Word: slab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficulties of accepting crafts as pure art are exemplified by the exhibit. Although the pieces are beautiful and sensitively mounted on cork slabs, they are ultimately only exercises in one method of making pottery--the wheel method. The wheel method operates on much the same principle as a lathe. The medium (in this case clay) rotates so that all applied distortions become symmetrical and unified; abstraction becomes constricted. The other methods of pottery include slab construction, in which the potter joins planes of clay to make rectangular or free-form shapes, and coil construction, in which he carefully rolls cords...
...valley below, lay my destination. From the bus, Morochata, a town of 500 or so inhabitants, was dwarfed by the huge cliffs that vaulted high into the sky above it. The cluster of tin- and thatch-roofed adobe houses looked fragile at the foot of that implacable slab of rock, whose only distinction from the surrounding stark Andes was its lurid clay-red color, which seemed to brood over some dark mysterious secret life in the village below...
...Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem last week stirred a curious nostalgia in Saigon. About 3,000 Diem supporters marched to the city's Victorian cathedral to attend a memorial service, then moved on to a nearby cemetery where Diem lies buried under an inconspicuous concrete slab. Gongs tolled. Drums thumped. Buddhist monks intoned prayers. Two Catholic bands played the national anthem...
...cost-cutting techniques included substituting slab foundations for basements and carports for garages. A former accountant, he now concentrates on his firm's long-range plans while taking local governments to task over obsolete zoning laws and inadequate building ordinances. Complains Broad...
When a French soldier stationed in Egypt discovered a slab of rock over 150 years ago, he hardly suspected that his discovery would help break the mystery of ancient hieroglyphs. Although Harvard's esoteric acronyms such as WOE and GSTFU are not impossible to comprehend, a rundown of the University's secret code, a la the Rosetta Stone, can be as useful to newcomers as a map Cambridge...