Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jackson's next stop is 15 miles and seemingly 15 light-years away. It is Del Rio Customs, a garage that equips cars with elaborate racing stripes and mag wheels. The place gives a visitor the feeling that two dozen Hell's Angels are about to wheel in looking for some feral fun. When anonymous death threats were made against Jackson before last year's World Series, he hired beefy Proprietor Tony Del Rio as his temporary bodyguard...
...exhibit's exclusion of constructed work returns the craft to its technical rather than artistic origins, limiting the show to the almost mechanical shapes generated by the wheel. It is only the glazes which elevate the work beyond mere utility, and they alone provide the diversity which makes the show enjoyable...
...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...
...prize of the day went to the Queen Mab, an imitation of a paddle-wheel river boat. Ward awarded four cases of beer to the craft, citing it as "the most extravagant, colossal and stupendous raft and the most likely to be hit by low flying aircraft...
Standing right next to me, a Boston police sergeant ordered two more men to go over and assist taking the student in the wheel chair away from the area. They did so. One picked up and fixed the collapsed chair. The other policemen picked up the student who was still screaming and placed him back in the wheel chair. They pushed it away over to the opposite side of Thayer. A moment later, the sergeant turned to me and said, "Well, that's over. But I'll bet we'll be accused tomorrow of clubbing a poor...