than the classic simplicity and elegance of Eric Gill, Johnston and Philip Hagreen. Bloomfield did produce wood engravings for some books.
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These designs included rosettes, stars, crosses, and other elaborate curlicues. The building blocks for special figures included not only the elements of the standard compulsory figures, but shapes known as beaks, spectacles, and cross-cuts. Tracing of elaborate patterns on the ice was a characteristic of the American and British schools of figure skating. By the early 20th century, this had been largely displaced by the "International Style" of free skating which utilized the entire ice surface and featured more athletic movements set to music.
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" Yahoo! Music also gave the album a mixed review when they reviewed it, commenting, "JoJo is mercilessly multi-tracked a la J.Lo, her voice encoded flatteringly as she too-many-notes her way through a succession of R'n'B beats and hooks that owe everything to studio wizardry and little to simple songwriting. Inevitably, she's 'Not That Kinda Girl' and boys 'make me happy' but friends are where it's at. In short, she only has as much to say as the Spice Girls' 'Wannabe', but does so across 14 largely forgettable tracks of scales and curlicues that make Mariah sound restrained.
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After "Cry to Me", Burke became one of the first performers to be called a soul artist.Jeff Wallenfeldt, ed., The Black Experience in America: From Civil Rights to the Present (The Rosen Publishing Group, 2010):127. In "Cry to Me", and in his "most popular recordings from 1962 onward, elements of the African-American folk-preaching style", which incorporated "the fusion of speech and song", "the use of repetition or elongation for emphasis", and the improvisation of "hollers and vocal melismas", the "flowers and curlicues of gospel singing",Arnold Shaw, Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues, 2nd ed.
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The design of the Fosse Ardeatine monument resulted from a national competition and was a collaboration between five architects (Nello Aprile, Cino Calcaprina, Aldo Cardelli, Mario Fiorentino & Giuseppe Perugini) and two sculptors (Francesco Coccia & Mirko Basaldella). The massive bronze gate by Mirko Basaldella used the ubiquitous barbed wire of battle fields and concentration camps as inspiration, merging it with the moving curlicues of a Tree of Life. The curved lines morph into a tangle of limbs reaching out across each other at those awkwardly bent angles characteristic of corpses. Also at the entrance is a colossal concrete statue by Francesco Coccia of three male figures standing together as one.
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Fred Neher's Life's Like That (October 13, 1952). Caption: "It's from Adam's Bootery... I tried on my one millionth pair of shoes there this afternoon." Neher stopped doing the Life's Like That Sunday half-page in October 1972, and he retired five years later, devoting his energy to playing golf, raising roses and growing tomatoes. When he died at age 98 in Boulder, Colorado in 2001, Owen S. Good wrote in the Rocky Mountain News: :He is survived by pot-bellied businessmen, henpecked husbands, worldly-wise goldfish and babies with thin curlicues of hair, all actors in the everyday comedies he staged on the funny pages.
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Louis McKee (born July 31, 1951, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died November 21, 2011) was an American poet and a fixture of the Philadelphia poetry scene from the early 1970s. He was the author of Schuylkill County (Wampeter, 1982), The True Speed of Things (Slash and Burn, 1984), and fourteen other collections. More recently, he published River Architecture: Poems from Here & There 1973-1993 (Cynic, 1999), Loose Change (Marsh River Editions, 2001), and a volume in the Pudding House Greatest Hits series. Gerald Stern called his work “heart-breaking” and “necessary,” while William Stafford has written, “Louis McKee makes me think of how much fun it was to put your hand out a car window and make the air carry you into quick adventures and curlicues.
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Their typographic work often added elaborate variations to base fonts, which included winding, branching curlicues and interwoven illustrative elements; Karen Sottosanti described their typical design work as "type made of stars or flowers that exploded into negative space [and] type that merged with images of tree branches or birds.".; . David Jury praised Non-Format's designs, writing that the magazine "retained an identity all its own through its creative use of experimental headline fonts, white space and excellent photography." Noteworthy examples of Non-Format's cover art include the July 2004 issue, which portrayed the composer Alvin Lucier using brainwaves he had recorded with electrodes at a concert, and the December 2004 issue "In Praise of the Riff", which placed repetitive black lines across the cover and pushed the logo to the bottom right, halfway off the page.
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The top has a notable protrusion, mainly of light blue glass, which then develops into shades of yellow and green as the viewer's eye moves downwards. Detail of the chandelier The first chandelier was installed in 1999 and was more modest, however, Chihuly decided it needed to be bigger and enlarged it so that it now fills the central rotunda at the entrance to the museum. Commenting in The Daily Telegraph, art critic Richard Dorment noted: "The V&A; chandelier isn't exactly 'finished' – Chihuly just stopped adding baubles and curlicues and wiggly bits to it. Because its shape is so amorphous, there is no aesthetic reason that I can see why the glass-maker should not continue to ornament the work for the rest of his life, or for as long as the laws of physics allow him to".
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" Heats Karen Edwards awarded the album five stars out of five, saying "From girlie pop to big ballads, this album will remind you what the fuss is all about. Future X Factor winners take note: this is what real talent sounds like." On the other hand, some reviews were harsh, Entertainment Weekly said that "Too much of "Echo" is mired in soppy balladry and standard-issue dancery" adding that "When it works, however, as on the soaring Happy and feathery, synth-laden I Got You, all is (momentarily) redeemed". The Guardian said that "Echo's 13 tracks, which were co-written by Justin Timberlake, OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder and other costly names, follow the formula of her debut: the slow, piano-accented build-up, punctuated by sharp intakes of breath and vocal curlicues, then the climactic explosion as the drums crash in and she hits the chorus.
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Soul of a Woman received favorable reviews, with many writers acknowledging the hopeful tone of the lyrics and the strength of Jones' performance, belying the weakened state of her health at the time of recording. For example, the New York Times noted that Jones "sounds anything but fragile... She wails, she shouts, she rasps, she exhorts, she fills phrases with teasing curlicues and holds pure tones endlessly aloft." American Songwriter called the album a "moving soul explosion that stands as one of the finest in her limited yet extraordinary catalog." AllMusic noted that Jones was "at the top of her game here, with her voice in fine shape and her phrasing and delivery on point, finding the right emotional details in the songs and working beautifully with the musicians, delivering powerful work on every cut," while also praising the musical performance by the Dap-Kings.
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