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Black-Tent Kingdom. Winston Churchill, Britain's Colonial Secretary after World War I, created Jordan. He whacked an elbow-shaped hunk off the defunct Ottoman Empire and handed it to the Hashemite Emir Abdullah, "one Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem," as he later said, for the Emir's fighting services to Britain in the desert campaigns against the Turks. Abdullah ruled his arid waste spaces as a Bedouin black-tent state, with three courtiers alternating as Premier at the royal pleasure, and a British proconsul in the Lawrence-of-Arabia tradition commanding the British-equipped Arab Legion. Lieut. General...
...Discussing his helmeted king and his queen, a spatulate pair sitting in a sort of bleak majesty on a bench, he insists that the shapes of his figures are mostly determined by choice of material. Says he: "In bronze you start with space. In stone you start with a hunk of something, and work down ... In the King and Queen, I was trying to give the impression of a helmeted. almost masked head. The king's head contrasts with the body. The head is impressionistic, almost abstract. The body is naturalistic. Somehow I wanted to make it that...
Canada-born Lawrence Earl is a good storyteller (Yangtze Incident, TIME, July 23. 1951) with a weakness for pretty prose. To Earl, a woman's waist is a "sweet, inward curve," and a hunk of driftwood can be "ductile to the heaving flood." So when Earl ran into an African crocodile-hunter named Bryan Herbert Dempster, he noted that 28-year-old Hunter Dempster had a "hard challenge in his bright, sapphire eyes [that] had come of something more peremptory than time." But Author Earl picked up a good story...
...less formal busts, mostly in terra cotta; small plaques, mostly religious in subject; two lead statues, Standing Figure of a Boy and The Bird Boy, both pseudo-Grecian, idealistic pieces. Outshining them all was a bust of Augustus John, a shaggy, forceful bronze that seemed like a quick-frozen hunk of the old man. Said Time & Tide: "A searching interest in humanity . . ." Reported Fiore: "Augustus said I was a master. He may have been a little tipsy at the time, but I think he meant...
...work on our Stafe Capitol; but no son of the Commonwealth could ever accept that dried-up thing Baker conjured up as a codfish! Ernest Hamlin Baker should change his fish market . . . His caudal fin, dorsal fins, maxillary, eye, missing barbel, etc., have turned our Sacred Cod into a hunk of gurry...