Word: grinder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed up to date in Kansas City. They manage to offer a technique of slaughter there that is novel even for this age of mayhem. The boys at the meat-packing plant resent the intrusion of the boss's agent from Chicago, so they send him through the grinder, pack him up and ship him back home as a string of wieners...
...last charter members of the New York School of the 1940s to remain alive and painting. Pollock, Gorky, Rothko, Kline, David Smith, Hofmann, Newman and Reinhardt are all dead, and their work has been so long discussed, labeled, ticketed and run through the meat grinder of mass art education that it has already assumed the air of an august period style-the last "heroic" American art. The absurd consequence has been that the group's surviving members,*of whom Motherwell is the youngest, have come to be mistakenly regarded as anachronisms whose work occupies a historical pigeonhole...
...placed here early Sunday morning. The charges against me are completely untrue. I'm neither surprised nor discouraged. I welcome their attempts to intimidate and harass me--it can't be done. God how these people hate me: I went before the discipline board (the human meat grinder) and requested my rights as a citizen of the U.S.. I requested very basic rights such as: a copy of the charges--No! The right to be represented by my attorney--No! A postponement of the hearing until I could at least discuss the charges with my attorney--No! Could...
...squez was living in Rome in 1649, he was summoned to paint the portrait of Pope Innocent X. The artist was out of practice; he had done no heads for some years. So, to get his hand in, Velásquez decided to make a portrait of his color grinder and studio hand, a husky mulatto slave named Juan de Pareja. Roman cognoscenti greeted it, according to one of Velásquez's contemporaries, "with admiration and astonishment," and from then on this aloof, brooding presence on canvas with the liquid black eyes remained one of the most admired...
...rules specify that most items in a boat's equipage must be produced in the challenging country. Thus the extruded titanium masts and polyester sails that are standard on U.S. boats were ruled out because France does not produce such things. As for the mammoth "coffee grinder" winches vital for racing twelves, no one had seen anything like them in France. Bich had to design and handcraft his from scratch...