Word: clays
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Grant's Tomb, as the euphoric scientists subsequently named the 1,500-year-old find, is the first unspoiled Mayan burial chamber to be unearthed in two decades.*The discovery contained 15 clay pots, well-preserved wall paintings and a skeleton of a male believed to be in his 30s. Researchers, who announced the find last week, expect the contents to shed fresh light on a shadowy period of the mysterious Mexican and Central American civilization that flourished in the jungle from about...
...just above floor level, and I kept having this nightmare of waking up with a mouse nibbling on my fingers. That's how I got the idea for Gremlins. "His imagination stoked by a young lifetime of reading Marvel Comic books, watching old Universal horror movies and collecting clay models of monsters, Columbus set to exorcising his tiny demons in a screenplay. By the end of that year, his script had found its way to the desk of Steven Spielberg...
...from being a lump of clay or a blank slate. Brazelton conceives of a newborn with a distinct personality who has an impact on the parent-child relationship in his own right. This conception relieves some of the anxiety of parents who feel they alone are responsible for their child's character, and who cannot understand how anything could go wrong when they are doing everything right...
...time is the late 1960s and the setting an imaginary but vividly realized village on Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. Experiencing "blossoming self-hood," three women divorce their husbands, tug their children into the vortex of downward economic mobility and take up careers. Alexandra Spofford makes clay figurines, Jane Smart plays the cello, and Sukie Rougemont writes a gossip column for the local paper. These friends meet almost every Thursday, as a coven of genuine, practicing witches: "In the right mood and into their third drinks they could erect a cone of power above them like a tent...
...April 20, 1884, French wrote to his brother that the clay model for the statue was finished, although he said. "I am sometimes scared by the importance of this work. It is a subject that one might not have in a life-time and a failure would be inexcusable. He made the legs thin, since Harvard is known to have died of tuberculosis...