Word: clays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since bursting on the scene at 16, Evert Lloyd, now 26, has won five U.S. Open championships, three Wimbledons and, by any measure, dominated the sport. On clay, her preferred surface, she has had winning streaks of 125 and 64 matches. At various times in her career, she has been adored as a teen-age wonder, reviled as an unbeatable superstar and written off as a burnt-out case. Through it all, she has borne herself with grace and played impeccably. For the few moments that she stood on Centre Court, the championship salver held high overhead, Wimbledon was able...
Rodin had very few inhibitions; flesh, both his own and others', was a source of inexhaustible fascination to him, and the erotic fury one often senses in his squeezing and manipulation of the clay was by no means a metaphor. One of his friends recorded a conversation with Rodin in his old age, as the sculptor talked about an antique copy of the Venus di Medici that stood in his studio: "He spoke in a low voice, with the ardor of a devotee, bending before the marble as if he loved it. 'It is truly flesh...
...Tonight was supposed to halt the News's circulation losses (450,000 since 1975) by adding "up-scale" readers and advertisers to the morning tabloid's traditional blue-collar audience. A flotilla of special sections and dozens of new feature writers and columnists were deployed under Clay Felker, 52, the founder of New York and New West. Said Robert M. Hunt, president and publisher of the News: "This is an extraordinary undertaking intended to make a great newspaper even greater...
Draped in a most unladylike damp cloth, the gray clay figure looked more like Aphrodite rising from the sea than the future Queen of England. But the royal figure of Lady Diana Spencer, 19, will be appropriately demure by the time it joins the waxed likenesses of Prince Charles, 32, her husband-to-be, at London's famed Madame Tussaud's. A plaster mold was made of Sculptor Muriel Pearson's feat of clay, from which a wax figure is being shaped; later it will be colored and dressed. The Di will be cast shortly before...
...austere silver temple that looks like the court of Krypton, Zeus (Laurence Olivier) plays with clay figurines, brings them to life, sends them through labyrinths of adventures, sentences them to spectacular deaths. Now he is pondering the fate of Perseus (Harry Hamlin), Zeus' son by one of his many extramarital manifestations. Shall Perseus realize his destiny as champion beastslayer and husband of fair Andromeda (Judi Bowker...