At low tide, its roots emerge — tall and spindly.
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The boy had long spindly legs and thick brown hair.
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The sculptures hover, suspend, or sway on spindly foam legs.
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They use a spindly, antique version of the Hebrew script.
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A spindly woman with silver curls crosses a rocky shore.
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Mr. Cummings, a spindly, socially diffident, unsmiling figure, spoke next.
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He was arrogant, prone to trouble, but had a spindly frame.
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That's how it can stay upright on such relatively spindly legs.
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Plus, these spindly shapes make eating veggies a lot more fun.
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Visitors must negotiate their way between its spindly legs to enter.
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He put up a spindly, foot-high Christmas tree, nicely decorated.
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The spindly guitars sound like they could decompose at any second.
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A dark portal opens, and out of it rises a spindly nightmare.
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It's spindly, that diagonal piece leading up to the saucer section, vulnerable.
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He always ran ahead, panting heavily, but my spindly legs kept up.
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Chris and I really did a lot of cool, spindly guitar-work.
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Bol Bol has the spindly frame that helped make his father famous.
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At certain angles, the spindly legs of Giacometti's figures look like prison bars.
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When, in Lear's madness, she takes off her trousers, she reveals spindly thighs.
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Bratz dolls have swollen heads, pouty lips, spindly limbs, and chunky-heeled shoes.
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The spindly legs, covered in fragrant pine trees, are surrounded by turquoise waters.
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On it is a tattoo of spindly fingers crawling out of an eyeball.
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Hop plants died and a coffee plant grew so spindly it was removed.
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It will decorate many spindly-legged and well-dusted coffee tables, I suspect.
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Farouk is a spindly and sentimental construction who never attains actual character status.
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The middle finger, a spindly stick, rotates on a ball-and-socket joint.
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McAfee suggested four Caledonian pines, tall, spindly firs to remind her of Scotland.
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They showed black soldiers amid spindly trees and what looked like Japanese shrines.
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White House Memo WASHINGTON — The trees in the capital are barren, spindly things.
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Instead of majestic beasts, there were spindly trees draped in clumps of snow.
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He stretches out his spindly fingers to beckon them into fresh temptation and debauchery.
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This fall wreath (top) is crafted together with black dahlias, magnolias, and spindly twigs.
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The spindly legs are also thought to be an adaptation for these high grasses.
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Real horses get summarily executed if they snap one of their unnecessarily spindly legs.
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The result is like seeing a child attempt to hide behind a spindly tree.
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The newkitchenitems include aJack Skellington apronthat will put your head on his spindly body.
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The helium-filled body is just barely counteracted by the spindly legs and feet.
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Human figures have a goofy, spindly comedic lilt but are often attacking each other.
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Their spindly 7-foot-4 center, Christ Koumadje, was in foul trouble all night.
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The other was Kevin Durant, a spindly, less classifiable big man out of Texas.
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In the video, her spindly limbs punch reflex volleys and nail sharp-angled slices.
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She batters and fries the blossoms into sweet, spindly fritters, dusted with powdered sugar.
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"This isn't the size they should be," Arellano said, raising his children's spindly arms.
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There, they grow and reproduce, spreading their spindly thalli (stem-like structures) through the skin.
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A horse was pastured beyond the windbreak, a line of spindly willows alongside his yard.
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In 1837, Charles Darwin sketched a spindly tree of life in one of his notebooks.
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The dominant presence was desert gold, a sunflower that blossoms on a long, spindly stem.
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Searching for trees in these spindly, barely arborescent paintings feels valid and foolish at once.
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In terms of returns, the E.T.F.s have looked more like spindly saplings than strong sequoias.
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It's bright yellow and creates spindly, vascular-like growths that connect it to food sources.
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The window winds down and a spindly green hand begins to beckon in our direction.
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Its spindly body and claws are well-suited for folding up in the narrow coral cavity.
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Spindly green tentacles from an unseen monster spill out of its windows, scaring spaghetti-slurpers inside.
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But the spindly, fragile footbridge was too weak to bear the weight of all this love.
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When I walk into a spindly Victorian, I feel as though someone is tightening my corset.
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Inside the houses, Weaver's spindly figures move around blotty tabletops, each free of pesky contour lines.
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A Soviet-era tractor, spindly and goggle-eyed, gleamed within the shadows of a stone barn.
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"If anything comes at you, run up a tree," he added, gesturing at the spindly eucalyptuses nearby.
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The spindly skeletons of trees still stand atop hillsides leached of color in Carry-le-Rouet, France.
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With its spindly legs and funnel-shaped bus, the spacecraft looks completely different from past lunar rovers.
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Paris' hottest new hotel is a spindly 984-foot iron tower that may look a little familiar.
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The vaulted roof, which had been renovated several years ago, was reduced to a charred, spindly skeleton.
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The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived in Phoenix shortly before 9 p.m.
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But the most significant clues were the spindly metal structures spaced along the ridge of the canyon.
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Image credit: University of Wisconsin-MadisonBut those spindly little weeds still weren't the very first space flowers.
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The track features acoustic-like guitars paired with Richard's soft, light melodies and progresses into spindly synths.
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Ohia trees are tall and spindly, with a flowering red crown that spreads out in twiggy filaments.
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Landstrider: Large, gentle creatures from the world of Thra that are recognizable by their tall, spindly legs.
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Perched on its ledge, with its spindly turrets scraping a gray sky, it presented a haunting image.
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It was a great responsibility for a spindly, preteen boy who loved nothing more than playing soccer.
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"Generate," the closing track from Restitution, is more aggressive techno, with abrasive synthetic drums and spindly, melodic instrumentation.
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The knock on Ingram is that he's still under 200 pounds, and spindly and easy to push around.
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The southern pine beetle, with its three-millimeter frame and short spindly legs, doesn't cut an imposing figure.
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Spindly skeletons are all that remain of the trees that once forested this area in Tambopata National Reserve.
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It's raucous and death-obsessed and silly all at once, packed with chant-along vocals and spindly riffs.
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It's an old tree by the looks of the spindly, half-bare branches shuddering violently in the wind.
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The spindly, single-seat Solar Impulse 2 left John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 2:20133 a.m.
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I shouldn't be surprised considering only half of a spindly wooden table is dedicated to books in English.
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A viscous bass line structures the mid-tempo track while Rhomberg's spindly, charismatic vocals float along the beat.
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In a memorable sighting, the spindly-legged, fat-bodied brown spider is perched on a toothbrush, dwarfing it.
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The only sign of development is a couple of spindly red-and-white telecommunication towers on the ridges.
