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Amending the U.S. Constitution usually takes years. It is rarely done. As Chief Justice John Marshall said, the Constitution should be "a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means." When one is working in marble, it is not wise to doodle, or use the chisel impulsively. But precisely because the chances of succeeding with an amendment are remote, there has always been something satisfyingly theatrical and essentially safe about proposing amendments to enshrine various panaceas, transcendent gripes, noble urges and crackpot illuminations. The process is a little like the custom of nominating obscure favorite sons at political conventions, not because...
...favorite (American) kind of entertainment, while soothing consciences about any collective guilt. These men are good; They are soldiers, not Nazis, Mostly they are dark-haired, Southern-spoken. Only one "overgrows Hitlerjugend," as the captain calls him, shows a tendency toward uniform-worship and blond Aryan arrogance. The tall, chisel-cheeked heroes of Leni Riefenstahl could never fit in the low ceilings and grime of a submarine...
...Baron Guy de Rothschild, 72, waving his hand at the empty black lacquered walls of his office on the seventh floor at 21 Rue Laffitte in Paris. Indeed, the art works by Bernard Buffet and Francis Picabia have been packed away, and out front workmen are getting ready to chisel the famous family name out of the sandstone above the entryway. Reason: the Banque Rothschild is being nationalized by the socialist government of French President François Mitterrand, along with the country's other major banks and holding companies. The Rothschilds, who are stepping out of the bank...
There he began by fashioning bases and frames for all kinds of artifacts, some honestly old, others imitations. "Dealers used to bring in all these fakes to be mounted," Yas recalls. "I thought I could make better ones." He was soon experimenting with stone and chisel, and just four years ago he sold his first reproduction, a small torso carved in the style of 11th century Angkor...
...impatient person before I came here," he says with a grin. "Now I'm building something to last ten thousand years." Then he's off in a flurry of stone chips as he puts down his first draft, a half-inch cut, the width of the chisel, along the stone's edge. When he began with Bambridge, it took him three days to make an ashlar. Now he can turn one out in 15 minutes. Jamieson, an ex-butcher, has completed 18 months of his four-year apprenticeship. He finished second in a recent stonecutting competition...