Word: chiselling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deserves." Orwell was dead at 46; but Eastwood, who turned 50 on May 31, keeps trucking man fully through middle age with the face his movies deserve- sun-burnished, granite-hard, seamed and serene like an outdoor sculpture. His achievement in Bronco Billy, as star and director, is to chisel some emotion and innocence, and a passel of likability, into those features. It is as if one of the faces on Mount Rushmore suddenly cracked a crooked smile. Watching Bronco Billy, millions of moviegoers are likely to smile back. - Richard Corliss
...texture from polished to roughly pecked stone. That, too, is a metaphor of larger geological events: in some real landscapes the mountain does not rise; the softer plain around it is removed inch by inch, by erosion, a process mimicked in sculpture by the action of Noguchi's chisel and grinder...