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...more advanced were the later Quimbaya Indians of Colombia, who discovered how to make alloys of gold and copper and also mastered the sophisticated "lost-wax" technique of casting. First, the Indians made a model of the sculpture in beeswax or resin and covered it with a powdered charcoal and then a thick layer of clay. Next, they applied heat, melting the wax so that it ran out a channel in the hardened clay impression. They then used the impression as a breakable mold, pouring the molten gold in through the channel in the clay. It is the same method...
Olsen often loads his incidents-and his sentences-with more detail than they can support, and a certain awkwardness results: " 'How are your wounds?' Marie Tiviroli, the golden-haired princess of Steccola, said when she awakened in the abandoned charcoal hut between Cadotto and her home." But when the material is treated simply, it embeds itself in the reader's imagination. For example, in Olsen's handling of the postman, who thought the best thing to do under the circumstances was to walk his usual route burdened with letters for the dead. Or his description...
Clerks for the state supreme court justices have grabbed up most of the briefs printed. I managed to get one of the secretaries working for Joseph J. Balliro, Baird's attorney, to lend me a copy for a day. A grey looking fellow in a charcoal three-piece suit cornered me in an elevator in the court building when he saw what I had in my hand and made me swear up and down that I could not tell him where to find another copy...
...Charcoal-Filtered. Although 1,200 lbs. to 1,500 lbs. of stored water would normally be necessary to sustain a crew of four on a 60-day mission, the California students embarked with only 80 lbs.- plus a 200-lb. retrieval system that recovers water from both urine and moisture in the cabin atmosphere. As urine is collected, it is pumped over an array of felt wicks. Air is drawn into the system from the cabin, heated to more than 110° F. and blown across the soggy wicks. The heated air, containing cabin moisture, picks up additional moisture from...
...collection's Picassos include oils, charcoal drawings and an inkwash. "Picador with Figures" which is monumental and timeless. Although the Picassos are well worth seeing, it is in the work of his contemporary, the late Georges Braque (1882-1963) that the growth of a master can be more fully traced...