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...smaller pieces are made of tubing that can be heated and bent like silvery glass. The larger pieces begin as metal sheets, painstakingly cut and hammered into shape. When De Rivera is satisfied with a sculpture, he files and polishes it until its surface, made as sensitive to light as possible, dances with reflections that make it seem to flow with life. The works are often shown on slowly revolving turntables...
...steel auto accessories but were frustrated by "rust-free aluminum" ("I'm having a bad time, Salty. This side trim is aluminum"). Setting out to do likewise, Great Lakes Steel has recently sponsored commercials in which "Lulu La Lumium," a Tallulah-voiced aluminum bumper, is constantly banged and bent by a steel bumper with a strong masculine voice. Sample dialogue...
Compounds that contain calcium arsenate, for example, may damage annual bluegrass; those containing dacthal and zytron can harm fescues and bent grasses. Two new chemicals, calcium propyl arsenate and diphenatrile, have yet to be fully proved in all conditions. And as good as they are, none of the killers are 100% effective. Besides, no chemical can control the fellow next door, whose grass crabbed because he didn't use Don't, and as a result the pest inches stealthily across the property line carrying the seeds (about 50,000 per plant) of a monstrous population explosion...
...days. Put on wax in the early '20s, these performances are a reminder that the King of the Kings was the late Clarinetist Leon Rappolo, whose solos in such numbers as Tiger Rag and the title song (also known as Jazzin' Babies) are taut as a bent...
...soul of a child, argued Montessori, develops through "periods of sensitivity," when he has a preternatural bent to walk, talk, or advance in some other respect. These periods must be nurtured; the child must be allowed to take utmost advantage of his yearning to master chaos. Since success encourages learning, the child must also move at his own pace, step by step, gaining confidence through competence. To guarantee all this, Montessori developed what she called "the prepared environment"-a system in essence much like today's programed learning...