Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find a nicer man," says one Boston lawyer. "But his sweeping decisions tend to be insensitive." Others regard his iron will with something approaching awe. In one unsolicited endorsement last summer, Red Sox Pitcher Bill Lee described Garrity as "the only man in this town with any guts...
...problems in working in the mammal department on the fifth floor of the Museum of Comparative Zoology is the whale supports, the great iron turnbuckles that disappear with Melvillean inscrutability into the ceiling and are anchored somewhere high up in the attic. Two floors below, the skeletons of the leviathans are stretched out for the length of the exhibit room in static mimicry of their aquatic postures. The problem with the whale supports, says M. Edith Rutzmoser, who works out of the mammal department as curatorial associate, is that they get in the way when you're trying to move...
...Iron's outside interests keep him somewhat separate from the rest of his class. He has calculated that he attends just over 70 per cent of his classes--average attendance at the Law School is closer to 95 per cent. "Grades? I don't want to get on the Law Review," he says. But he adds, wryly, "Of course, I may be frantic in January...
There's a lot more to Hines than the fact that he is very tall, hails from New York City, and can put a leather projectile through an iron hoop with greater consistency than most of his peers in Leverett House. But Dr. Naismith's game is not the only thing in Hines's life. Because Hines doesn't follow the script, his athletic career at Harvard has been tortured by false starts and stops...
...roof, a panoply of bridges, rigging and wharves unfolds. This is his sculptural landscape−as the marble quarries of Serravezza are Henry Moore's. The Manhattan docks have furnished both the material and the imagery for his work: the gray, salt-pickled balks of timber; their ponderous iron bolts, cleats and straps; the explicit logic of big practical structure. Pieces like Hankchampion (1960) are inseparable from that context. Its salvaged wooden beams, bolted together and strung with chain, are a homage to the plain speech of early industrial architecture. There is also a strong connection to abstract-expressionist...