Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easily enough to last through this century-and probably a lot longer-because so much lead is recycled. In addition, U.S. industry could substitute amply supplied materials for scarce ones (plastics for tin, for example) or increase the life of most of its finished metals by using much more scrap...
...visitor needed only to mention a scrap of news from Moscow or a question from Russian history, wrote his friend Columnist Joseph Alsop last week, "and instantly, as though by magic, he would be his old shrewd and endlessly knowledgeable self again...
WINDJAMMER PARADE edited by Hans Hansen. 112 pages. Viking. $16.50. There is only a scrap of text to explain that in the Olympic year of 1972 some 65 of the world's largest windjammers closed a series of races by parading into the harbor of Kiel, West Germany. The book ends with a catalogue of boats that took part-square-riggers with skyscrapers of sail, brigantines, Dutch gaff cutters, topsail schooners. In between there is nothing but glorious pictures of tall ships, webbed traceries of cordage, acre upon acre of canvas, panoramas showing the vast fleet dotting troubled waters...
...immigrants are contrasted with the haunting wraiths in the background, the remnants of the once-proud owners of the land. Troell's flair for faces shows poignantly in the aged, starving Indian women begging a scrap of meat from a frightened, guilty white woman. A narrator describes the oppression of the local Sioux tribes by the U.S. government as desperate Indians take to the warpath seeking food and redress, sweeping the settlers up in yet another external force they cannot comprehend but only react to. Troell does not look for easy morals--his Indians are brutal, gaunt and dirty beside...
...Royo's studio, a converted flour mill in Tarragona, outside Barcelona. There Royo would spread his newest tapestries on the floor. Miró studied each, with all its intricate twists, sworls, braids and tailings. Then he might splash a design across the rhythmic shapes, or snatch up some scrap of cloth to provide an accent or an assertion, using material from among the detritus lying around the studio. These were appliquéd into the tapestry itself...