Word: clay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This process begins with Frank's preferred material, clay. Her larger recumbent figures, like Lovers, 1974, are pieced together from a dozen separate elements, each made of a clay sheet fired in the kiln. The manipulated sheet, rather than the solid lump, is the basis of her formal syntax. The clay can be molded. It sags in pleats and thick drapes. It can be rapidly scratched, poked and cut. It retains an air of spontaneity, for Frank knows where to leave a shape before it loses its sketchlike character. Harder sculptural materials, like wood, metal or stone, connote resistance...
...refused to start, but by parade time the 1903 Model A was purring nicely. The driver, William Clay Ford, younger brother of Henry II, led 75 Ford cars through Dearborn, Mich., to celebrate the company's 75th anniversary. For Ford, 53, known to sports fans as the owner of the Detroit Lions, the parade was his first public appearance as chairman of the company's executive committee. How does William feel about his new job? "Unless somebody invents a day with more than 24 hours," he says, "more time at the company means less time with the Lions...
...process a nation of characters. Their names have changed from book to book and story to story, but they have remained fixed in their variety: rabbis and sinners, intellectuals and simpletons, rationalists and mystics, world savers and fatalists. Singer's art has transformed them all into uncommon clay...
...study, 25 of 66 major industrial groups showed outright declines in the hourly output of their workers in 1977. As a whole, the rate of rise in productivity in the manufacturing sector slowed markedly last year to only 2.2%, vs. 6.8% in 1976. The biggest drops were in clay-working (down 7.4%), grain-milling (7.1%) and footwear (4.3%) industries. Productivity in the coal industry fell...
...State Department, which blessedly goes on from President to President, crisis to crisis, they reached back for some wisdom attributed to Henry Clay, a Secretary of State himself, and a man who knew something about leadership: "I cannot at this juncture clearly foretell the outcome, but I counsel you to cultivate calmness of mind and prepare for the worst...