Word: grinder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foote deals almost too fairly with Grant as well, although the general in chiefs meat-grinder warfare down through the Wilderness and Spotsylvania to Richmond amounted to a kind of condemnation of the man, no matter what his ultimate success. Grant sometimes spent soldiers so profligately that at last even the seemingly limitless manpower of the North seemed about to run out. At Cold Harbor, Lee devised such an intricate system of crossfires for the ill-prepared Grant that as Foote says, "never before, in this or perhaps any other war, had so large a body of troops been exposed...
...good writer. If I knew that by grinding Mr. Eliot into a fine dry powder and sprinkling that powder over Mr. Conrad's grave Mr. Conrad would shortly appear, looking very annoyed at the forced return, and commence writing, I would leave for London early tomorrow with a sausage grinder. Ernest Hemingway The Transatlantic Review...
...Greenberg. About ten sculptures underwent change at Greenberg's whim, some irrevocably. Flat paint can be resprayed, but some of Smith's polychrome works were painted in a splashy, brushy manner-a handwriting that can no more be restored than the excited scribbles he made with a grinder on the skin of his stainless-steel pieces...
...David Smith, represented by ten sculptures across the lawn. But then Smith's work was always conceived in terms of landscape or, more exactly, the heroic domination of landscape by icon; it is essentially outdoor and declamatory sculpture. Thus the silver tracery left by Smith's disc grinder on the stainless steel only comes alive in sunlight; spotlights kill it. Smith's constructions of forged and welded iron, like Wagon II, 1964, also force themselves on the out-of-doors by their density as metaphor...
...center is a rectangular cistern, which, with the dropping from the grid of a canopy or crucifix, can be covered in a trice to become Juliet's bed or Friar Laurence's altar. A few chairs and round tables turn the building into a sidewalk cafe, with an organ-grinder on hand to increase authenticity...