Word: tabletop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dungaree-clad London housewife, Frink had her first exhibition while still in art school. Last week her tabletop bronzes were on view at Manhattan's Bertha Schaefer Gallery. At first glance, many looked like mud attempting to fly; they were that energetic and that saggy. The combination said something blue about man's estate, the approved tone of most contemporary sculpture. But Frink's ostensible purpose has nothing to do with moral messages or with ideals of any kind, not even plastic ones. "Somebody makes a metal armature for me," she explains, "and I start covering...
Born on a tabletop in Joe's Café, The dirtiest place in the U.S.A., Killed his paw with TNT . Killed his maw with...
...they have seen, birders work on the honor system. Two together must agree on identification. Small and manageable numbers of birds must be counted precisely; huge flocks can only be estimated. (Birders train themselves to do this with reasonable accuracy by throwing a handful of rice onto a dark tabletop, estimating the number of grains with one glance, then checking their estimate by careful count.) Artificial aids to attract birds and flush them from the underbrush are legitimate. Many birders make a succession of noises such as "Pshhh, pshhh, pshhh; psi, psi, psi; tsk, tsk, tsk." Birding virtuosos learn...
...killers, strung out along the field's narrow (10 yds.) "fair" lane, shouted at the disk's approach. Each wielded a hefty Schindel, a "tabletop" with a handle. As the Hornuss zoomed within range, the killers, one by one, sent their Schinden spinning up, sometimes as high as 40 ft., to intercept it. The last killer in line, stationed a full 300 yards from Striker Gruber, finally brought the disk down. Gruber's team got 20 points. If the Hornuss had fallen, unintercepted, in fair territory, heavy penalty points would have been scored against the killers...
...play an integral part in private gardens as well as parks, and in living rooms, theater lobbies, display windows, chapels and airport waiting rooms as well. To sugar its argument, the guild got eight designers and architects to contribute appropriate settings for a number of sculptures, priced some tabletop models...