Word: porcelain
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...wing of a bat crazes the porcelain...
...pieces range in size from tiny pin boxes to giant platters, and in material from earthenware to porcelain. But it was as a maker of stoneware-that warm, quiet-colored material, lending itself to plain declarative shape-that Leach became best known. His lifelong fondness for it stems from the mingei (folk art) tradition of Japanese and Korean pottery. "We were artist potters," Leach says of his three-year partnership with Shoji Hamada, who helped him found the Leach pottery in St. Ives, "and we admired what is in folk art and nowhere else...
...flaws of the rest of his book. One major problem is the treatment of Kathleen, Stahr's lover. Pinter and Kazan apparently took their cues from a line in the novel in which Stahr refers to Kathleen as a "Beautiful Doll." Ingrid Boulting is precisely that--a porcelain figure, heavily made-up and beautiful to look at, but seemingly ready to break at a touch. There is no real sensuality in her, none of the flesh-and-blood passion Fitzgerald probably means to suggest when he has Kathleen describe herself as "sex-starved...
Coach Bill McCurdy was flu-ridden and did not make the trek to New Jersey. For McCurdy, and the ailing members of his squad who did not make the trip and had to content themselves with sprints for the porcelain bowl, it was a dismal end to a dismal season...
...floor of the Ford's private White House quarters last week with Canadian Photographer Yousuf Karsh. During a 3½ hr. portrait session, Karsh caught Betty in a reflective pose after he told her that his Ottawa home is called Little Wings. She promptly produced a small Boehm porcelain-bird figurine from among the household possessions. After his own portrait session, President Ford asked Karsh to get in touch the next time he visits Palm Springs, Calif., where the Fords have decided to spend their retirement. They sold their four-bedroom, colonial-style residence in Alexandria, Va., last week...