Word: clay
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...chilly morning outside the hamlet of Reykjahlid in northern Iceland, Hallgrimur Jonasson lifts the edge of a soggy plank of wood lying in the clay to expose a small hole in the ground. "This is the rye-bread bakery," he says, yanking his hand back from a waft of scalding, sulfurous steam. A chef in a nearby hotel, Jonasson estimates his kitchen staff bake roughly three tons of the sweet, dense rye bread in the hole every summer to meet the growing demand, mostly from tourists, for the exotic carb. The bread's price tag - up nearly 20% from last...
...world, offering a modest contribution in return for two samples of the local currency. He would sell one and keep the other, a self-financing collection that eventually grew to more than 200,000 pieces--from ancient Etruscan rings and Incan gold to Kenyan elephant tails and Babylonian clay tablets, all of which he kept in a vault in the basement of his house...
...When “Clay All Night” producer and ceramicist Jessica S. Hoy ’07 embarked for rural West Kenya after graduation, she did not see clay on the horizon. On a fellowship for “purposeful travel,” Hoy went to work in a health clinic for the Luo people. Through a group of women she met there, Hoy discovered the art of traditional Luo pottery, in which forms come directly from their age-old uses. Speaking to a small but enthusiastic crowd last Wednesday at the Office for the Arts ceramics...
...images of conflict. “Because of the rate at which the media produces images, it’s amazing how unable we are to catch up with and challenge it. But those images compose our perception of the trauma of those conflicts.” Sculpting in clay with photographs of war in front of him, he tried to extract all the emotion from the images and manifest...
...Like Clay, “The Great Compromiser,” McCain will be remembered for his efforts to reach across party lines in the spirit of doing what is best for the nation, such as when he worked alongside Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-56 towards immigration reform and wrote the legislation that created the 9/11 Commission with then-Democrat Joe Lieberman...