Word: blowtorched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walked through the American exhibit, I didn't see America anywhere." What Robertson saw and did not like broke down as: ¶ Too much modern art. An admitted fan of Norman Rockwell's Satevepost covers, Robertson did a slow burn at acres of abstract art and blowtorch sculpture which looked, he said, as if it had been put together by a "bunch of neurotics." "When I walked out, my mind was a complete blank...
...Meals by Blowtorch. The five cars on the odyssey made an odd lot. The heftiest, a four-cylinder Itala, weighed in at two tons and worked up to 40 h.p. The others: a couple of two-cylinder, 10-h.p. De Dions, a 15 h.p. Spyker, and a tiny (6 h.p.) three-wheel Tri-Contal. Before they had covered 20 miles, all the cars needed coolies to haul them most of the rest of the way to Kalgan, on the edge of the desert...
...World Reputation. At 22, Maria made tracks for Vienna and the famous Burgtheater. the sum and summit of the German theatrical tradition. She never quite made it. A film director named Karl Hartl met her in a cafe, felt the burn of her blowtorch intensity, and offered her on the spot the lead in the picture he was casting. She took the job, and pretty soon any number of Herzen, as the romantic rumors had it, were beating in Dreivierteltakt. She was simultaneously supposed to be in love with Producer Ernst Lothar, with a cameraman named Günther Anders...
Alcatraz screws, tipped off, found that Green and at least two other convicts had hidden escape tools in compartments chipped in the bottom of toilet basins. Among the tools, all fashioned from materials in the prison workshops: a blowtorch made from a large grease cup, a brace and bit from pipe parts. Remarking on the careful preparation, Bennett recalled Green's earnest promise of two years before. "All the time he was talking to me," said Bennett, "he was probably planning his next blast-out attempt...
...sculptor-welders, Lardera got his start in 1944 in war-damaged Florence when he found twisted chunks of iron and scrap in the rubble, and began to use metal instead of stone. He sketches his sculptural idea on paper before cutting up sheets of metal with shears and blowtorch, then welds the pieces together into the finished product. Over the years he has also learned to unite copper and iron, and graft brightly colored mosaics into his metal creations. An admirer of Calder's mobiles, Lardera says: "Where Calder really introduces movement, I try to give the impression...