Word: vase
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparent that the functionalist concerns of the Bauhaus are receding. Some emphasis has shifted to furniture as dream or fetish or ikon. Thus Gae Aulenti designs a variable bookcase/shelf/sleeping-platform unit that, glittering in vermilion fiber glass, resembles a Mayan sacrificial altar; while Sottsass's red ceramic vase has the archaic look of a ziggurat...
...personal honor even to the point of dying for it. And the place of art in daily life is much more important than it has ever been in the West. Anyone with any pretensions to culture must be able to appreciate a beautiful painting, an exquisite vase, even a well-turned ankle...
...very good novella is crated like a cracked vase in this volume, padded between two undistinguished lesser fictions that serve only to give the book that solid $6.95 heft. The unfortunate excelsior stories, All My Bones and The Call, are summer-weight Southern gothic. in which the author follows the convention of this school by writing about the rural poor as if they were all dimwitted. The title work, Goat Songs, is something else. A series of erotic recollections links a man to his boyhood. The episodes are brief: a flicker of memory, a few moments of musing. Perceptions...
...1950s, there was a surge into the market of "Hacilar" artifacts that some archaeologists attributed to illicit excavating in the area. But doubts about the authenticity of some of the "Hacilar" material began to crop up in 1965, when the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford bought a two-headed ceramic vase on the London antiquities market. The style was distinctively that of Hacilar; but at the same time, at least three similar vases were sold for as much as $7,200 to collections in Europe and America. This coincidence, combined with several odd physical features of the vases, aroused more suspicion...
Obliging Farmer. During the tests, the temperature of a small sample from a bowl or vase is raised to as high as 900°F., reversing the process and allowing the electrons to return to their lower energy level. As this happens, they emit photons of light, which are measured by a photomultiplier. Because pottery fired long ago contains more excited electrons, it will glow more intensely than items recently manufactured from clay with the same amount of radioactivity. Thus, generally, the greater the light, the greater...