Word: chiselling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...reason is that Angel never carves his figures direct; he first models them in clay, lets professional stone-carvers copy them, then adds the final touches. Last week Saint John, in stone, was ready for Angel's chisel. A carver still labored on the pedestal, but the Saint stood clear, listening above the mallet...
...Laboratoire des Hallucinations is the story of a doctor who discovers that a patient is his wife's lover and graphically operates on the fellow's brain. At the first opportunity, the crazed patient retaliates by graphically hammering a chisel into the doctor's brain...
...Michelangelo Buonarroti . . . wore stockings of dogskin for months together, and when he took them off the skin of the leg sometimes came with them." Once, Pier Soderini (a Florentine politician) said he thought the nose of the David too short, so Michelangelo "took his chisel and a little loose marble dust in his hand and climbed the scaffolding. As he tapped lightly on the chisel, he let the marble dust drift down. 'I like it better now,' said Soderini. 'You have given it life...
Eddie Dyer had so many pitchers he needed toes and fingers to count them. Most promising: a 30-year-old Oklahoma newcomer, chisel-chinned ex-Corporal Fred Martin, who has poise, a sizzling fastball, a good curve, a tricky sinker and, most important of all, control. Everywhere Manager Dyer looked he saw more talent than he could use. His problem: which players-especially which pitchers-to sell...