Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anthony Caro, at the MFA through May. Using scraps of steel--pieces of pipe, ends of sheet-metal, bits of gridding--Caro engenders his own brilliant constructions. His sculptures render natural forms in vividly painted metal: "Prairie," for example, folds and undulates; a cornfield--but in yellow steel. The patterns of "Orangerie" belie the stasis of the dusky orange metal, seeming to move like the shadows of leaves. Caro's efforts to capture the nature of water produce some of his most interesting work: "the Deluge" transfixes waves and spray, and "Cool Deck" slides and shimmers, a silvery stream. "Early...
Last week the participants peered down the long, tough road in labor-contract negotiations. Willie Usery, Secretary of Labor, who had just mediated the Teamster settlement, puffed on his big white meerschaum pipe and ticked some of them off: rubber workers, electrical-appliance workers, meat packers, construction workers. It would be a delicate and difficult time in some ways, he warned, but not impossible to weather safely if free bargaining were given every encouragement...
...painful adjustment to a postEmpire world of narrowing influence and opportunities abroad and unfulfilled expectations at home. As head of government for nearly eight of the past twelve years, Wilson may not have dominated the era, but he was certainly its dominant political figure and symbol, a round, pipe-puffing, wily-some would say shifty-Yorkshireman waging a struggle to hold party and country together...
...Arthur D. Ford, both of Somerville, were caught running from an entryway with stuffed canvas sacks and stereos in hand, Kahn said yesterday. They were charged with breaking and entering, larceny, and possession of stolen goods. The Harvard police traced the items found in the car to two previous "pipe-wrench" thefts...
...residents in a nearby entryway who were robbed last Friday afternoon by the "pipe-wrench" method, said yesterday that a neighbor had reported a suspicious person to the Harvard police at approximately 2:30 p.m. on Friday, but received no response...