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Usually, though, he makes roughly hewn, abstract, semi-geometric sculptures out of clay...
...past 100 years, the temple's scourges have been more prosaic, though equally serious. From the 1890s to the 1930s, well-meaning architects sought to strengthen the battered Parthenon, which originally consisted of some 12,500 white marble stones hewn from Mount Pentelicus, ten miles to the north. The restorers added new iron clamps and rods to hold the marble stones in position. But in doing so, they ignored the wisdom of the Parthenon's original designers, the sculptor Phidias and Architects Ictinus and Callicrates. During the installation of the temple's original iron reinforcing rods...
...Britons who did not join in the unkind laughter was the Queen. She went out of her way to get to know Annenberg better, and was so impressed that in 1976 she made him an honorary knight. That odd affinity between the prim and discreet Queen and the rough-hewn millionaire partly explains why she accepted his invitation to join him for lunch last week at his desert estate near Palm Springs. Another probable reason was royal curiosity about the estate itself. "So many members of her family and friends have visited Sunnylands and told her so much about...
Another, more succinct contender: "He had hewn his house and land from twelve acres of Alaska wilderness, Biff Hanratty had, and he knew one thing-he would never share them with a woman...
LYING IN A STRANGE woman's bed and clutching at the loose ends of his emerging consciousness, Peter O'Toole looks gloriously dissipated. His long face, rough hewn by the careless chisel of time, barely resists the pull of gravity; even his mustache threatens to slide off his upper lip like a caterpillar from a branch...