Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large and strong, iron-muscled, youthfully indestructible, for I had already survived and made my peace with every bestiality and indignity that poverty exacts. I was the product of the gutter and the gang, the lousy, bedbug-ridden tenement, the burning streets and the empty lots. I had carried brass knucks and used them, and in my animal world, I was beaten and I beat others...
...though, to make rigid comparative judgments about the objects on display. The Corinthian helmets and hammered gold shields may intrigue some people more than reliefs of buxom goddesses, while others may be drawn to metal worked laurel wreaths used to honor the dead. And especially interesting is a silvered-iron mask of a man's face with rough cast-iron "hair" made in the first century A.D. More spontaneous in spirit is the bronze "Horseman" cavorting, only three inches high yet painstakingly, masterfully fashioned. Ostentation, heroism, eroticism and plain whimsy--all are here. Collections of such variety are rare indeed...
...full, often tumultuous work week managing one of the nation's greatest private treasuries. Operating out of a spartan office in Jacksonville, Fla., the 5-ft. 5-in. entrepreneur has long been an awesome political and financial power in the state. Lately, though, Ball's iron rule has been seriously challenged by some dissident trustees, including Alfred du Font's grandson, Alfred du Pont Dent. As a result, the crotchety octogenarian is now in the fight of his life, battling a series of legal moves to oust him and sell off part of the estate...
...Revolution, the only radical art of the 20th century that meshed with radical politics. Tallin's unbuilt tower, the monument to the Third International, was greeted as transcending more bourgeois spectacles like the Eiffel Tower. It was the incarnation of struggle: "For the first time," a critic exclaimed, "iron rebels and wants to acquire its own artistic form!" El Lissitzky's marvelous series of Proun paintings, with their intersecting planes and crystalline forms, were like Utopian landscapes, referring to Russia's industrial future and dismissing its agricultural present...
...himself. Andrew Sinclair, an ex-Cambridge don, has written probably the fairest account of London's life. British understatement proves to be just what the subject requires. But when it comes to London's books, Sinclair labors. Prophets are fashionable these days, so he recommends that The Iron Heel be reread as a prediction of fascism and argues that London's inside-dog stories anticipate the behavioral theories of Konrad Lorenz...