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...Italian painter and sculptor. Rambaldi first came to the U.S. in 1975 as a consultant on King Kong, then in 1978 set up a small shop in Los Angeles. He explained the construction of E.T. to TIME'S Joseph Pilcher, beginning with sketches and a series of clay models for screen testing for Spielberg before building the creature. Finally, Rambaldi made an aluminum and steel skeleton and then laboriously built up a musculature of fiberglass, polyurethane and foam rubber, layer upon layer. Each layer represents a muscle responsible for a body movement or facial expression, and each is connected...
...finals, which were played on clay. Harvard netman Rob Loud defeated freshman Ken Klemteld who made his first varsity appearance last weekend...
...Catholic Church, or the U.S. Government." Gavin arrived here in the late 1960s as a doctoral candidate in Syrio-Palestinian archaeology and took an immediate interest in the large and dusty collection of artifacts he found locked away in the basement at 6 Divinity Ave. That jumble of clay figurines and broken pottery on plywood shelves was the Harvard Semitic Museum: nearly 10,000 objects tucked into 3467 square feet of space. Trying to locate anything in that congested basement was like setting out on an archaelogical...
...survive the loss of his case. Whether he can survive the loss of his farm, which has been attached by the IRS, is another matter. A glance around his spartan home, enlivened with a touch of color from the hand-painted clay dishes displayed on a huge oaken chest, is enough to bring a catch into his voice. A look out over his 25 wooded acres, glistening with the remnants of spring rains, is enough to cause a shadow to slip across his face. His emotions are understandable. To men like Lee, their land is their life. To lose...
...attested by his straight set, 45-minute routing by Yannick Noah last week on his favorite surface, clay. Borg's return to top-flight tennis will require both time and match play against his real competitors (Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe, and Jimmy connors), and not against satellite stars whom he would meet in qualifying rounds...