Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gradually, his statues become more nonobjective, jumbled, full of more suggestive, less descriptive shapes. Poetry, perhaps, but energetic poetry. "My things have action," he says proudly today. "They're moving, quivering." To get this effect, he and his assistant, Larry McCabe, build his pieces on a frame of chicken wire, wood and metal, cover this with burlap drapery and swathe the whole in rough plaster. As a rule, the work is cast in bronze and finished in patinas of brown, green or gold only when a customer looms on the horizon, for casting costs...
...first egg-shaped project was for a zoo snake house, which, though never built, won him top architectural grades. In 1960, he actually built his first egg house for his parents. "Father thought the inside might be too small," he recalls, "so we simply squashed the iron mesh frame down...
Pouring the concrete on the mesh frame was so simple and easy that Häusermann needed the help of only two people to finish the house. The top shell is set on the bottom half on ball sockets, and the whole egg is girded round with a reinforced encircling belt. Leakage was a problem until he discovered a putty-like weatherproof paint which formed the perfect seal...
...houses' fight for breakfast subsidies are indications that at least a few Cliffies want an option to the restrictive dormitory living Mrs. Bunting would like to see effected throughout Radcliffe. Girls like the strikers, who are clearly a minority, are afraid that the intimate atmosphere of the small wooden frame off-campus houses now run by the college will be sacrificed when, by 1970, those houses will be sold and every girl required to live either in a dormitory or a non-college apartment. Yet Mrs. Bunting has continued to see these protests as the work of a tiny group...
...bill would bar the President frame setting up a draft lottery -- which could be rough to set unless he goes to Congress for separate authorizing legislation. The blow to the lottery set off Senate opposition to the bill led by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. (D-Mass...