Word: clays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aren't due to he whims of a sculptor, but to the techniques used in the foundry of the man who cast them. These works are not pieces of marble carefully carved by one person, they are bronze and plaster versions of a work originally done in wax or clay, and then used to make a mold. With the help of elaborate measuring devices, a work could be (legally or illegally) copied in marble or clay. Sometimes the original artist supervised the reproduction process. In other cases he did not participate at all or the works were cast after...
...nasty, vindictive and loud-and that was when he was sober.") Reeves typically refuses to run with the pack. While much of the press was still awed by George McGovern's primary victories early in 1972, Reeves was already debunking his fellow liberal. Says New York Editor Clay Felker: "Dick says things that may not go down well on the Georgetown circuit...
...canyon road or hurtling around the concave walls of an empty, round swimming pool, the new skateboards are as different from their 1960s predecessors as a ten-speed bike is from a velocipede. The original skateboards were made of wood and had nailed-on wheels of metal, rubber or clay. The new models, up to 30 in. long, are made of fiber glass, with clear amber polyurethane wheels, adapted from roller skates, that give the rider more stability and versatility. "Compared with the new skateboards, the old ones were like cars with wooden wheels," says Frank Naswor...
Thomas said the problem is caused by the growth of tree roots into the pipeline, which is "something that could happen in any of the Houses, because the sewer lines are made of brick and the original pipelines of clay...
...Wall also features the 1975 Oscar winner for best animation, Closed Mondays, filmed from clay figures. A drunk whose face twitches, yawns, and stretches--more movement in his eye sockets alone than in most Saturday morning cartoons--sidles into a one-woman art exhibit. He leans, peers, rocks back, shakes his head: almost every interaction with the objects is exhilirating. Street Musique, (1973), a Canadian film, is an exercise in almost pure animation and the best example of "minimal animation." The shapes expand, evolve, regress, and stay every bit as lovely as anything Miro did with line and color...