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In one room, the lighter-fluid stench of chemotherapy clung to a girl's spindly body like a cloud.
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I had to rub my eyes for a moment as I realized these entries were SPINDLY and SPINDRY.
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Sometimes, the only thing distinguishing a megachurch from a defunct K-Mart is a spindly cross on its facade.
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I always thought they were a bit long and spindly, really—but I guess they work well on camera.
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Even now, picturing him, he is post-human, pale and dark and spindly, like a specter or a spider.
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The robot is similar to the bizarre-looking Ballu, a blimp robot with a floating head and spindly legs.
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Paradise itself was spread out among large Coulter pines—those pines with the long, spindly needles and heavy cones.
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Durant has always been an implausible-looking player, going back to his one season of spindly superstardom in college.
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Netted layers of paper cut into spindly bows frame a never-ending hole which opens up to another world.
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They are the very long, etiolated-looking spindly white strands that show up in some stir fries and soups.
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It inserts its spindly middle finger into the hole and swivels it around, fishing out grubs with its claws.
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"We don't want to upset the neighbors," my father said, but the boy's spindly legs remained bare for years.
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Their hands and spindly limbs cling to bright and exotic floral arrangements as their bodies are ravished by lapping waves.
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As I carefully cutting a modest slice through the spindly "cat hair-like" mold, the cheese crumbled around my knife.
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Now, as a health worker examines him, the circumference of his spindly upper arm indicates the severity of his condition.
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Your goal is to cross the spindly arm-shaped obstacle in front of you and launch yourself into a mouth.
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The artist uses a classical style to create a prism effect and filter his artworks through patterns of spindly diamonds.
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On the runway, clutches in the shapes of the logos for People and Life hung from the models' spindly arms.
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As we found out during Sunday's episode of Planet Earth II, giraffes are significantly tougher than their spindly frames suggest.
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In "Marionette," a poignant head crowns a steely, spindly body, with typewriter components and vintage gauges replacing flesh and bone.
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When it stopped being cold, the weather turned wet and my clothes and shoes grew a spindly layer of mold.
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Their long, spindly legs facilitate graceful movement in water, and their slender, curved beaks allow them to fish with ease.
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The spindly, soft-spoken native of Wiesbaden, Germany, is known for his subtle command of language and intense onstage presence.
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Under spindly cabanas by azure waves, two women lie chest down on lounge chairs, their bare backs implying bare fronts.
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Their plump marshmallow bodies sit on cookie bases, with caramel ganache heads and eight spindly legs, all coated with chocolate.
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A pair of Japanese incense burners on spindly tripods might almost be little pavilions for one of Antoine Watteau's fetes.
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Its silver, spindly body shooting out of my ear like it had reached the end of a particularly dry, volatile waterslide.
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The River Beech Tower is a spindly, beechwood building whose 80 stories cut a blonde silhouette against Chicago's dark, glassy horizon.
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Because the type itself — white, spindly, unvarying in size — is so visually dull, dashes, underlinings, and parentheticals take on new resonance.
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Stripped of most of her clothes and nearly all of her power, she is a hauntingly mortal figure on spindly legs.
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A wooden structure with spindly legs, arranged in a rough circle, supports the tape decks and their entangled web of wires.
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Melting clocks, spindly-legged creatures, ants crawling everywhere—the images and major themes of Salvador Dalí imprint themselves into your consciousness.
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A photograph shows him around 10 high in a spindly tree looking down at a treehouse he built on its branches.
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If you find the iOS system font too spindly for comfortable reading, the Accessibility settings also offer a Bold Text option.
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The aye-aye may not be the most graceful walker on account of those spindly fingers, but it's got job security.
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"If you have nothing to eat, what do you do?" he asked, perched on a plastic chair under a spindly tree.
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But Stallworth, a spindly 262-224.2 and 21964 pounds, replaced DeBusschere in the fourth quarter when DeBusschere got into foul trouble.
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It was a spindly, boastful thing, and yet a dozen people sat beneath it, chatting and murmuring, briskly unpacking elaborate lunches.
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Sculptor Marco Palli's spindly steel columns almost look weightless — not that you could pick them up without risking a tetanus infection.
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A spindly, trebly synth line lurks ominously in the background, as a stately, matter-of-fact chord rings out every few measures.
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According to these reports, a spindly and creepy creature is spliced into otherwise benign kids YouTube content, encouraging them to self-harm.
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With their impossibly spindly legs, sea spiders—which aren't even actual spiders—stride across the ocean floor with eerily slow, deliberate steps.
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Be it spindly stilettos or a tight skirt that feels somewhat uncomfortable after a large dinner, we all suffer for fashion sometimes.
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Anyone who has watched a recent major marathon has noticed the pack of spindly men and women striding way out in front.
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" Hepburn's mother, Ella van Heemstra, wrote to her daughter in 1961 that Ferrer was a "frog faced delinquent with the spindly legs.
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Beneath the sky, a band of grey smog hangs on the horizon—under that, the creeping 101, the spindly marquees of hotels.
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There would be more paintings of bare landscapes, some with spindly second- or third-growth trees struggling upward beneath a blue sky.
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The figure is crowned with a spindly sun shape casting its own complicated shadow behind itself that's as interesting as the sculpture.
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A despondent, rust-colored orangutan, clinging to a couple of spindly vines, confronts a startled toucan in "Canopy" (2018, 30 x 40 inches).
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The adoption organization notes that Nate was born with defects and struggles with a barrel chest, a sway leg and a spindly figure.
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Loose interpretations of its spindly rococo heel have cropped up at stores and e-tail sites including DHgate, ASOS, Jeffrey Campbell and Poshmark.
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It naughtily monumentalizes John Adams, the second President of the United States, as an anaemic, spindly, Gitane blue persona with pointy little arms.
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Swon, a milliner, pinpointed the bird from the massive oil painting, her interest piqued by the metal funnel (and spindly branch) atop its head.
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Keeping with the minimalist approach, the TV has spindly chrome legs so light that it almost seems like the screen is floating in midair.
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The experience opens with a young woman writing a letter to "Angelica," her spindly, graceful handwriting flowing across the scene to guide the eye.
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Image: David E. Hill, Peckham Society, Simpsonville, South CarolinaSpiders are already horrifying, with their eight beady little eyes and spindly legs and sticky webs.
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Their drawn-on faces and spindly limbs have just the right amount of personality and bounce to keep the game feeling light and humorous.
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The light of the partial moon was quite sufficient to pick out the silhouettes of spiky bayonet and spindly manzanita and raggedy creosote bushes.
