Word: glazes
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...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...
...obscured by the teeming, noisy crowd that moils about the inn, oblivious of the vertiginous angels or of the event they herald. And yet the actions of the ingeniously lifelike, exquisitely crafted figures-whether they eat or drink or play music or sell vegetables-is suffused with a glaze of color and a glow of pleasure that speak of Christmas...
...smiling through our tears, or vice versa, for in the Nov. 24 cinema review of I Want to Live, you say: "To judge from the . . . dragsville dialogue that Krylon-sprays the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems ... to provide the morbid market with a sure-enough gasser." We are pleased indeed that "Krylon spray" is so well known that its name is used to describe a spraying process. But then we read on to a "cheap glaze," and we become unpleased in a hurry! Krylon...