Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feet of Clay. In Albuquerque, police arrested the Better Business Bureau's manager Don Dreessen, charged him with extortion...
Right next door to Manhattan's well-heeled Whitney Museum (see above) is the Clay Club, a converted stable which is one of the nation's few sculpture galleries. The Club's annual group exhibition last week included two especially talented-and all but unknown-modern sculptors...
...best nude in the Clay Club show-a pink marble La Victoire-was done by 43-year-old Burr Miller, who was once intercollegiate wrestling champion at Yale. "You have to chisel down to the skin," explained ex-Wrestler Miller, cupping his square hands, "and not a fraction farther...
Palo & Piñata. This week, as always, the highlight of each posada (literally, an inn) was the breaking of the piñata, a big clay pot. The piñata, filled with presents and decorated with gay streamers, was hung from the ceiling. One by one guests were blindfolded, spun around, and allowed to crack at the pinata with a palo (stick). Usually they missed. Then the smallest child was allowed to split it open, whereupon everyone dived for the shower of candies, fruits and toys...
...relatives prepared for her needs in another world. Buried with her were seven frozen horses (important in nomad symbolism), a gold-trimmed dagger, wood and clay vessels for food & drink. A box of cheese was still fresh (one of the diggers' dogs ate a piece with enthusiasm...