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Beware the Slenderman is based on the spindly meme of the same name that prompted 12-year-olds to stab a classmate in 2014.
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One spindly, the other evocative of a flowering human heart, they're connected by way of wires that feed into the tanks and become tentacles.
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It put the ball into the hands of Joe Burrow, a senior quarterback with spindly legs, a baby face and a cold, cold heart.
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At the other end of the garden is a handsome grove of tall, spindly white birches, arranged in a horseshoe around a seating area.
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Long of legs and arms, and possessed of an oh-so-delicate touch, the spindly 6-foot-9 forward-guard-center extracted Serbia's heart.
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These peculiar forms thin out at the corners and fatten in the middle, resembling slow-crawling mollusks that Young's spindly figures mount like cowboys.
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And speaking of weird-looking animals: The oldest known figure drawing — found in a cave in Borneo — depicts a reddish creature with spindly legs.
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Spindly, balding, and animated, Weinberger is Swimply's chief marketing officer and something of a contrast to Laskin, who is shorter, hirsute, and less animated.
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I thought about the spindly girl with wild ringlets, smiling as she served me a plate of wontons and strawberries in the food tent.
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The spindly handled spoons and forks have been created by one of the country's most famous designers to fit the pinnacle of pancake Epicureanism.
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And what better place to serve it than in a period drama with splendid candy-colored costumes, spindly gilded furniture and exquisitely coifed characters?
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Nevertheless, there is something lighthearted and genuinely funny about these spindly little birds who populate the nooks and crannies of the artist's exhibition space.
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The Tensegrity stand — named after the structural principle — is a spindly, industrial-meets-mid-century tripod that's made of aluminum tubes and stainless-steel cables.
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Hajara knew from the thick-trunked, green-leafed trees — nothing like the spindly, spiky desert ones back in Dapchi — that she was far from home.
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Solar Impulse 2, a spindly single-seat plane, flew over the Pyramids to make a smooth landing at Cairo airport at about 7:10 a.m.
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It's kind of dark but also strong and feminine, filled with familiar natural shapes like the spindly legs of a spider or blades of grass.
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It's about how the body and its authority can be manifested in writing, with only the spindly trace of letters to stand in for it.
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The spindly renderings of man and animal are the work of an artist they've dubbed "Wolfman" for the paw print signature that accompanies the pictoglyphs.
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It starts with "feed299.9"—the album's first, but far from its only, 215-plus minute gauntlet of spindly tendrils of Max/MSP-derived digital noise.
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We've got lots of lovely spindly grass growing in the rough, and the fairways here are really firm, very quick and very brown as well.
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WUHAN, China — Bella Zhang hung an intravenous drip on a spindly tree branch and slumped down on a large stone planter outside the crowded hospital.
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One of her celebrated bronze "Choupatte" sculptures, which incongruously set a cabbage on spindly chicken legs, sold for €2.2 million, an auction high for the artist.
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David McDonald, one of the few formalist artists in residence, crafts spindly sculptures made from fragmented pieces of wood, sand, and polyurethane grafted onto bamboo spines.
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But before the bacteria died, the spindly little devils took control of their cells and produced a little compartment for viral genetic material to divide in.
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Her early entry into the world came with kidney problems and cerebral atrophy that have delayed some parts of her development and kept her limbs spindly.
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In a separate letter to Aylmer, Hepburn's mother, Ella van Heemstra, described the New Jersey-born actor as a "frog faced delinquent with the spindly legs".
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Insect wings look fibrous and veiny; the spindly legs of a beetle, crafted with a single thread, appear as delicate as they do in real life.
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And yet, in Bosnia, I found scenery that fit the platonic ideal of a fairy tale, a dreamy dominion punctuated by spindly minarets instead of crosses.
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The roaches agitated me; I hated their spindly legs and their constantly probing antennae, the way they darted and the sheer quantity and speed of them.
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The exaggerated torsos and spindly limbs of the dolls that hung over his bed — nuns, bullfighters, skeletons — provided a template for his work throughout his life.
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Even as a spindly rookie dropped into the chaos of Don Nelson's system and dealing with the maelstrom of Monta Ellis' moods, Steph Curry was special.
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The spindly legged foal of a country that arrived in July of 1776 was entirely dependent on the goodwill between those founders and the states they represented.
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The legs were spindly metal and they went through the drywall easy enough, and the biggest chunk of gypsum came off when he pulled it back out.
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There were spindly trees behind me and the sun was coming through and putting dappled light on them, which was interesting but didn't show the actors well.
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Much of the text from the book is there to be discovered, activated by looking closely at the open-world landscape's shy rabbits and spindly pitch pines.
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On the wall of a cave deep in the jungles of Borneo, there is an image of a thick-bodied, spindly-legged animal, drawn in reddish ocher.
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They bumped past clusters of thin-leafed neem trees, spindly acacia trees and the charred remains of other villages that Boko Haram or the military had destroyed.
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A line of spindly young trees marked the border of a grassy, flat backyard where Deng and his fellow pledges would be initiated into Pi Delta Psi.
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She paused to post some spindly jellyfish on her Instagram story because the background music was so comical (Steve Vai-like shredding), although she found them gross.
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Pape's paintings from this first period, in which rotated squares and askew, spindly lines lie in fields of white, draw heavily on the example of Soviet Constructivism.
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In an area of high-rise apartment buildings clustered around a mosque with spindly, futuristic minarets, a pudgy boy of 10 or 11 called over to us.
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Confetti-like polka dots punctuate a shower of spindly leaves while a perfectly portioned storm of tiny black sunglasses stack up in a calming black-on-pink amalgamation.
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She portrayed cloth-swaddled human bodies, dream-world topographic textures, and a spindly tree whose leafless branches and runaway root system entwine in an orgy of fecund growth.
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Too spindly and unsafe to go the distance, too sedate of pace (and challenged for sidewalk space) to feel worthwhile if you don't have far to go anyway.
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After eight hours of searching, Boat 36826 slows as it passes under a section of the bridge, a giant outcrop of grey concrete covered in spindly metal scaffolding.
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How in the entire world do people take this spindly, piney, aggressively textured piece of plant life and carve it into the fruit-salad star that it is?
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"Untitled" conjures up the spindly pain of Alberto Giacometti's sculptures, made in the wake of World War II amid widespread doubts as to whether humanity had a conscience.
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It's like exercising one set of muscles and not another; when it comes to language, I have massive upper-body strength and puny, spindly legs (er, metaphorically speaking).
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A spindly tree was sketched from a crack in the heartwood; in another painting annual rings were used to frame a blue-toned scene of Adam's creation by God.
