Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visa registration office. Later, while the Siberians exchanged hugs and kisses with family members through the heavy metal grate covering an embassy basement window, a young agent in a black leather jacket perched on a nearby railing, taking pictures of them. Said a U.S. diplomat: "They have a hunting license to go anywhere in the system...
...Saturday, Jan. 22, the limousines of the 13 oil ministers pulled up in front of Geneva's 15-story Hotel Intercontinental. As is usual, security was strict. Everyone entering the hotel had to wear a badge and pass through metal detectors. In the lobby, guards herded tourists and reporters behind barriers so that the ministers could move freely, like royalty...
Long described the war's continuing devastation of Vietnam, noting that when he visited the country in 1980, he still saw more scrap metal than vegetation along the roads...
...nature, on hills and creeks." Thousands of youngsters, no doubt, could say the same; but art grows out of other art, and what opened the sluices and let Smith's childhood associations flow into a career as a sculptor was seeing photos, not the originals, of the metal sculpture of Picasso and his fellow Spaniard, González, in an art magazine published in the early '30s. Smith had been a painting student in New York City. Working iron, he saw, might have the directness of painting. It was an intrinsically modern material, which had, as he said...
...modernist movements, seizing and transforming something from each of them. From cubism and constructivism came the planar organization of form and the abstract language; from surrealism, the sense of encounter with a "personage," as basic to his work as it was to Miró's. Given enough found metal, he could launch into runs of astonishing inventiveness, like a jazz virtuoso improvising on a phrase. This happened most notably in 1962, when he was invited to make a sculpture for the Spoleto Festival in Italy. On going there he found, in the nearby town of Voltri, five deserted steel...