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...show displays both the medium's instruments--etching needle, drypoint needle, copper plate--and demonstrates the distinction between etching and other printmaking processes. In three sixteenth-century works by Albrecht Durer, the differences between etching, engraving and woodcut printmaking are evident. The woodcut is cruder, with broad areas of black and white, and the well-defined line necessarily supercedes tone and mood...
Carillo and his colleagues may be partners with the Colombians, but when it comes to smuggling, the two groups operate in distinctly different styles. While the Colombians have used elaborate devices such as custom-made yachts, high-tech communication decoders and even submarines, the Mexicans prefer a cruder methodology: stuffing the drugs into the trunks of cars, then relying on a combination of speed, scattershot runs and sheer bravado. Sometimes they blitz the border posts, sending eight or 10 vehicles through at a time, betting that U.S. Customs will search at most one vehicle in the convoy. A group...
...envisioned by the Republicans since the election, turning it back to the states is an evasion in a cruder sense as well. They propose bundling the money now being spent on various federal programs (like food stamps) into "block grants" for the states to spend as they please. But, in the process of bundling, the Republicans propose to slice up to 20% off the total, on the unproved assumption that the states can deliver equivalent services that much more efficiently...
...being an American artist. But his solution was cunning: he created an irritably stylish version of Ab-Ex gesture, in which the all-over squiggles of Pollock got absorbed into the loopier, body-based rhythms of '40s De Kooning. In effect, he turned Pollock's rococo lacework into its cruder cousin, graffiti. Did this imply a degree of loss? Certainly; but loss (and a barely suppressed anger at it) is one of the chief themes of Twombly's art. Its model is the palimpsest, the document in which a later text effaces the earlier...
While the U.S. or Russia could make a miniaturized bomb with as little as 6 lbs. of bomb-grade plutonium-239, a beginner could hope to produce only a much larger, cruder device from his 18 lbs. The fissionable metal for a bomb core has to be melted down and fashioned into a virtually perfect sphere about the size of a tennis ball -- called a pit -- a tricky process that takes a well- equipped nuclear laboratory. To make the bomb reach critical mass and set off a chain reaction -- nuclear fission -- you have to make the sphere implode...