Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Specimens & Offerings. In San Francisco, Robert Arneson, 37, started out making pornographic telephones incorporating both male and female genitalia and typewriters with keyboards of secretaries' red-nailed fingers. He has since graduated to relatively clean flowerpots and realistic, 8-ft.-long clay models of his ranch house at 1303 Alice Street. Australian-born Margaret Dodd has created a rococo ceramic line of miniature cars, ranging from a Volkswagen microbus to a 1937 La Salle. David Gilhooly, 25, molds dyspeptic hippos, crocodiles and warthogs that possess much of the pudgy charm of their 6-ft. 5-in. 250-lb. creator...
...feats of California's kooky clay molders are even beginning to be idolized abroad. Los Angeles' Kenneth Price, 33, last month displayed six tiny, ovoid forms at London's Kasmin gallery that won raves even from critics who did not know quite what to call them. "It seems impossible to describe them without vulgarizing them," said the Manchester Guardian. "They could be puddings, breasts, biological specimens-but they could also be offerings to some ultrasophisticated deity." Trying to read the riddle of his abstract, Shmoo-shaped objects is really a waste of time and effort, Price says...
...speech sponsored by the M.I.T. student body, Ali-who used to be known as Cassius Clay-pointed out that the American black man feels he has no stake in America as it exists today. "Cubans come from Cuba; Chinese from China; and Israelis come from Israel. But what about the 'Negro?'" he asked. "Most Black people just haven't been taught to appreciate themselves...
...paper, its first issue contains 136 pages, with 64 pages of advertising, including the much-prized Fifth Avenue retailers. After an inventive promotion campaign offering winners such awards as a dinner with Mayor Lindsay or a personal bench in Central Park, an encouraging 60,000 people have subscribed. Editor Clay Felker hopes that newsstand sales will boost circulation to more than...
Thus when a piece of clay is fired, its radioactivity count is reduced to zero. By reheating it and measuring the radiation given off, scientists can determine the length of time since the first firing...