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...Crow pages. In 1956, the Wilmington, N.C., Star went to press with a frontpage photo of four Marines who were to testify in the court-martial of a drill instructor charged with brutality. When an editor noticed that one of the witnesses was black, he ordered an employee to chisel the Negro's image out of the press plate. The paper appeared with a ragged white space where the black face had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Things You Didn't Do, Boy | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...February, Scott Meadow, Harvard's bodybuilding phenomenon, worked out in obscurity for four-and-a-half hours a day in a converted squash court in Dunster House. His only aim was to "chisel out an art form" for the coming "Mr. Collegiate USA" contest in April...

Author: By John Blondel, | Title: Scott Meadow Muscles Way Into the Limelight | 5/18/1976 | See Source »

...major motivation became clear, even to himself, only recently. An athlete and art enthusiast for most of his years, Meadow found that bodybuilding "allows me to incorporate art and sport. I built myself into a hulk of flesh and now am sculpting myself out. Self-discipline is my chisel...

Author: By John Blondel, | Title: Scott Meadow, Esthetic Bodybuilder | 2/27/1976 | See Source »

...dignity and beauty of timeless artworks has always been an uplifting emotional experience for me. I have always left museums feeling enriched and proud of what sensitive men and women can create from an empty canvas with paints and a brush, from unformed stone or wood with a chisel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPOONING ART | 2/18/1976 | See Source »

...year at Manhattan U., ostensibly because of the controversy his film script has created in America. The name of the film, of course, is changed: Enderby has adapted Gerard Manley Hopkins's The Wreck of the Deutschland for the screen, to be produced and directed by Melvin Schaumwein. Chisel Productions. His reasons for the crude adaptation is that the film might lead people to read the poem, which is recognizably better art. But instead, the film, warped by the director to include a nun's gang bang, provokes widespread rage when some youths charged with raping a nun claim...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: A Clockwork Lemon | 2/13/1975 | See Source »

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