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...plow in his blacksmith shop in Grand Detour, Ill., in 1837. He used a discarded saw blade. The genius was in the metal, sturdy and sharp enough to cut the strong, matted roots of the high-stemmed prairie grass and turn up the rich earth below for planting. The slick surface of the moldboard (the portion of the plow above the share, the cutting edge) kept the plow from gumming up, the curse of wooden moldboards. By 1839 Deere was making 10 plows a year, then 40, and by 1850 production had soared to 2,100 and the huge farm...
...most other categories, however, American shows look like slick assembly- line goods compared with the richness and handcrafted diversity of the best international fare. Made-for-TV movies from Europe, for example, are far more adventurous in style and subject matter than their true-crime-of-the-week U.S. counterparts. Actors are less glamorous, directors more imaginative, characters and themes more subtly explored...
When Tower Records and HMV opened giant outlets in Cambridge everyone worried that the grungy, groovy hole-in-the-wall record shops that give the Square a college town atmosphere would fold under pressure from the big, slick high-tech chains...
...show's wardrobe department, and some of the cool was donated by the adoring host? The image that came across on TV was that of a relaxed, self-deprecating candidate ("That's how I learned to inhale -- playing my saxophone") far different from the too-eager-to-please Slick Willie persona of the early primaries...
...that his marble carvings, finished to an extreme degree of perfection, run counter to the belief in the rugged, the unfinished and the visibly sincere that descends to us from Michelangelo and Rodin. Nor is it simply that one is anesthetized to him by his progeny -- the horde of slick, sentimental "classic" sculptors whose white memorials populate every 19th century graveyard in Europe. The basic reason is that Canova's assumptions about what sculpture ought to be and do, based on his total, adoring immersion in the ideal of the Antique, are lost...