Word: melts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trees seemed to be in part made of flesh and blood. In his present figure paintings, the "integration of the human form and the nature form" is sought more directly. The figures are a part of the landscape; they emerge from it like plants, or they seem to melt into the atmosphere. The forms become entwined and forever locked together in a symbolic embrace...
...Landscape of plaster studded with bits of metal allowed to rust under the studio's leaky roof. Some sculptures, called Enigmas are convoluted, twisting shapes that Martin admits "are a question mark to me." Another series, Couples, is "the enigma of enigmas." Heads merge into double features, hips melt into each other. This, says Martin, "is the eternal problem of the couple. Everything is couple-the thing...
Many plants have closed up or moved away from depressed areas largely because area workers cling to high wage rates out of line with other regions. But as their savings melt away, workers have lowered their sights. The loss of the Ackermann plant so upset Wheeling workers that a jobless steelworker, Thomas Elliott, set up a "save-a-plant" movement, signed up more than 700 unemployed workers who are willing to take much lower wages...
...trouble is that Marie's husband is himself at odds with his background yet determined to force his wife to melt into it. The members of the clan jolly her with well-meant but offensive pleasantries ("Beware, madame! You're too slim; we like them well covered"); one old aunt shows her joy at their visit to her house by filling her mouth with orange water and squirting them with it. Marie resents the dirty restaurants, and he gets even by suggesting a local delicacy, grilled sheep's testicles. Before long, he manages to devise a hurt...
...Kong, only 15 air minutes away. On arrival each shipment of gold is meticulously weighed by Portuguese authorities determined to collect the import duty of 42? an ounce, the biggest source of Macao's revenue. After the weighing, the authorities discreetly withdraw. Then the syndicate's employees melt down the international gold bars (usually weighing around 27 lbs.) into the portable 9-oz. bars or thin gold sheets preferred by smugglers...