Word: clay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catering Service is expected to serve what Congressman William clay calls a "national black legislative agenda" to the Democratic Platform Committee. Clay, who was just elected to the House in 1969, has emerged as a principle chef of the Catering Service, and serves as the Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. The two-day forum here last week was clearly a part of his recipe for making the Ethnic Catering Service's dish all the more irresistible come chow-time in Miami...
LATE Friday afternoon, after all the formal sessions of the conference were over, William Clay sat in a red lounge chair in the Union trying to forget the sun was in his eyes and perhaps also forget that there were still reporters asking him questions...
...also an unlikely philanderer, pale and mild-mannered. But according to Lora Gudbranson, 40, the wife of a naval supply officer, she and Jensen made love in a motel near the base last July 8. Testifying for the defense, Dr. Clay Wickham told the court that at the time the skin around Jensen's midsection had been covered with "a rash and boils," which would have made sex a painful enterprise at best. A character witness, Captain Thomas Loomis, who had served aboard the carrier Ticonderoga with Jensen, offered a well-meant if ill-phrased testimonial. Jensen, he said...
...screen does have its drawbacks. The lousy quality of the t.v. picture turns out to be fuzzy photography. Kong looks suspiciously furless: unbelievers might have trouble forgetting he's a clay model. But even incorrigible cynics will find their reward in the newly visible detail, e.g. the black extras who can't keep straight faces during the village crisis...
...classic themes of the erect or reclining figure, the portrait and the nude. But only a few early modern sculptors - Rodin, Bourdelle and Degas in old age - achieved the same vitality of surface and gesture. One can hardly imagine more joy communicated by the act of squeezing clay, and though Matisse's sculpture has had little effect on later artists, it still remains an exquisite testament to the douceur de vivre that he strove all his life to bring into form...