Word: coppered
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...Alice in Wonderland) by an anonymous North Italian artist of the late 15th century. This is the kind of thing major museums ought to be about, when they are not distracted by show biz and self-puffery. One sees the print discovering its own nature and destiny as copper engraving changed from popular illustration to the status of an independent "fine art" medium...
...medium obviously did not rival painting or drawing in importance. Nevertheless, a wide range of artists (Fra Angelico, Jacopo de' Barbari, Francesco Rosselli) did multiply their images on copper, so that Italian prototypes and compositions filtered increasingly through to northern Europe; in the mid-17th century, Rembrandt was still extracting poses and situations from prints Mantegna and others had made 200 years before...
...pinch on U.S. supplies of grain and beef is only part of a worldwide scarcity of raw materials. For almost every important commodity - meat, wheat, rice, soybeans, wool, cocoa, copper, lead, rubber- world production is falling behind ravenous demand, and hectic bidding for supplies is rocketing prices. A Reuters index of commodity prices leaped 91% in the twelve months ended July...
...here, they are constantly under construction. Piles of stone chunks and contractors' wooden headquarters, with stovepipes, like gypsy wagons, are randomly scattered. Construction--and re-construction--are still as emblematic as the rearing bear of the city's seal, on policemen's, trainmen's, garbagemen's patches, on the copper address plates of lawyers and doctors, on countless cheap souvenirs...
...star of Texasgulf's metals division is the Kidd Creek Mine at Timmins, Ont., the world's richest source of zinc and silver as well as a major supplier of copper, lead and cadmium. In addition to its Canadian holdings, Texasgulf owns sulfur mines in Texas and Louisiana, a potash mine in Utah, three iron mines in Australia and woodlands in Pennsylvania. Despite a somewhat desultory performance in the stock market in recent years, Texasgulf has impressive profits. In this year's first half, it earned $22.9 million, almost double last year's rate, on sales...