Word: tins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the beginning of art history, the word sculpture has meant monoliths -continuous closed forms hewn from one block of marble or cast in one piece of bronze. Then the tin and cardboard constructions that Picasso made in 1912-14 provoked what has become a new orthodoxy: sculpture should be made of open and discontinuous forms, declaring themselves to be not one mass but a sum of parts...
...Last night on Hill 30 it rained rockets. The medics tried to move the wounded but for two hours no one dared move from the bunkers," the boy said nearly breathless as he laid down his dusty M-16 rifle under a bush, and grabbed a tin cup filled with water...
...boosting effort. Thieu has been telling newsmen that Saigon's troops "will feel 10 ft. tall" when it is all over; government radio stations broadcast newly minted tunes of glory (sample title: Tchepone Victory). But in a more accurate reflection of the popular mood, Saigon's daily Tin Sang last week replied to Nixon's recent remark about the U.S.'s "last war." It editorialized: "For the Vietnamese people this is the last war-to last until the death of the last Vietnamese...
...time Councillor Crane got up to give the main speech of the evening most of us had been eliminated on earlier rounds. I must confess to missing Crane's explanation of his tin can lid necklace but I felt I had an excuse. The 125th centennial dinner was my only chance to relive the myth of former CRIMSON city editors who used to write their council stories drunk after a night at Igo's. Next week it would be back to the issues...
...come to expect a climax in the things we view, and usually a happy one. We are indignant if Superman allows Lois Lane to be undone by a buzz-saw, or if the U.S. Calvary and Rin Tin Tin don't beat the shit out of the Indians. So one's sense of propriety was jarred this weekend when Cooney Weiland's illustrious hockey career ended not with Harvard's first NCAA championship, but with an unbelievable 6-5 loss to Minnesota, and then a 1-0 defeat the next afternoon. Where was God, or Cecil DeMille for that matter...