Word: clayey
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...phrases, hanging like abrupt cries in the air of history. All are tackled by the scholars ... At one end of the room, the fragments are prepared for mounting. Those too brittle to be uncurled are placed in a humidifier ... Then they are cleaned of sand, mold and marl (a clayey sediment) with fine camel's-hair brushes ... Some are so delicate that special brushes of only a few hairs must be used; and these fragments bear warnings?Don't Touch or, occasionally, DON'T BREATHE!" Read more at timearchive.com...
...expected, it took a while for Vinton to realize the inventive possibilities of his sticky form. The first half of the Festival, sadly omitting his Oscar-winning short Closed Mondays, gets bogged down in an interminable mini-documentary explaining his method and then some truly clayey early pieces, in which his artists inexplicably try to make the figures look and act just like real people, which is silly, because real people can't explode their heads and come up smiling and these figures can and it seems silly to waste the talent...
...room, the fragments are prepared for mounting. Those too brittle to be uncurled are placed in a humidifier until they are pliable enough to be pressed flat. Then they are cleaned of sand, mold and marl (a clayey sediment) with fine camel's-hair brushes, sometimes dipped in castor oil. Some are so delicate that special brushes of only a few hairs must be used; and these fragments bear warnings-Don't Touch or, occasionally, DON'T BREATHE...
...Henry Ford out along Joy Road to the small family cemetery beside a four-lane highway. Henry Ford had never ridden comfortably in any car but one of his own make; he wouldn't have liked it. They lowered the coffin into a hole in the wet, clayey mud. The rain came down in buckets while the police hustled 20,000 sightseers on their way and opened the highway again to traffic. The cars rushed past, filling the night with the smell of gasoline...
...make the reader see the huge undeveloped sprawliness of St. Louis as its grew back from its waterfront to there stolid respectability of kingshighway, the mediocrity of Page avenue, where Lilly move when the war and her father's money came, the verging of the flat city with the clayey surrounding. country. Similarly. The cinema screen of the book's pages, are thrown flashes of all the aired sections of New York Washington Square, Grimace Park. Grand Central Station while it still held the informality of partial construction. Amsterdam avenue, Spuyten Devil, Riverside Drive, all the the part...