Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, bumptious, brilliant Jacob Epstein unbared his new Lucifer (see cut) which looked something like a winged cigar-store Indian. It was less likely than his prodigiously progenitorial Adam to be exhibited by others for a cheap pornographic thrill (TIME, April 29, 1940). Lucifer had been modeled in clay, then cast in bronze, possessed the refined detail peculiar to modeled figures...
...carving direct in stone or wood, De Creeft quotes Michelangelo ("sculpture is done by a process of removal"), soft-pedaling the fact that most of Michelangelo's stone carvings were copied from studies which he modeled in wax, and that all of his bronzes were cast from modeled clay. De Creeft believes that a sculpture, like the chicken in the egg, is partially "preexistent" in the shape of the block, the grain, the texture. He thinks of himself as trying to "collaborate" with the stone to free the figure concealed inside...
...boulevards - although only holders of priority cards, such as expectant mothers and war invalids, may ride. The clothing supply is tight, particularly for men: next year there will be a new suit for every third Frenchman, an overcoat for every tenth. But soap is no longer sand-and-clay; it lathers...
Soft Life. In West Brighton, N.Y., Rita Clay became Mrs. Donald Muck...
Sundstrom is surrounded by a well chosen supporting cast which acts with unobtrusive competence rather than with individual histrionics. Perhaps most authoritative are the diametrically opposite forces of Clay Clement, instigator of the coup de main, and Lesley Woods, embittered widow, who tries to turn de Mauny (Sundstrom) from his plan...