Word: adds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Essential Gesture. Each cast comes off after about 20 minutes. By slopping on water, Segal can rework the cast days or months later. "Originally, I thought casting would be fast and direct, like photography, but I found that I had to rework every square inch. I add or subtract detail, create a flow or break up an area by working with creases and angles. I'm shaping forms...
...overtime, a miner can bring home $200, a tidy sum in the hill country. Besides, the mines are heavy tax producers for the states in which they are located. Thus it requires a great deal of courage to speak out in favor of safety precautions and equipment that can add to the operating costs of the mines...
Where once the good, honest words "roast beef" sufficed, restaurateurs now add something like "blue-ribbon beef, thick and juicy." Diners know from experience that the steer got nowhere near a blue ribbon until it was served with a bottle of Pabst. From coast to coast, mashed potatoes appear on menus as "snowflake, creamery-whipped potatoes"; all vegetables, whether frozen, canned or left over from yesterday, are called "garden fresh." In Minneapolis, broiled rock lobster tails turn into "Queen of Hearts"; in Los Angeles, capon becomes "Tower of London"; in New York, string beans metamorphose into "Long Johns." The Hawaiian...
...Cambridge City Council voted Monday night to grant a 23 per cent pay raise to City firemen and police over the next two years, making them the highest paid in the Commonwealth. The raises will cost Cambridge about $1,500,000 and will add five dollars to the tax rate...
...add, too, that in the opinion of many others besides myself, yours is the worst educated, the least aware, and in many ways the most inept set of young people that has ever come to Harvard. And instead of doing all you can to correct what is, after all, an eminently correctable situation, you seem to be all out to acerbate it, by refusing to admit your ignorance, and by being completely unwilling to learn from others! Jerome Minot