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It's a full-on spindly stiletto propping up a super-sporty high-top sneaker style — and it's something Posh Spice would've adored (and surely owned in five different colorways).
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Hong Kong (CNN)As you read this, a spindly-looking silver robot with a satellite dish for a head is exploring places never seen up close before by humans.
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But Moshfegh's building, a two-story cluster of nineteen-twenties apartments, sits behind a gate, connected to the street by a walkway lined with roses and spindly purple skyflower.
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Some of these asides are interesting enough, but they are too heavy for the spindly story line, which is also burdened by Ms. Spiotta's growing disdain for her heroine.
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Sputnik was an aluminum sphere about the size of a beach ball — it was jammed full of communications equipment and weighed more than 180 pounds — with four spindly legs.
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On a stage dotted with spindly crosses, a wall looking like craggy rock looming in the back, nine dancers created images of collective prayer that kept dissolving into violence.
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Three months later, in March, he sat with me under the tall, spindly orange tree in his courtyard and described how he barricaded himself in when the fighting started.
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Elisa Lendvay, 43, who lives and works in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., combines the material with steel, bamboo, rubber and wire mesh to create objects that range from spindly to blobby.
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He shuffles his frame across the court—spindly legs, funny belly—tossing passes that look innocent enough when they leave his hands but prove brilliant when they find their target.
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But while these fragile mortals, often so spindly that they seem to be on the point of vanishing, emerged in response to war and genocide, they embody more than horror.
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In the impressive clip, Tian Tian scales a tall and spindly tree with no fear, looking out at his admirers from the high branches as they "ooh" and "ahh" below.
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The British cabinetmaker Thomas Sheraton is credited with publishing the first drawings (a group of four spindly-legged tables labeled Quartetto) in his book "The Cabinet Dictionary," published in 1803.
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Recently, a flock of plastic bags has caught in the spindly sycamore in front of their apartment, empty bags that inflate and deflate with the wind like marooned sailing ships.
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Besides a few spindly cellphone towers, there are few signs of the globalization swamping Myanmar as the nation opens itself after half a century of isolation under a military dictatorship.
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But once he's added delicate hind legs, spindly forelegs, and the muscular slopes of rump and neck, Traylor invariably arrives at something with the eerie singularity of a Sumerian logogram.
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And when the Spartans did manage to work the ball inside, Owens — a spindly 21-foot-23 senior with a 41-inch vertical leap — regularly contested shots at the rim.
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To read Mr Dylan's spindly script on a gallery wall is a kind of work; to listen to his songs is a more passive, emotional experience that imbues them with meaning.
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These spindly irritants can use their psychic powers to mess with your soldiers, taking control of their minds to cause panic, disorientation, or even force them to fire on their friends.
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The dozen spindly corpses, curled into the fetal position or swaddled in baskets, belong to a lost pagan civilization around 2 1/2 millennia ago - long before the advent of Islam.
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For a girl who doesn't miss much, this one's pretty hysterical, but also demonic and a little scary, like the spindly sharp-angled figures of the German Expressionist Leon Ludwig Kirchner.
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Seen from the street-facing side, it appears as a series of randomly staggered concrete platforms with multiple boxes hoisted by spindly steel poles and enclosed on all sides by glass.
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Also appealing was the prospect of a place that was truly dark at night — a place where the thick, spindly velvet of steep, tree-covered mountainsides soaks up the darkness completely.
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Then, as we rounded a bend and the skipper cut the engine, we drifted toward a twinkling stand of trees, the spindly limbs seemingly strung with strands of white Christmas lights.
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American chestnuts can resprout from the root collar; today, pretty much the only examples that still exist in the woods are small, spindly trees that have sprung up in this way.
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In perhaps his most extreme series, he cantilevered his paintings at right angles to the wall, supporting the outer edges with spindly stainless-steel rods so that they resembled attenuated tables.
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In December, spindly black stalks, the remnants of sunflowers, shot up here and there from one of Mr. DeSutter's fields, which were covered in a yellowing broadleaf and bright green hairy vetch.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Within Vernacular Interior at Hales Gallery, a wooden shack on spindly legs faces the entrance as if keeping vigil, its open doorway like an unblinking eye.
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I had never seen a woman treat men the way she did, luring them with her catlike eyes; tugging them around by the shirt collar; dragging her spindly fingers across their pecs.
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Yes, it was getting late and those hungry hounds would have eaten my spindly fingers if they'd hit the table, too, but forgive my humble bragging and just look at that crust.
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Central Park is a pastoral autumn scene, all reds and yellows, and as you swing through the city the warm light of sundown filters through the spindly branches of half-naked trees.
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Their findings reinforce findings made in earlier trees, which showed the whole of the eukaryote section—that's the one in which we can find our own species—as a single, spindly branch.
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Drawing on the spindly guitar work of Television and the general chilly climate of the best British underground music of the era, he made a brittle-yet-brilliant version of guitar pop.
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All of these drills help Jha react faster during matches and, despite his small and spindly physique, give him a more powerful base from which to rise up and into his shots.
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At the pageant, children sat cross-legged in the dirt, crowded close to the spindly stage where the contestants spun and danced in red feather headdresses, gold brocade and clouds of tulle.
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Objects he had admired as a youngster — ancient limestone carvings, gilded Torah scrolls, bejeweled Islamic daggers, a spindly 2,500-year-old mummy — were missing amid the charred debris and shattered display cases.
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We parked in front of the house, a brick ranch with bars on the front windows, a screened-in patio, and a lawn with six squat palm trees and some spindly shrubs.
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His emblematic stick figure evolved in the early 1960s: a spindly Everyman, often presented solo in midair, as though frozen in the act of doing jumping jacks, though sometimes assembled into groups.
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The black rhino and cheetah can be elusive, but there are spindly giraffes and young zebra dotting the landscape, and herds of elephants trundle along to the watering hole at cocktail hour.
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Rough edges frame the philtrum, chin and bits of cheek around her lips, and the piece rests on a spindly plaster stem that descends a couple of inches to a broader foot.
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What came out of the tour was a series of heartbreaking pen and ink sketches of impoverished households, skeletal bodies of people starving, and potbellied children with sad faces and spindly limbs.
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The consensus, given the animals' spindly anatomy, which brings all parts of their bodies into proximity with the water they live in, has been that diffusion directly from this water must be enough.
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Other works take otherwise "useful" objects and render them useless, like Waiting to Happen, a sculpture made of camera tripods that lurks in the center of the gallery like a giant, spindly, spider.
