Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's first peacetime wage-price controls died last week, leaving disillusion and double-digit inflation in their wake. Almost immediately, prices began to scoot higher on a wide range of goods, including cars, light bulbs, liquid oxygen, some air-conditioning equipment and those basic materials, steel and copper...
...Continental Oil, Exxon and Kennecott Copper to report to their stockholders on their strip-mining activities...
...civil rights groups. A number of federal agencies are investigating possible job discrimination at some of the largest U.S. corporations. General Motors, General Electric, Ford and Sears already have been named as targets by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and other cases are expected in such basic industries as copper and aluminum...
This exhibit of Avery's work now at the Fogg Museum gathers together prints of all 60 of the images he produced between 1930 and 1955. Avery worked in the opposing techniques of woodcut and drypoint: in drypoint, the artist cuts into copper the line he wants to print, while in a woodcut he digs out what he doesn't. The results in each style are very different, but Avery has command of both techniques. He controls his line to model and shade, indicating the subtleties of mass and movement...
...lines wide and gently curving, like lapping waves, gradually becoming choppier as he moves out to sea. Then lines become crowded, quick slashes of his stylus. In the same way, in his three reclining nudes (1939, 1941 and 1948), the surety of his stroke as he cut into the copper plate forms a line that is not a boundary for the human form, but a result of the swellings of the women's breasts, hips and thighs. Line never holds in his form, whether it is Mark Rothko's profile or a rolling hillside. Always, his line is an extension...