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Last week-33 years, 275 days and 18 hours after a chisel smashed the skull of 14-year-old Bobby Franks - the summons came to Prisoner 9306-D in Stateville
House Broken. In Detroit, police said that Freddie Washington smashed a rear window in trying to rob a bar, found himself locked in the washroom, climbed out and ran home for a chisel, screwdriver and knife, went back in the same window, broke into the bar, returned to the washroom, where he was still hiding when police arrived...
...greater refinement of expression. In dealing directly with problems of drawing, via lithography, Barlach's result becomes highly tenuous, unsure, and often completely confused. The same attempt at vitality employed to convey vignettes brutal in subject falters and emerges much weaker in its substitution of the crayon for the chisel or cutter. Faced with a flexibility and opportunity for nuance far greater than that offered in the woodcut process, Barlach's "expressionism" becomes less expressive...
Analysis rapidly disclosed that the written material consisted of charms and prayers; the other objects were symbols, principally of the five oldtime Chinese elements or forces essential to life (fire, water, air, wood, metal). But no document was found to show when Golden Boy had been fashioned, though rough chisel marks on the wood were typical of techniques used in the 10th and 11th centuries. From the statue's contents, the scholars concluded that the first operation was probably performed some 300 years ago by Tibetan monks, who installed a new set of innards...
...most of the sculpting has been done by dynamite and bulldozer, but Ziolkowski hopes to get within six inches of the lines of the face by the end of this summer. Then he can get down to detailed carving with jackhammer, and finally with mallet and chisel. On top of his mountain he can see far into the future. "There is where the university will be," he says, "and over here the medical center. The series of lakes will run down that meadow. There will be an airstrip, 7,200 feet long, out there by the highway...