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Harvard's three-man units of foil and saber each romped over its adversaries 9-0. The epee squad, plagued by four 5-4 defeats, lost its event to the Woodsmen four bouts to nine...
...Heaven of the Nation's Millenium General Assembly. It's difficult to describe this work; some call it "primitive art," others just attribute it to sheer madness and leave it at that. The Throne is a series of chairs, tables, little altars and tablets, all elaborately decorated in tin foil. It was created by James Hampton, a black, Washington D.C. janitor who apparently saved all of the tin foil he found on the job to construct his tribute to the second coming of Christ. Hampton built this set-piece in a poorly lit, unheated garage in D.C. He took just...
There are lots of little things in this exhibit that inspire the viewer's curiousity about Hampton's influences. For instance, he has made several crowns and most have lightbulbs attached on top (covered with tin foil, of course). It seems obvious, and funny, that Hampton was inspired by cartoon depictions of "having an idea" (pop! the light bulb goes on over the head...
...Wuhan." Earlier this year the gang is said to have dispatched agitators to the industrial center of Wuhan in Hupei province for the purpose of forming a Chiang Ch'ing power clique. According to one broadcast, the conspirators spoke to each other only in Spanish in order to foil eavesdroppers...
...hard waxes generally come in small foil cans while the soft waxes, or "klister" in Swedish, come in tubes, like toothpaste. (The hardness of a wax is determined by the proportion of wax to resin, and the klister is almost entirely resin...