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Word: chiselers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 »

...time, he remained appallingly insensitive to the true evils of the Hitler regime. "His self-confidence thickened into arrogance," said English Writer Harold Nicolson, an old friend. "His mind had been sharpened by fame and tragedy until it had become as hard, as metallic and as narrow as a chisel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Lone Eagle's Final Flight | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...metaphor that infuriates both liberated women and spirited youth. God holds in his hands a hammer (symbolizing a husband). The husband/hammer bangs a chisel (representing the obedient wife) that "chips away the rough edges" to turn a diamond in the rough (a teenager) into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Obey Thy Husband | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

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