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These more cerebral aspects of "Hystopia" — the much anticipated first novel by a veteran short-story writer — can weigh the book down, like too-heavy ornaments and garlands on a spindly Christmas tree.
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The aye-aye may have needed to beef up its grip strength as the rest of its fingers morphed into spindly, highly specialized tools for the nocturnal primate's unique hunting strategy: tap foraging.
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The graphic novel gives another vision of Atwood's dystopia, but Nault's spindly-skinny characters look distractingly like fashion illustrations; even the supposedly drab outfit of the "Econowives" appears glamorous in Nault's dreamy rendering.
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It began almost immediately: Manchester City launched a long ball down the right flank just after the kickoff, and Sergio Agüero, the spindly striker, slipped past defender David Luiz, who yanked Agüero down.
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Like hermit crabs, diners bring their own cordons of safety, but spindly legs gently reach out to touch the car next door: shouts about high school rivalries, about golf scores, Migos lyrics, 4H.
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PARIS — Desolate by design, the spindly sculptures and plagued portraits created by Alberto Giacometti last century receive a refreshing reinvigoration by Annette Messager in her delightfully dialectical two-person show titled Our Rooms.
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Still, the storm showed North Carolinians on this long spindly finger of land that ignoring the forces of nature to cling to their homes and the coast's $20123 billion economy may not be sustainable.
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Other than her spindly filigrees of mandola and violin, Bruun does her patented thing and snarls and coos all over the song, which matches its pendulum swing between raging blastbeats and shoegaze-inspired fog.
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In the six-day-old Trump era, to the chagrin of some veteran audio purists and aestheticians, the single mic clipped to the tip of a spindly, outstretched gooseneck will now rule the roost.
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Its replacement started with just four, the spindly white towers of the Fattah al-Aleem mosque (pictured), a showpiece project in the new purpose-built capital rising in the desert 0003km east of Cairo.
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One of nature's most befuddling quadrupeds, the common wildebeest has the thick, horned bust of a buffalo, the spindly legs and wispy tail of a horse, and the scraggly whitish beard of a wizard.
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I then went in and painted the crevices and recessed areas a darker tone of brownish red and varied the broader surfaces by adding some thin spindly patterns that read as sub surface veins.
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The spindly compositions that Valerie Teicher records as Tei Shi are fierce in their modesty, making spare use of whispered high notes and loud screams for a well-studied blend of Janet and Gwen.
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I don't look like someone with a sustained interest in blades—I'm a young woman, born and bred in New York City, with spindly long arms that seem too weak to wield a sword.
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The spindly young man in dark-rimmed glasses bent his leg and fell dramatically to the floor — a vogueing move known as a dip, invented decades ago in New York's underground L.G.B.T. ballroom scene.
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It has been conjured by the artist Fia Backstrom and the independent curator Piper Marshall, and presents photographs by nine artists, including Ms. Backstrom, that hang, with two exceptions, from six spindly aluminum stands.
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The drawings seem set in the early 20th century, with railroads crossing flat landscapes, wood frame homes bordered with spindly trees, and formal portraits of people all gaping at the viewer with large eyes.
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In"Tackle" (2017), a hulking, tar-like black form with spindly legs and a small penis takes up most of the painting, his arms and the top of his head cropped by the edges.
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At my feet, wildflowers: sunshine yellow gentians high as my thighs; snow-colored narcissi; Queen Anne's lace; something purple and spindly; fragrant herbs; nettles that sting my ankles as I walk through them; tall grasses.
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The "challenge" centers around the character Momo — a spindly figure with large dark eyes and a freakishly long grin — that was originally created by a Japanese art studio but took on a new life online.
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Diamniadio is meant to free up Dakar's gridlocked roads by moving the nerve centre of the capital, which is home to more than 3 million people, off the spindly peninsula at Africa's western-most point.
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In a lot of ways, it picks up exactly where Peep left off—full of both the chest-clearing 808s and the simple geometry of the spindly guitar riffs that marked most of his work.
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I don't like them because they have inscrutable lizard eyes, because they have weird spindly backwards legs, and because — for an animal that big — they have no right to be as skittish as they are.
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Diamniadio is meant to free up Dakar's gridlocked roads by moving the nerve center of the capital, which is home to more than 3 million people, off the spindly peninsula at Africa's western-most point.
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One night, I mistook the contents of a vase on my table for reed-shaped fragrance diffusers; they turned out to be spindly breadsticks, or "housemade grissini," seasoned with Calabrian chili and herbes de Provence.
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Archaeologists, in a cave deep in the jungles of Borneo, found the oldest figurative art in the world: the image above of a spindly-legged animal, drawn in reddish ocher, more than 40,000 years old.
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Her paintings often depict women with large, dark eyes, pale flesh, and spindly limbs rendered in a dizzying amount of dots and set against a rainbow of pulsating color that makes the viewer feel hypnotized.
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I sat at a small green table and watched the earth dim through cracks in the spindly trees, as buildings turned gold in the dusky light and New Yorkers streamed by, full of competence and purpose.
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On a nearby mantelpiece, Lina Tharsing's pictures depict droopy flowers and spindly plants that seem to scrape their simple, urgent forms right out of the jungly greens of the oil paint covering their wood-panel surfaces.
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In the video released today, Cassie's spindly saunter looks effortless, keeping pace with a human, balancing on a shifting dock surface, and recovering smoothly when said human gives it a rude kick in the mechanical ass.
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A later sculpture of a single child, with spindly legs, wears a frayed green shift decorated with an Irish shamrock, but he or she appears fearful, defenseless, with eyes that are no more than awl marks.
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Of course, once you make that connection, you see immediately that the spindly metal bird with its snipping bill is a sibling to the stork on the spoon handle that records details of a baby's birth.
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Freshman kickoff returner Seneca Milledge is 5-foot-21, 160 pounds; sophomore receiver Billy Kemp IV is 5-foot-9, 175 pounds; and sophomore linebacker Noah Taylor is 6-foot-5 and a spindly 215 pounds.
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Is the latest step in that metamorphosis, further embellishing the skeletal drumwork and dramatic gestures of their 2017 album Powerplant with hazed distortion and spindly instrumentation that recalls beloved forebears like Duster or Elliott Smith's band Heatmiser.
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And sometimes the fascination lay in the sheer unlikelihood of such an author existing at all, amid the most inauspicious circumstances: a houseful of children, a ne'er-do-well husband, a spindly desk in a drafty hallway.
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"Is it future ... or is it past?" are Mike's first words, and he eventually leads Cooper to a room with a spindly, swaying tree sapling with a talking, heart-shaped bulb at the crux of its branches.
