Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rough and unfinished impression is conveyed by the metal sculpture. Much of the texture is like Gonzales' steel abstractions but such pieces as No. 5, "Torrero," have an even more extreme molten rock effect from the welding now seen in the work of Jacques Lipschitz. The strength of rough textures is contrasted by clean, stylized strips in the hands of the "Dancer...
...might naturally have been expected, the Leverett House Dramatic Society's initial program presented some rough edges. Of the three plays--Marriage Proposal, by Anton Chckhov, Strangest Kind of Romance, by Tennessec Williams, and Weatherwise, by Noel Coward --the last could be called thoroughly enjoyable. The others, irrespective of their merits as plays, suffered from various degrees of clumsiness in acting, direction, and production...
...hundred and fifty "horses," first banished from England to Belgium but now all hoof-printed for the U.S., ran into rough weather yesterday and couldn't land at East Boston for either the opening of suffolk Downs or the annual Paul Revere milk-wagon mush. All will be doped up for this afternoon's fast track, however, and ace CRIMSON handicapper Clocker Spanielle, who netted $5 on his doping for last year's opener, prophesies...
...skull, to which the years of adversity and self-discipline have given a sculptural distinction. It might be the head and face of a monk. He waves his visitor to a sofa, then takes a straight chair beside him. Barking his comments at the interpreter in his staccato, rough Mandarin, he fixes his dark eyes on his visitor, brightening with interest at a comment on Indo-China. turning grave as he states his unshakable determination to return to the mainland. Tea is served, and at exactly 6 o'clock an indescribable look comes over the President's face...
...personal planes for returning G.I.s and sportsmen, the plane makers had a few brief years of heady profits, then nose-dived when the war-inspired interest in private flying died down. By 1950 many of the hopeful new firms had gone broke, and the big three found the going rough. What gave them a lift was the new businessman-flyer, plus defense orders. With the increasing diversification of U.S. industry, thousands of businessmen found flying a necessity. But up to then, most of their planes were war-surplus bombers and transports that cost up to $100 an hour...