Word: clay
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Dillehay has also uncovered traces of what may be an even older campsite nearby on a buried promontory. The evidence: 26 fractured stones, some of which were clearly worked by human hands, as well as three clay-lined pits containing charcoal that may be nearly 33,000 years old. Although radiocarbon dating supports this idea, Dillehay is reluctant to draw any conclusions. "The older level is a hell of a problem," he says, "and it simply will not go away. The more I look at the evidence, the more it looks like it represents human culture, but intellectually I still...
...Columbia really had the advantage on clay," said junior Kendra Harris, who earned a singles win for the Crimson. "Our team hadn't played on clay for two or three years...
...They used their drop shots well, and it was hard for us to move on clay," said Harris, who pulled out a three-set win after losing a first-set tie-breaker to Columbia's Mona Majmudar...
Sandman, without question, steals the show as a music legend with clay feet. Linus Crump is a difficult role, probably the most complex in the play, and Sandman could easily have played the character as nothing more than an asshole. But he manages to humanize Linus, allowing the audience to actually empathize with a rich, spoiled rock star looking for a way to escape. Sandman provides a semi-serious counterpoint to Fortunato and Sun's comic antics...
...past, so they look forward to the more modern artists: the massive strong men and pathetic acrobats of Picasso's Rose Period are already in Daumier's carnival scenes. Giacometti was deeply influenced not only by Daumier's drawing but by his series of tiny, malignant caricature-sculptures in clay known as Les Celebrites du Juste Milieu...