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...Long Island beach. That was when he conceived the idea for his sand-sculpturing technique. Now his most important sculpture is made by modeling details in reverse patterns in wet sand and then filling these molds with concrete or plaster of paris. The result is a kind of bas-relief...
...18th century Violinist-Composer Tartini, then gradually, smoothly warm up to entrancing modernity. All of the movements seem to weave Tartini's melodies serenely for a while, then get involved in the implications of their own patterns; at other times the old tunes appear in a kind of bas-relief against a background of alien dissonance. A fascinating composition...
ABOVE the entrance to the Sterling Law Buildings at Yale, there are two panels of bas relief. One shows a medieval classroom with the professor asleep; the other pictures an ancient courtroom with the judge asleep...
...officials dedicated a cemetery containing the graves of some 700 Russians and more than 1,300 Yugoslavs. All had died just ten years before, in a battle to liberate Yugoslavia's capital from the Nazis. A string was pulled and a sheet fell away to unveil a large bas-relief showing Red army soldiers and Yugoslav partisans driving at German troops...
...Harvard Club meeting in Philadelphia, and in appreciation, the group told' the band to go out and buy itself a bass drum. It did go out and buy a bass drum. The biggest one in the world, in fact, specially made, at a cost of about $2000. The band bas not played for the Associated Harvard Clubs since...