Word: instead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like his arithmetic tables. This year he realized that the formula assumes the boat will carry a mainsail, allows the use of jibs of any size without penalty. By weighing anchor without a mainsail for the Vineyard race, Luders got a bonus of an extra four hours' handicap. Instead of using Storm's normal headsails, he hoisted a gigantic genoa jib that was fully 34 ft. at the foot, had an area of 716 sq. ft.-more than the regular mainsail and fore-triangle combined...
Reaching for a smaller tool, the sculptor pares the head into an elongated, rectangular appendage, no larger than his thumbnail, perhaps one-twentieth the size of the body instead of nature's less than one-seventh. He pushes his own head backward and thrusts the piece forward, studying it with a frown. Then he pokes two tiny indentations to make the eyes. One or more such small maquettes, produced between breakfast and a 1 o'clock lunch, may prove the seed for another of the large reclining women or mother figures to which the mind of Henry Moore...
...would carry them in his pockets, like peanuts, to the Paris cafes, and crush them with a squeeze. After World War II, Giacometti suddenly began producing tall, straw-thin stick men reminiscent of ancient Sardinian bronzes. His sculptures can be seen almost all the way around and dominate space instead of filling it. These new figures were universally acclaimed, but Giacometti went on destroying most of them. For the past year he has finished nothing...
...became a teacher, but World War I liberated him. He joined the 15th London Regiment, put in a long stretch of monotony in France that culminated in a surrealistic burst of four days' combat at the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917. He was gassed and invalided. Instead of returning to teaching at war's end. he took an ex-soldier's educational grant and enrolled in the School of Art at Leeds...
...cuckold-doodle-do. The husband explains by flashbacks how he secretly learned of the infidelity and how he reacted with something more than a Gallic shrug. His grandfather might have shot, whipped or choked the villain straightway. But a man of the husband's generation intends no violence. Instead, he wants to stretch the lovers on a psychological rack, then leave the actor there and reclaim his wife. As a starter, he hires a private detective to make keyhole photographs. For divorce proceedings? "Mais non. For the family album...