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...town square, men gather beneath plane trees to sip retsina, a resin-flavored wine. They see a photographer and nod knowingly to each other: "Spiro." At the corner of Aristotle and Socrates streets stands a house built some 200 years ago by an earlier Anagnostopoulos. Spiro's cousin, Andreas, a quiet, naturally dignified man, lives on the second floor with his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Spiro, Won't You Please Come Home? | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...Cover: Acrylic over polyester resin base on wood, by Californian Vincent Perez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: may 2, 1969 | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...more advanced were the later Quimbaya Indians of Colombia, who discovered how to make alloys of gold and copper and also mastered the sophisticated "lost-wax" technique of casting. First, the Indians made a model of the sculpture in beeswax or resin and covered it with a powdered charcoal and then a thick layer of clay. Next, they applied heat, melting the wax so that it ran out a channel in the hardened clay impression. They then used the impression as a breakable mold, pouring the molten gold in through the channel in the clay. It is the same method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antiquities: Buried Treasure | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...Maglie, who used to point his glove like a pistol at the batter's heart during his follow-through, has there been an angrier, more arrogant or more confident man on the mound. A chunky, 5-ft. 11-in. 190-pounder, McLain stands there stiff-backed, briefly fingering the resin bag before throwing it violently to the ground. Like a high-school wise guy, he tilts his cap so far down over his eyes that he has to cock his head back to see the catcher's signs. Then, with the barest hint of a nod, Denny is ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Tiger Untamed | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

Smithsonian Institution's auspices, the U.S. pavilion displayed ten artists in the American "figurative" tradition. The dreamlike canvases of Edwin Dickinson commanded respect. The satiric Chicago of Red Grooms was a hit, and the sallow, sexy, epoxy-resin girls of Frank Gallo drew same fascinated attention. But otherwise the reaction was: "The U.S. has so many marvelous painters and sculptors. Why did they send us this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Venice, After All | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

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