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The best songs on the album threaten to drown you with hooks: "She's American" piles radiant harmonies, spindly guitar lines, and a rogue saxophone onto bubbly funk, and "The Sound" is an irresistible bit of thumping house.
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Directed by Sam Mendes and telling the story (in under two hours) of a spindly World War I soldier (George MacKay) in a race against time, "27" cost roughly $11.43 million to make, not including marketing expenses.
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The three dozen works featured here, many on loan from the nonprofit Calder Foundation, include several prime examples of classic Calder: geometric cutouts of sheet metal painted red, yellow, blue and black, calmly rotating on spindly wires.
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A series of palpably awkward media appearances followed—Steele folding his towering body into a spindly chair on the set of the Rikki Lake Show, flicking dark hair out of his face to stare down Jerry Springer.
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Other photographs frame the moon over a pair of swaying pines in Appling County, Georgia; spindly trees rising above long grass in Craven County, North Carolina; and the flat crown of a gnarled trunk in Talladega County, Alabama.
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Still, despite these borrowings, Amino's works possesses something that is all his own – their spindly forms rising vertically and swiftly from their base, with the use of wire or bowed dowels seemingly holding the central form in place.
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For Marni, Tom Pecheux performed an even finer surgery by turning normal false lashes into tailored addenda, cutting long, well-curled strips into pieces and applying them in sparse, spindly bundles along the upper and lower lash lines.
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There is no way to approach the dish without making a glorious mess, while scooping the tender flesh awash in sticky sauce and just the right touch of stank from the roe and head of the spindly beasts.
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There are teak and leather chairs (by Noir Furniture), wood bed frames with spindly legs, period prints hung here and there, live plants and terrazzo night stands that reflect the terrazzo vanities in the black-and-white bathrooms.
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Instead of applying brushstrokes to canvas or wood panels, she orchestrates drips, spindly strands, and other mostly thin shapes made of various materials ( along with polymer gypsum, she has used fiberglass, steel, gold leaf, copper leaf, and pigment).
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Adaptation was written during a summertime retreat in the Alps—the duo's spindly techno could easily soundtrack a slow ski descent from an mountaintop, as well as it could keep a club moving in the early pre-dawn hours.
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With the end of the war, and the full revelation of the Holocaust, the human body became a sign of pathos and existential dread, notably in the fraught paintings of Francis Bacon and the spindly sculptures of Alberto Giacometti.
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Spindly and unnaturally elevated, in a reptile-patterned catsuit under a lavishly embroidered vest by Alexander McQueen, a minor heist's worth of diamonds and gemstones encircling her fingers, she cut a noticeable figure in the crowded East Village shop.
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With Spartanburg ahead by 39 points, Richardson, a spindly guard who had played varsity since the eighth grade, found himself jogging easily up the right sideline when he spotted Williamson closing menacingly down the other side of the court.
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At the long wooden bar, which sits between the dining area and the small concrete pool, patrons perch on spindly stools drinking mai tais and licking cones of soft serve, which comes in flavors like toasted coconut and granola.
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Geoff Gadd, a professor of biology at the University of Dundee in Scotland, learned that when he puts the mold in a container with urea and manganese, a mineral called manganese carbonate will form around the spindly arms of the fungus.
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Under Ford, the label's runways may have been poetically smothered with rose petals or goatskin rugs (the latter a trip hazard when combined with spindly stilettos in the label's Fall 2002 show), but that was the extent of the amateur dramatics.
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Eight of the dried specimens that Edward gathered are on view here alongside the watercolors that comprise Orra's "Herbarium Parvum, Pictum" ("A Small Herbarium of Paintings"), whose pages contain spindly reeds of Kelly green, and ovate leaves scratched with delicate veining.
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Further, the chief concern pre-draft regarding Porzingis was whether his spindly frame would be able to withstand the rigors of an NBA season or if he'd get tossed around like a sublimely skilled version of a wacky inflatable tube man.
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Recurring curves build to a funny totemic cohesion in "In the Red" (45 by 55 inches), which also plays spindly brushstrokes and wan colors against a bold, central crimson mass in a way that recalls Amy Sillman's pianoforte pictorial dynamics.
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The works' alluring tactility, pleasingly contrasting tones, and slightly comical dimensions were consistent with her other recent sculptural experiments on view, including a deceptively hefty clothes hanger, a giant ceramic navel ring, and a spindly sculptural support for a thong.
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A quarter the size of Nantucket, it is thoroughly given over to the petrochemical industry, so crowded with spindly cracking towers and squat oil-storage tanks that the landscape is a blur of brand names — BASF, AkzoNobel, Exxon Mobil, Vopak.
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They contain some of the oldest and hardest stone in the world; over the course of 70 million years or so, erosion has sculpted them into spindly towers and ragged loaves, 5,000-foot-high turrets protected by moats and moonscape boulders.
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In the case of "Honest", that meant some slinky synths, a spindly beat, and a confession that pretty much everybody in the world can relate to, at least some of the time: some people are just really hard to get over.
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About the size of a golf cart and vaguely resembling a flightless bird with a long neck, six wheels and a spindly claw, Opportunity was a robot version of "The Little Engine That Could," the storybook locomotive that never stopped trying.
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Letter of Recommendation When I was 8, I wheedled my parents into buying me a dollhouse: a regal Gothic Revival mansion with a turret, spindly porch posts and hundreds of mock-wood shingles, each the size of a pinkie nail.
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An array of large, mobile creatures like sea cucumbers, deep-sea prawns, deep sea fishes, brittle stars (crazy looking starfish with spindly arms) and the beloved casper octopods spend their days in and around the nodule fields, foraging and reproducing.
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The players were crudely animated, with poker-faced and brutally digitized oversized heads staring out from atop spindly and primitive bodies; the two-on-two game play could be described as cartoonish but could more accurately be described as psychedelic.
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Incredibly, it's taken a full decade for Slendy to make it into the title of his own horror film — a weirdly late take on our spindly-armed pied piper that might end up revealing how patchy the Slender Man mythos is.
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Just as the Darlington crest is a paean to both industry and religion, so the Morecambe badge pays homage to both the local fishing industry and the animal kingdom, with the animal in question a massive marine crustacean with spindly head tendrils.
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We could be watching a web series or a spindly indie about four young people (played by Alia Shawkat, Anton Yelchin, Callum Turner and Joe Cole) at loose ends who meet up with a series of rough but also kind of interesting characters.
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But it's certainly not rock-star music: These songs are spindly and staccato and lightly played, with no reverb, built of jagged instrumental melodies that sound like they begin in the middle, with few spaces for musicians to step out and shine.
