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During composition, the fragments of glass are held together by a transparent glue. When the panel is finished, it gets a coat of liquid, transparent enamel, and is baked and hardened in an oven. With sunlight or artificial light behind it, the panel is incandescent. The process, first developed by Jean Crotti. a Parisian. 30 years ago, was perfected six years ago by Roland Malherbe, another Parisian, and was launched by his father, Roger, on a major scale this month...
...side walls, hard maple for back, neck and scroll. It is seasoned for 25 to 300 years. Testing for quality, the fathers twisted and tapped the wood as they worked it; their sons now listen with electronic ears and compute its acoustical properties. The instrument is put together with glue-also mixed for its resonant qualities-and at that point it is as mechanically perfect as it will ever be. But it will only last a few years unless protected by varnish-and the varnish, despite its unique softness and nonpenetrating qualities, destroys some resonance. Almost all liutai have secret...
Stiff Penalty. Such rousing football is typical of teams coached by Paul ("Bear") Bryant. (He played that way himself in the early '30s when he was the "wrong end" on a fine Alabama team that had its headlines hogged by a glue-fingered pass-grabber named Don Hutson.) Even on Monday afternoons, when other squads are still resting from their weekend's labors, the Aggies butt heads on their Brazos River practice fields...
...first hint that he had found something important was the presence of a few spots of wax where the 13th century canvas had deteriorated. To him the spots spelled encaustic, a method of painting with pigments mixed in hot wax, which was common among the ancients. Cellini dissolved the glue between the canvas and the panel on which it was mounted. Slowly, with utmost caution, he peeled back the canvas, preserving it in the process. On the panel underneath was an encaustic painting which churchmen of the Middle Ages had apparently thought too old-fashioned to keep. The ancient Madonna...
...English translations fail to capture the romantic tone of the speeches, which are in clear alignment with the treatment of the film as a whole, and the pace of the action-although intended-eventually gives the impression that the characters are wading about in a ubiquitous pool of glue. Hardened moviegoers will not find the latter objectionable. However, the even the more casual critic of foreign films will be able to overbook it in the face of a generally charming whole...