Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This year's election will be won door to door and block by block, and we'll need more members," Neer said...
They were an image in flight, the field events members of the 1975-76 indoor track team. One year later, the mental picture that remains is one of their gravity-defying feats: Mel Embree floating almost weightlessly over the high jump bar; Hunt Block extending his legs in mid-air, stretching for every last inch in the long jump; massive Dan Jiggets whipping the 35-lb. weight in a high, long arc; Ahmedj Kayali grimacing and gyrating, on his way to another triple-jump victory...
With the loss of Block and Embree in the long jump, the only promising competitor in that even is freshman Cliff Lenz. "We're starting from scratch," McCurdy said...
...enough balk of timber to carve something as big as Michelangelo's David. Even if there was such a tree, there would be insuperable problems of technique. Wood is grainy. It favors continuous, compressed shapes with a strong axis along the grain. Anything that sticks sideways from the block-an arm, say-is weak and splits off. Hence the elongated, torpedo-like form of a Shinto deity from Japan's Kamakura period (12th-14th centuries)-a courtier, oddly clownlike in his peaked cap and baggy pants, but carved with a reductive formal elegance that might have inspired Brancusi...
Joints and Antique Gravity. Being made from a single block, the figure has cracked badly: wood dries faster on the surface than at the core. To avoid this kind of damage, some Chinese and Japanese sculptors hollowed out their work from behind. This could not be done with freestanding pieces, but it suited the nature of some ritual objects-images kept in a fixed spot and seen from the front. In general, as the woodcarving tradition developed, artists preferred to assemble their work from segments of wood pinned and jointed together. The Japanese, who did most to develop this method...