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Italy, then found new techniques of her own. Besides the traditional Italian mosaic glass, she uses lava rock, iridescent furnace slag, crystal, quartz, mica and pyrites to produce extraordinarily various effects. Her mosaic above shows the moment when Christ met his mother on the Way of the Cross. As Artist Jenkins puts it, the "Cross becomes a sword of Truth between them. In the look between them, Mary realizes that He must go before...
...Message of the Lord's Prayer, The Invisible Encounter). Tractors of any type fascinate him and he currently has three ("they are like pets"). But one hobby takes him far from home. He is wild about volcanoes and will fly thousands of miles to watch one fume and throw lava into the air. When Mexico's famed Paricutin was erupting, Sikorsky traveled twice to the craterside to admire the effect...
...years P. & G. products had gone their separate ways, taking care not to step on one another's toes. But in the late '20s, the company had brought out Ivory Flakes, started production of granulated soap, bought up Oxydol, Lava, Duz. McElroy had a new idea for selling them: Why not have a free-for-all, with no holds barred? "At first," says he, "some of the more conservative members of the company cringed at the idea of having a punch taken at ourselves by ourselves." But eventually McElroy won his point, persuaded his elders that...
...Jersey home. Later, when Ava caught Frankie's act at a Jersey nightclub, the New York Journal-American was pleased to report: "As their glances locked, thunder boomed and lightning flashed . . . The Voice unleashed a torrent of sound at the sultry Ava. Emotion poured from him like molten lava...
...First Magistrate who has the people's support because he is keeping his promise to regenerate Mexico and make an end of the filthy sewer of mud that has smothered the national conscience under a certain prosperity these past six years, and has transformed a pedregal [old lava field] into a spectacular oasis for the profit of investors...