Word: chiseler
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This month state-fair boards across the U.S. are handing out prize money to brush-and-chisel wielders as well as to cattle breeders and mincemeat experts. In most states painting and sculpture are displayed with the poultry, corn and hogs that sunburned fair visitors take...
...Harootian's Sea Bird also owed much to the stone it came from-a 4-ft.-high slab of onyx. Pocked with chisel marks, it successfully simulated the feathery plunge of the bird; polished, it represented the wet scales of the fish. Der Harootian had deliberately exaggerated the size of the fish and taken vast liberties with the shape of the bird. The fact that they seemed far less abstract than they were in actuality was a measure of the sculptor's power to create illusion without slavish copying...
...honor the old tradition of "measuring" the figure with a piece of white binding tape that would later hang in their huts as a souvenir. Then they went back to the dusty hill towns that had seen nothing new since the gold boom had passed and Aleijadinho, his chisel lashed to the stump of a rotting arm, had hewn his greatest monument...
...very moment when the Dail met to elect a Taoiseach (literally: leader) , Dev had been hopeful. Of the splinter parties which had ended his Fianna Fall majority, he cracked scornfully: "Many a chisel has lost chips, but did you ever see anybody collecting the chips and trying to make another chisel out of them...
...best nude in the Clay Club show-a pink marble La Victoire-was done by 43-year-old Burr Miller, who was once intercollegiate wrestling champion at Yale. "You have to chisel down to the skin," explained ex-Wrestler Miller, cupping his square hands, "and not a fraction farther...