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...tells about the mating of a steel Superman with a cast iron Superwoman, and he makes noises that suggest a 20-ton, front-end loader scooping up a Caterpillar tractor and heading off into the bush. "You know how they had to deliver the baby?" he asks. "With a blowtorch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: The Polite Generation | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...loft-waif of Lower Manhattan, used to do terra-cotta animals, turned to something called "soot drawings" while on a Fulbright in Rome, five years ago started making little boxes of metal rods with canvas sides stitched on with copper wire, treated with sizing for tautness, scorched with a blowtorch for blackness. From there, the elaborate wall structures grew. "I wanted to get sculpture off the floor-sculptures standing on the floor, they don't have anything to do with anything; they're so heavy and, well, I just wanted to get them off the floor." Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Loft-Waif | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...West London room that looks like the Pharaoh's tomb of a junkman. There are bales of yellowed newspapers, moldy tennis rackets, scattered bureau drawers, a sink bowl, and a disconnected gas stove graced with a gilt plaster Buddha. There is a lawn mower and a blowtorch. On a rope strung from the leaky roof hangs a paint bucket into which drops of water plunk like the tick-tock of doom. Into this dusty, chilly tomb, English Playwright Pinter deposits three mummies of modern man, who proceed to strip off each other's wrappings with ripples of humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Unwrapping Mummies | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

...Want." When Murtaugh sits on the bench among his Pirates, he is the classic domineering manager. He peers dourly at the diamond from beneath a black hedgerow of eyebrows. His nose is splayed flat, his beard would discourage a blowtorch, a corner of his mouth leaks tobacco juice. But Murtaugh is in fact a gentle ogre who sips milk after a game, claims he never touches the hard stuff, and keeps his hairy hands off the Pirates. Murtaugh realizes full well that overmanaging would cramp the egos-and crimp the play-of the bunch of oddly assorted personalities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two for the Money? | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

...Bernaola, who runs a durable 1928 Ford sedan: "I average 150 miles daily, and in 14 hours I use about 15 gallons of gas and about a quart of oil. The motor is in fairly good shape, only in winter I have to heat it with a blowtorch for about 15 minutes to get it started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Life Begins at 30 | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

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