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She even drew ire from celebrities like actress Debra Messing and comedian Ricky Gervais, who mocked the hunter for her pride in using a high-powered rifle to bag a gentle animal carefully balancing a nine-foot neck on four spindly legs.
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When the two of them move into a new house, the boy finds a pop-up book called Mr. Babadook, from which the nightmarish Babadook springs forth—a spindly fingered, top-hat wearing supernatural creature who grows stronger as victims deny his existence.
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Harena, even then, was extraordinarily pretty, with fawn-colored hair and skin, long spindly legs, acerbic breasts, and a beauty mark beside an arched nose that looked as if it belonged on an ancient marble statue in a museum thousands of miles away.
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Even excellent NBA defenses would be stretched drum-tight trying to cover an offense like Golden State's; stretch it that much more, to defend this little spindly dude who is hitting 30-footers with apparent ease, and that fabric tears right down the middle.
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Next there was "Don't Let Me Down," featuring Daya, really just some spindly architecture around a monster drop; then "Closer"; next "Paris," a mid-tempo vacation song; and most recently "Something Just Like This," featuring Coldplay, an anthemic track about insecurity and archival research.
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Look at Post Malone's stoned, satisfied smile; look at the rather crude Photoshop job that's led to his face replacing Chad Kroeger's iconic smolder in the video for "Photograph"; see the way his spindly dreadlocks sit uncomfortably next to Kroeger's antipodean soap opera necklace.
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Spindly radio DJ Wells buckles under the heavy gear and needs to lie down for a spell — which could have seemed like an effective ploy for one-on-one time with our Bachelorette were he not sputtering for air and about to pass out.
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Summer takes to this world almost alarmingly fast (more on that later), while spindly Morty takes some time to get used to a place in which brawn rules all and the most awesome thing you can do is rip someone's head clean off their body.
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"We've studied the function of those weird, spindly middle fingers so long that nobody ever looked at this kind of lowly structure on the wrist," said Adam Hartstone-Rose, an anatomist at North Carolina State University who led the team that completed the research.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads KOYA, Iraqi Kurdistan — The eastern approach to the Kurdish town of Koya descends down a narrow two-lane highway that carves through a valley of endless sideways slices of brown and ochre, pocked with stubborn brush and spindly oaks.
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In Guston's spindly line drawings, we see Nixon, portrayed with a phallic nose and testicular cheeks, swimming on Key Biscayne and drafting foreign policy in China with caricatured politicians, including Henry Kissinger as a pair of glasses; the president's pet dog, Checkers, also makes cameos.
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In Guston's spindly line drawings, we see Nixon, portrayed with a phallic nose and testicular cheeks, swimming on Key Biscayne and drafting foreign policy in China with caricatured politicians, including Henry Kissinger as a pair of glasses; the president's pet dog, Checkers, also makes cameos.
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With all the focus on Baylor's post players — the 6-foot-7 Kalani Brown and the 6-foot-4 Lauren Cox — the national championship game against Notre Dame on Sunday just might be decided by the spindly arms of Richards, a 6-foot-1 sophomore.
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In DC, a spindly iron fence encircles the statue and its plinth, which, on a mound of turf, is surrounded by outward-pointing cannons, emphasizing its isolation; in New Orleans, we get a stalker's-eye view of the distant figure from behind an ornate gatepost.
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The artist's "(Self-Portrait 4)" (1994) is the twin sister of "Self-Portrait 13" from the same year, which I described in a previous review as "a hulking, spindly-armed monster" clearly derived from Francisco Goya y Lucientes's "Saturn Devouring His Son" (1820–1823).
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Clearly the only thing the Knicks were missing on those nights was me: a five-foot-six Upper West Side teenager with spindly arms and the unfortunate habit of dribbling the ball off her left knee whenever she attempted a cross-over dribble through her legs.
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She's also one of the only Drag Race contestants who used her spindly tattooed limbs to properly smash through the confines of the "drag" genre, topping the US and UK dance charts with her album Anus, and following it up with an equally filthy creation called Poundcake.
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"When we were doing the first album, I wanted to release the best English debut album ever," he says of 1982's spindly, embryonic Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty LP. "It'd be too conceited to say 'I want to make the best album in the world,'" he admits.
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It is a story of beliefs that congealed early in a home that he helped nudge to the right of its blue-state ZIP code, and of an ideology that became an identity for a spindly agitator at a large and racially divided public high school.
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His guitar playing was nearly as incendiary as the Purple One, too: When his backing band leavened their hypnotically funky desert blues with an amiable reggae beat, Bombino kicked up his knees in a high-stepping skank, his spindly fingers a dizzying blur on the strings.
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His handiwork is easy to spot: the spindly heel that flares subtly at the base, resembling the stem of a champagne flute where it widens to kiss the cup; the elongated pointy toe, with its ever-so-slightly rounded tip, like the smooth beak of a swan.
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As great a band as Girlpool were as bedroom-born minimalists—building spindly guitar and bass and two teetering voices around one another into wonderfully precarious toothpick-sculpture pop—it has been a joy to watch them blossom into the sorts of slow-moving, skybound bands they've long idolized.
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In "The Last Day of Martin Luther King" (1992), a somber black and white tiger made of painted mop strings stands in for the murdered civil rights leader, while the four spindly, brightly colored "All the Cats in Town" (1993), interlocked like a puzzle, strut and pose with attitude.
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It's not a monumental piece, appearing a bit like an industrial will-o'-the-wisp with its Plexiglas and chrome-plated brass, but with its spindly shadow dancing alongside, it encapsulates many of the ideas behind his work, including the embrace of new materials, light, transparency, and unexpected forms.
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If you got a soft drink, it came in a spindly glass bottle, and even after you paid for it you couldn't take it with you; you had to drink it on the premises, and a clerk watched to make sure you returned the bottle to a plastic crate.
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The album's second half begins with "Japan," a slow-moving hymn featuring singing from Sanders and a guitar line from Sonny Sharrock that wouldn't sound out of place on Grizzly Bear's Yellow House—its bare, spindly tones feel more familiar now than they did when they were released release.
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The vehicle careens along spindly roads and through a one-way tunnel bored through the very heart of a mountain, past babbling brooks, burbling waterfalls, and endless waves of green grass studded with fluffy white sheep and canny black rams picking their way across the rough, volcano-forged landscape.
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Then, suddenly I was raw, emotionally hung over, and feeling susceptible to a manifestation of mental illness that I can only describe as the haunting: a hybrid of anxiety and depression wherein I feel like something is watching me, judging me, reaching its spindly fingers into my stomach, chest, and throat.
