Word: copperizing
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Hanoi's Americanologists seem to be equally misinformed about events in the U.S. Instructions issued to Communist cadres three months ago in Viet Nam, and since captured, advised that "many U.S. divisions are held up in the U.S.A. because of the Negro movement. There is a shortage of copper in the U.S.A., limiting the production of ammunition. No more taxes can belevied on the American people...
Historically afflicted by strikes, the U.S. copper industry is now going through one that is undoubtedly the most costly ever. For more than five months, 60,000 copper workers have been idled by a strike of 26 unions, led by the United Steelworkers. All of the industry's Big Four-Kenhecott, Anaconda, American Smelting & Refining and Phelps Dodge-are affected. The unions demand hourly wage increases totaling 990 by their calculation and industry-wide bargaining; the companies have offered about 500 and have insisted on maintaining the same plant-by-plant bargaining system that copper men have always used...
...greensward, bordered on the ridiculous. The masterpiece printed by his Kelmscott Press was a massive edition of Chaucer, illustrated by himself and the painter Burne-Jones. It cost ? 20- probably the equivalent of a half-year's wages of one of the men who toiled in the Devonshire copper mine from which Morris derived his fortune...
...either abstract or figurative, dislikes even having it pinned down as either "large" or "small." All that he is prepared to concede is that he spends at least eight hours a day pounding, twisting and welding together the sheets and found scraps of steel, aluminum, chrome, tin and copper that jam to overflowing the two back-to-back garages he uses as a studio on Chicago's North Cleveland Street...
...artist's development becomes predictable. He puts himself in a straitjacket." Certainly no one could accuse Hunt of being predictable, yet the 41 works at Milwaukee, created over a ten-year period, betray an artistic progression. Hunt's work has evolved from small, dark, intense, relatively small copper or steel constructions to larger, looser but still eerily vigorous ones in shiny aluminum. Hunt likes the polished effect that comes from disk-grinding the aluminum because "it changes its texture, and gives a volumetric quality...