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...Artist Benton is still cocky and rebellious, still thumbs down even the impressionists, and still puts in a ferocious day's work in his Kansas City (Mo.) studio in a converted stable. Because of an allergy, he has switched from egg yolk, once his favorite medium, to acrylic resin; because artificial light bothers his failing eyes, he paints only in daylight, often keeps his evenings illuminated with just a log fire...
Standing isolated in the bleak industrial flats of Long Island City, across Bowery Bay from La Guardia Airport, is the Modern Art Foundry. Inside, the walls glow as roaring furnaces melt ingots of bronze, and the air is scented with the churchlike smell of resin and wax dripping from the handmade kilns. There last week stood the man whom many U.S. and European critics rank as one of the top two or three sculptors in the world: stocky, blue-eyed Jacques Lipchitz...
...clear, sun-washed air of Greece, where the word democracy was first heard, has been ringing for two months with the campaign cries of politicians. In small cafeés through the countryside, customers have looked up from their timeless card games and eternal sipping of Turkish coffee and resin-flavored wine to make caustic or approving esthetic judgments on the rhetorical flourishes of candidates...
Skid proof Streets. Roads and driveways can be skidproofed with a liquid resin binder developed by Shell Chemical Corp. and Reliance Products Co. Relcote is applied like any enamel paint, also protects roadbed from freezing, thawing and salts. Cost: $2.50 to $8.00 per sq. yd., depending on road surfaces...
...sights and fired away at Tony's body. Slowly and gracelessly, Tony slid to the canvas. He was up at the count of eight. Basilio moved in to finish him, but Referee Mel Manning was faster. He brushed Basilio aside and took his time slowly wiping the resin from Tony's gloves. It was a wasted effort. Tony was still out when the champ chopped him down once more. This time, all Referee Manning could do was catch his man and ease him down. It had taken Carmen Basilio just two seconds longer to hang...