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Iron was in his name, of course, and in his family history and his social environment. He was born in Decatur, Ind., in 1906, the descendant of a 19th century blacksmith, and his sculptural language flowed with perfect naturalness out of a childhood in the part-mechanized heart of America. "We used to play on trains and around factories," he recalled. "I played there just like I played in nature, on hills and creeks." Thousands of youngsters, no doubt, could say the same; but art grows out of other art, and what opened the sluices and let Smith...
...effigies of the figure. The same object, horizontal, would not be seen as a recumbent personage or sentinel. But in the end, the body messages of Smith's sculpture do not depend on whether the pieces have "heads" or "legs," as quite a few of them do. They flow from the internal relationships of the forms and from the metaphorical suggestions of tension, flexibility, alertness and so forth that their vivid and deliberate "drawing" evokes...
Steel, as a sculptural material, is imperfectly expressive. It has never been fully able to suggest the pathetic. But it is a marvelous substance for embodying optimistic energy, the direct flow of feeling into untormented substance. All of Smith's best sculpture is an object lesson in what scale means, in the relationship between the sculptured object and the body of the viewer. And it was in his ability to create large steel equivalents for the sensations of the body, unclouded by apparent doubt or fear, that his monumentality as a sculptor...
...healthy dose of pure, albeit naive, sports fanaticism, football magazines are the place to turn. One magazine waxes nostalgic: "Each September, as the talk and smell of football pervades the air, the hard-core football fan experiences a feeling of profound excitement as the adrenalin begins to flow in anticipation." And the makers of Stat-Key, when detailing the edge which their system provides, explain: "The player is professional, trained in his trade. Because he is a professional among professionals, there is less of an ability gap among pro players than among college players. For example, if Cornell were...
Carbon-dioxide injections are just one of a panoply of methods for pepping up senescent wells. All have arisen because conventional pumping can extract only about one-third of the contents of a field before the flow stops. When oil prices were still rising, experts predicted that enhancing techniques could more than double U.S. recoverable reserves, which now stand at about 30 billion bbl. But some current projections are for an increase in reserves of closer to 50%. That would still be enough to keep U.S. wells flowing into the middle of the 21st century...