Word: clay
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...reason for choosing ceramics over any other artistic medium or any other lifestyle is remarkable in that—as far as he explained—there really wasn’t one. At that age, he had no great love for or experience in the art of working clay...
Another recent, impressive project of his is entitled “Big Sword.” A government funded project, he created four colossal clay sculptures memorializing the sacking of Nanking by the Japanese in World War II. Rectangular obelisk-like structures that are bronze castings of his original ceramic sculptures, these works are the largest scale sculptures ever produced in China. Remarkably organic and vibrant, human figures emerge from this giant mass of clay, but they are all connected, on top of or next to one another, all part of the same edifice. An entire park in Beijing...
...third game followed the precedent set by the first two, with the Crimson taking a slight advantage, but the Pride recovered with a kill to go up, 16-15. The two teams then exchanged points until Pride swingman Clay Spiegel reeled off two consecutive service aces to break open the game...
...January 2001, Lay wrote to Clay Johnson, the White House personnel director, with a list of some eight candidates to be considered for presidential appointments. And Bush duly named two of Lay's picks to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees the nation's electricity and gas markets. Since they are where Enron made most of its money, this...
...would become Muhammad Ali," says Smith. Mann kept Ali's story at manageable length by focusing only on the civil rights and Vietnam years, when Ali "occupied his most profound importance." Mann's final screenplay, written with Eric Roth, begins in 1964, when the young Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston out of the world heavyweight championship. Fresh off his victory, he publicly and unapologetically announces his devotion to the Nation of Islam - a black Muslim group that white America at the time considered a serious, militant threat - and takes an Arabic name. He's stripped of his title...