There were the hiking boots I've had since high school, so battered that one Sunday, near the Delaware Water Gap, the rubber sole started to crumble off in chunks.
They have required reinforcement by special steel pillars that hold in place chain-link fencing to capture any coal as it crumbles off the walls.
Most local residents think of the church less for its robust stonework or dramatic bell tower than for the ubiquitous scaffolding protecting passers-by from chunks of sandstone crumbling off its facade -- and for the homeless people.
"When you look at the map, you can see America kind of crumble off into the sinews down in the gulf where the land is getting eaten up," he said.
Inside, Soviet anthems blare out from a creaking old radio, the paint is not so much chipping as crumbling off in blocks, the few striplights that are working are flickering maddeningly, and damp swarms over the walls like triffids.
"You don't intend to wear these outside, do you?" There were the hiking boots I've had since high school, so battered that one Sunday, near the Delaware Water Gap, the rubber sole started to crumble off in chunks.
Alibar joined up with an old pal, Benh Zeitlin, who had directed only shorts before, and who said of his interests, "When you look at the map, you can see America kind of crumble off into the sinews down in the gulf where the land is getting eaten up.
The steam from the nuts will loosen the skins, and they should crumble off easily.
In this method, the protruding propagules become dry and brittle during the regular wet/dry cycles of the lichen, and can easily crumble off the thallus.
