Word: glazed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anaximander made a meander of elements to a four-square jig of fire-water called "tab 's' to be inserted in slot 't'"--in short, a fence "apeiron" with seeds tied hatching to its string, knitting the cold wet hamburg of the world to clay and fleshing it with glaze, an onion ring sliced for a sky that curdled, by fire hurled...
...Adams had his shortcomings. His slapdash autobiography ends in 1780. He inexplicably stopped writing at certain key points in his career, including the years of his presidency (1797-1801). Unfortunately, the editors failed to provide any commentary bridging sections of the diary, faithfully left in reams of material that glaze the eye of the nonhistorian. To fill in the gaps and round out the man, readers will have to wait until the editors of The Adams Papers publish John Adams' witty, newsy letters as part of the 20 volumes or so that will be devoted to family correspondence...
...three sculptures had impressive credentials. Each came to the museum in fragments that looked as if they had been worn by the centuries. A noted ceramics expert, the late Charles Binns, analyzed the pieces, concluded that the glaze that covered them was ancient Greek black, the secret of which was lost during the Roman Empire and not rediscovered until 1942. The evidence was persuasive as far as the museum was concerned, and the three warriors were given a gallery almost entirely to themselves...
...confession of the forgery. With that in hand, Parsons sent off a letter to the Met in Manhattan. The Met was not too surprised: its own ceramics expert, Joseph V. Noble, had already completed a series of chemical tests on the statues. His major finding: the famous Greek-black glaze actually contained a modern coloring agent, manganese dioxide...
...subtraction of ten pounds (Uncle Sam shaved off his sideburns) seem to have effected precious little difference in the Tennessee tomcat. At 25 he still looks 17, still holds his li'l ole "gweetar" at crotch level and lets the spasms run through his legs while his eyes glaze and unintelligible phrases spurt from his doll-baby mouth. Between ballads he still looks like the hero of a girl's school Hamlet...