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Instead, he drags the reader with him down the broken, cluttered stairs into what he calls the Excavation, the dark, smelly rooms stuffed with boxes and piles of books and papers and junk and old clothes, where Norton paces up and down swinging the holdall he carries everywhere, brooding about The Monster or a bus timetable or concocting revolting meals of kippers boiled in the tin.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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This first book, like Excavation, is really a cross-genre novel, a mix of ALL the tropes of my favorite genres: a mainstream thriller at heart, but with a bit of mystery and a dark current of sci-fi/fantasy coursing throughout it.
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Excavation is a necessary first step towards lunar resource utilization, and the unique physical properties of lunar regolith make excavation a difficult technical challenge.
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Excavation is a necessary first step towards lunar resource utilization, and the unique physical properties of lunar regolith make excavation a difficult technical challenge.
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Excavation is a lottery, and the prizes vary in number and value.
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A fourth excavation, known as Excavation Q, yielded at a depth of three feet six inches to four feet six inches, ten flint axes, one sandstone axe, nine edged flint hammer-stones, four rounded flint hammer-stones, ten Sarsen hammers, and seven mauls, weighing from thirty-six to fifty-eight and a half pounds.
Stonehenge Today and Yesterday Frank Stevens 1896
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When Willem de Kooning painted his epic "Excavation," an abstracted image of a mass grave, he had only seen news photos of what happened in Germany.
John Seed: Frank Lobdell: "Nothing Worth Anything Is Easy" John Seed 2011
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When Willem de Kooning painted his epic "Excavation," an abstracted image of a mass grave, he had only seen news photos of what happened in Germany.
John Seed: Frank Lobdell: "Nothing Worth Anything Is Easy" John Seed 2011
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From the elegantly Picassoid "Seated Woman" (1940) to the breakthrough 1950 "Excavation," de Kooning took on the task of reconciling the rigid infrastructure and woozy subconscious of modem painting with the sheer talent of the old masters.
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He was almost 48 before he received his first serious check, when the Art Institute of Chicago bought an early masterpiece, "Excavation," for $4,000.
DE-LOVELY DE KOONING 2007
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