Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greco, Vincent Van Gogh, John Marin, Wassily Kandinsky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Paul Cezanne, Paolo Veronese and Leonardo da Vinci. In addition, the color pages have provided the opportunity to show a wide range of other art forms: from modern church architecture to flower arrangements, from Indian sand painting to luminous sculpture, from 20th century fireworks to Ming ceramics...
...grandchild, "a puny boy weighing seven pounds." "Goddam it," he said, "the next generation of Fishers is goin' to be squirrels." His son, Thurber's grandfather, was hardly that. He showed his independence by having all his teeth capped with gold and, in his 60s, swallowing beach sand to "assist the integrity of the intestinal track...
...tombeau. France pays her foreign fighters little ($3.89 a month for a recruit, $14.20 for a veteran of five years), and sends them to fight her toughest fights. No U.S.O. benefits or Coca-Cola bottling plants follow the Legion into battle. Old punishments like le tombeau (burial in sand up to the neck without food or water) and la crapaudine (24 hours in the sun with arms and legs tied together behind the back*) are no longer in official use, but discipline is still stern and often meted to a whole company for one man's offense. The favors...
...Rodin," recalls the maitre, "was not particularly friendly. He asked me a few questions and then handed me a bust-by another sculptor." Rudier worked long hours forming the mold of sand, tapping, carving and measuring it to exact proportions, finally cast the sculpture in a single piece of bronze. "When I returned with the finished product, Rodin looked at it for a long time and caressed it with his fingers. All he said was 'excellent.'" But from that moment on, until the sculptor's death in 1917, Rudier was the only caster allowed to touch...
...more secluded, and as some experts contend, more picturesque atmosphere for an outing is Massachusetts' North Shore. A trip into the city, through the Sumner tunnel, and then out towards the Newburyport Turnpike will take the traveller to Swampscott, Ipswich, Glouscester. Rockport and points North. Besides the sand, there are some fair-to-middling restaurants along the way and a few picnic areas, but wandering Harvard men had better beware because much of the seashore in this area has been commandeered by private families who keep a sharp watch for strangers...