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The residents, many of who have been swimming there for decades, plunge into the waters from steps reached by a spindly wooden bridge propped up on the rocks, just a stone's throw from the heart of the financial center against a busy backdrop of container ships, ferries and fishing boats.
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Second, once the fiend assumes myriad forms—there's a baby one that stands up on spindly legs, as if attempting its first-ever jive, and some sort of crossbreed with a milk-white head—it loses the monomaniacal thrust that made the original critter, designed by H. R. Giger, so forbidding.
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In "Garden with Butterflies" (1890), a steeply pitched close-up of green undergrowth scissors and sways with brushstrokes mimicking the rugged surfaces of spindly plants and long grass while the pistoled flowers on the right echo the leaf-like butterfly wings on the left, which, in turn, imitate squibs of paint.
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T. rex evolved mainly during the Cretaceous period to have keen eyes, spindly arms and massive conical teeth, which could bear down on prey with the force of a U-Haul truck; the dinosaur could even swallow whole bones, as affirmed here by a kid-friendly display of fossilized excrement.
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T. rex evolved mainly during the Cretaceous Period to have keen eyes, spindly arms and massive conical teeth, which could bear down on prey with the force of a U-Haul truck; the dinosaur could even swallow whole bones, as affirmed here by a kid-friendly display of fossilized excrement.
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To go back to Raymond Loewy, the father of industrial design, who came up with this idea of MAYA ["most advanced yet accessible"] — in the early 1930s, he looked at the design of trains and said trains now have this kind of ugly weird prominent chimney, and they look spindly and exposed.
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If I had a modicum of true basketball knowledge and I was bequeathed Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and the spindly and graceful 7-foot force that is Kevin Durant, not to mention a host of smart role players, perhaps I could close my eyes and wake up in the N.B.A. finals.
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With a still-emerging 3-point shot, an OK face-up game, and quality scoring instincts around the rim, Boucher has enough of an offensive baseline to dream on his defensive potential, especially if he can add any amount of strength to his spindly 29-pound frame and project as a hyper-modern center.
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They include Alexander S. C. Rower presenting the one-time activation of "Tightrope" (1936), with spindly objects balancing on a wire between two ebony carvings; the disorienting curls of "The Helices" (1944); the surprising layers of "Black Frame" (1934); and "Two Spheres" (1931) with white orbs floating across a dark void like lost stars.
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The creatures here include the Niffler, which looks like a duck-billed platypus and has a predilection for shoplifting; the Bowtruckle, a spindly green plant that suggests a tiny version of those wind socks you see at car dealerships; and the rather alarming Erumpent, which resembles a rhino with a pool of lava glowing beneath its horn.
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The Amount of Food Spiders Eat Each Year Will Haunt You for the Rest of Your LifeSpiders are already horrifying, with their eight beady little eyes and spindly legs and sticky…Read more ReadThough tens of thousands of spider species have been documented by scientists, there are still potentially thousands, if not millions, yet to be discovered.
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It's also just one of the many often mystifying aerodynamic challenges that neither pilots nor engineers can see but which they can absolutely feel, thanks to the complex forces swirling around clusters of fast-moving blades and all the spindly bits protruding from the fuselage to support motors, generate lift or control, or support landing skids or wheels.
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The Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori frequently uses charred timber in his eccentric, fantastical creations: on the roof of his 2004 Too Tall Teahouse in the city of Chino, a tiny fairy-tale hut suspended high in the air on two spindly posts; and on the striped-shirt exterior of his aptly named 2007 Yakisugi House in Nagano City.
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But until a recent renovation, a less glamorous side of Equinox emerged in the gym's break room: a spindly, wire-framed bunk bed, blocked from view by a shower curtain, where exhausted personal trainers napped between sessions, using towels to fortify mattress pads so thin that some trainers joked they must have been salvaged from a prison.
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I remember skin'spale slivers among the sheets,the silvery geckosthat knocked along the wallshunting spiders—howthe spindly stalks rose,one after the other,rarely touching, eachcapped by a tangled mass of goldlike a child's crayon sun,like the heart imaginedby someone who had never seen one—someone, who,falling asleep in the desertmight turn the wordshade or waterover and over on their tongue.
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This spindly teenager from Florida has become one of tennis's biggest names because she's seen as the next great American tennis hope — an American player inspired by both Serena Williams and her older sister, fellow star Venus Williams, that may be able to carry the sisters' legacy of dominance, and even surpass the achievements of other teenage tennis phenoms before her.
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The cataclysm that befell the island is, by all accounts, horrific: scores of communities with roads and telephones cut off; hospitals with dwindling fuel for generators; once verdant vistas reduced to acres of spindly trees stripped of leaves; tens of thousands of homes blasted into splintered piles of timber; and people left rationing crackers and whatever water they can scavenge.
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And there was the restless physicality of the genome, the way it arranged itself during cell division into 23 spindly pairs of chromosomes that could be stained and studied under a microscope, and then somehow, when cell replication was through, merged back together into a baffling, ever-wriggling ball of chromatin — DNA wrapped in a protective packaging of histone proteins.
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Against the backdrop of withered trees and the spindly access road winding up to the interstate (the sound of autoshifting, faint, as if in dreams) is a sight that looks weird from the outside four generic, same uncolor, equally worn Bigurls, lined up next to one another, making the rest of the lot seem even more vacant than if it had been completely empty.
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Among the thousands of stolen insects pulled straight from your nightmares, the thieves allegedly stole a bunch of warty glowspot roaches, which look about as horrifying as they sound; some venomous red spot assassin bugs, predators with an extremely painful bite that look like they crawled straight out of the mouth of Hell; and one six-eyed sand spider, a spindly, easily camouflaged monster whose venom can literally kill you.
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In his own home, McNanney is still constantly rearranging to make room for new finds, but a few important pieces always stay put: Beside the kitchen sink, there's a spindly legged 19th-century British wooden cupboard he bought in installments, at the age of 20, from a Manhattan antique store (paying $50 a week for five months) while working at John Derian's home décor shop in the East Village.
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There was something both haunting and haunted about all of it, and what came after—spindly Dee Gordon hitting a home run in Fernandez's jersey and circling the bases in tears before being embraced by a swarm of teammates also in Fernandez's jersey, beefy Justin Bour bellyflopping into third in Fernandez's jersey, the ball circling the infield after strikeouts from one Fernandez to another—seemed simultaneously loaded with significance and insignificant to the point of insufficiency.
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