Word: slab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...works. He made his way via a scholarship and gumption to New York (where he made friends with Larry Rivers and Willem de Kooning) and Paris (where he met Riopelle and worked with Giacometti). Manhattan's prestigious French & Co. gallery gave him a show last month, where his slab-sided totems sold briskly for upwards of $3,500 apiece. As for being a black artist, he snaps: "Such questions are frivolous. They have nothing to do with the consciousness of people who attempt to make...
...hotels in the French village of Lanslevillard on the French-Italian border, killing eight and injuring ten. That slide occurred just 30 miles from Val d'Isère, the home town of Skier Jean-Claude Killy, where 42 people were killed last month when a massive slab of snow thundered into a youth hostel. Still another series of avalanches last week caused nine deaths in the Austrian Tyrol, and three more died in Italy's Apennine Range about 100 miles southeast of Rome...
...even more destructive phenomenon is the giant slab avalanche, or Schneebrett (snow board), in which a huge mass of snow may come sliding down, as at Reckingen in Switzerland last week. Highly unpredictable, slab avalanches occur when one cohesive layer of snow breaks free of the ground or of other snow layers. They can be caused by rising temperatures that send lubricating water between layers of snow, letting the white blanket slip like a quilt from the bed of a tossing sleeper. Exerting forces as great as 100 tons per square yard, such avalanches have been known to upend steel...
...February's The Sciences, magazine of the respected New York Academy of Sciences, proposes that we are what we eat: "Thus when a person exclaims, 'Boy, do I feel like a steak today!' he may mean it quite literally. He may feel exactly like a large slab of meat: soft, raw, heavy." That digested, the article proceeds to other insights into "the relationship between eating habits and personality traits...
...noon on the frosty morning of Dec. 21, a group of 20 men and women gathered in Red Square to protest in case any pro-Stalin demonstration was held at the dictator's grave, which is now marked only by a simple marble slab. There was no demonstration, but Stalinism was commemorated in another fashion. One of the leading associates of the dissenting group. Economist Viktor Krasin, was arrested the night before as a "parasite" and sentenced to five years of exile without a formal trial. Afterward, one of the dissidents noted: "Today it is different from Stalin...