Word: clays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the successful city magazines have borrowed-some of them heavily-from the graphics, format and trendy chic of New York (circ. 364,000), the pacesetting weekly first published as an independent magazine by Clay Felker in 1967. (Felker had been its editor in an earlier and simpler incarnation, when it was a Sunday supplement of the now defunct New York Herald-Tribune.) Regular features akin to Felker's "The Underground Gourmet" (budget-minded restaurant reviews) and "The Passionate Shopper" are staple fare, and New York's penchant for parlor-game lists ("The Ten Worst Judges...
...edge pattern, made by painting a slurry of clay and steel filings along the blade just before its last firing and quenching, is even more pictorial. Its crystalline opacities resemble those of classical sumi-e ink painting, suggesting hills, river currents, islands or the wreathing of vapor. Dr. Compton likes to compare Kunimune's hamon to "low-lying mist on a swamp, with searchlights playing over it." These configurations are not seen as decoration, like inlay work or chasing on a Western sword...
...Clay Rooks...
...developer cities" just to the west of Fort Lauderdale have encountered the dark underside of extravagant growth. The recent recession slowed the boom, leaving the skeletons of half-completed communities and a number of bankrupt builders. Now, says Fort Lauderdale Mayor E. Clay Shaw, "we have gone to enforced land-use planning at the county level. We've put population caps on certain areas. We've stopped bargaining among landowners. There have been some building moratoriums because of overworked sewerage facilities...
...fifth of a mile around, absolutely level, and big enough to sustain three or four different ball games at once. Despite its lower % of males, the Quad placed fifth out of the eleven houses in the Strauss Cup race. With house-owned volleyball sets, 3 weight-room, four clay tennis courts soon to be enclosed in a dome, backboards, a basketball court across the street, and a planned building of squash courts, we get our exercise far from the exhaust fumes of Mt. Auburn St. and Storrow Drive...