Word: clay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third highrise will loom on Boylston Street, midway between the Kennedy Center and the center of the Square. Soil engineers, contracted by Cambridge landlord Max Wasserman, are testing the peat and clay subsoil to determine what size structure the ground can economically support. The land is zoned for both office space and housing; given the relative surplus of office space in the Boston area, the choice will probably be housing...
...Worldly Music, Hill presented 15 campaign songs from forgotten elections, many of them set to popular tunes of their day: "Oh dear, what can the matter be?/Women are wanting to vote!"; a rollicking boast of "Hoorah, hoorah, the country's risin'/ For Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen" to the tune of Old Dan Tucker; and a plaintive complaint about Prohibition with Old Black Joe's lyrics changed to "I'm thirsty, I'm thirsty/For the beer we used to know./I hear the gentle voices cal-ling,/'Have one, Joe.' " The truly grand...
...virtuoso in every medium from clay to rubber, from stainless steel to Plexiglas, and his involvement with craft sometimes gives his images a cer tain preciousness. His newest works, The Souls, are slabs of aspic-like silicon gel, none of them bigger than a sheet of typing paper, in which objects are set and, as it were, embalmed. The gel has the disconcerting resiliency of flesh-it feels vulnerable and intimate-while its contents, which may be any thing from a cut-out decal of a rain bow trout to a diminutive plastic air plane, exhale a delicate poetry...
...match--Harvard's last before this weekend's New England chanpionships--was played in a light rain on Yale's clay courts...
Army is usually one of the tougher teams in the East but are weaker than usual this year. "They still can't be discounted because they fight hard and won't give up easily especially on clay," Nielson said yesterday...