Word: kiln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lows. A few dumb gags about ROTC thugs and big breasts do not detract from the film's scabrous assaults on undergraduate caste systems, sanctimonious preppies and liberal pieties. Besides, how can one fail to like a campus film that kills off one of the coeds in a kiln explosion...
...with a wit to match, is in the process of setting up a cabinet shop. He plans to beat the high cost of lumber and control the quality of his product by sawing and milling his own wood. An old chicken incubator stands by for ingenious use as his kiln...
This process begins with Frank's preferred material, clay. Her larger recumbent figures, like Lovers, 1974, are pieced together from a dozen separate elements, each made of a clay sheet fired in the kiln. The manipulated sheet, rather than the solid lump, is the basis of her formal syntax. The clay can be molded. It sags in pleats and thick drapes. It can be rapidly scratched, poked and cut. It retains an air of spontaneity, for Frank knows where to leave a shape before it loses its sketchlike character. Harder sculptural materials, like wood, metal or stone, connote resistance...
...ambition. Monsanto, after successfully experimenting with a small-scale advanced system that burned solid waste with very little oxygen to produce synthetic oil or gas, set up a recovery plant in Baltimore. Under the larger-scale operating conditions, snarls developed in the conveyor belt that fed trash into the kiln. That, among other technical problems, led Monsanto to give up, but the city of Baltimore continues to work on the plant, hoping to make it succeed. The cost of building garbage-processing plants is high too; Raytheon is spending $50 million to put up one in Monroe County...
...some 200 Leach pots, has been on view at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. It spans his whole working life from that first raku plate, through the wares he made as a student of the "Sixth Kenzan" (Miura Kenya, Japan's leading potter, who built a kiln for his disciple at Abiko outside Tokyo), to his return to England in 1920 and on through five productive decades in his workshop in the Cornish village of St. Ives...