Word: chisel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police investigation revealed nothing, and Webster no doubt breathed a sign of relief. But he failed to consider Ephraim Littlefield, his janitor. On Wednesday Littlefield attacked the bricked-up vault in the basement with a chisel. Two days later he finally broke through the wall. "I managed to get my light and my head into the hole, and then I was not disturbed with the draft. I held my light forward, and the first thing which I saw was the pelvis of a man, and two parts of a leg. I knew that it was no place for these things...
Bernard Reder has, in a sense, been perennially out of fashion. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he has always disliked modeling in clay, preferring to work with hammer and chisel. Even today, though he now models in wax, the material that gives him the most spontaneity, he still approaches each work as if it were to be hewn out of a mass. "I am a sculptor," says he, "who enters the volume: always I conserve the block." This concept of "volumetricity" is basic to his art. Each statue, says Reder, must be seen from all sides and not just frontally...
...French coal miners, whose output is now among the lowest in Western Europe, will soon be operating a cutter-loader machine that can chisel out 45 metric tons of coal per man-day in the shaft. The new cutter-loader and other advanced French mining machinery is being sold to customers in 49 countries, including Britain...
...creating God the Father, he himself was God the Mother ... on his lonely truckle bed high in the heavens, going through parturition to deliver a race of immortals." Out of tons of this quarried prose rises The Agony and the Ecstasy-a kind of sculptorama fashioned with a slipped chisel...
Already Parisian shoe stores are selling copies of Vivier's square-toed look for as little as $6 a pair. In the U.S., shoemen anticipate that the chisel-toed look will take longer to catch on. But by fall, fashion setters bet that the feet of U.S. women will show that they too have gone square...