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Over the past two months, more and more large cement pipes have sprung up around the sides of the building. Recently, blockades and gravel were put infront of the castle, and a bulldozer was spotteddumping yet more gravel in the area yesterday...
...student," he said of his marijuana-smoking days. "I was out having a good time, being a normal American kid." But when the ski team suspended him at 16, his father, a contractor, hauled him up to the Aleutian Islands for a summer of 16-hour workdays. "He shoveled gravel," recalled Tom Sr. "He crawled on all fours." Moe Jr. straightened out. Since then he has put in six grueling years on the World Cup circuit, racing from one mountain to another...
...pubic ravine, breasts like boulders, their stretch marks and blotches half- echoing the surface texture of the girl's cloth. The strength of her presence isn't due just to her depicted fatness but to the way the image burgeons from dense paint, a heavy mass like cream with gravel in it. For in his own way Freud has done (in this picture and others) what Velazquez did: assimilate the life of the subject to the life of the paint surface and of each gesture held in it. Very few painters can do this. It is not a trick. This...
...concert grounds in Ulysses, Pennsylvania, down a gravel road off Route 49, on property of a white supremacist named "Chip" Kreis, a weekend-long rock concert is about to begin. A rock concert whose spectators do not appreciate the press. Someone says to a TIME reporter, "I want to be smiling, I want to get little dimples in my cheeks when I read that article. 'Cause if I don't, I'm going to come and fing kill you, do you understand? I'm not f ---ing joking, man -- look me in the face -- I'm going to find...
...construction, which involved clearing the backyard of trees and grass and replacing it with gravel and pavement, was one of many projects in the past three months the landlord authorized. Many of the tenants believe that the construction is an attempt to force old tenants to leave in order to find new tenants willing to pay higher rent...