Word: willow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shooting Particles. Though his constructions often resemble something in nature-a huge sun, a giant dandelion, a weeping willow-Bertoia does not work directly from nature. Usually he places a piece of paper over an inked surface and with a wire brush gently traces out a quick, freehand design. For more solid forms he may press the paper with his fingers, or use a piece of metal to print a sharp edge. When the design pleases him, he tries to reproduce it in metal, twisting and bending bunches of rods this way and that. As he wrestles with...
...apartments, a few lonely fishing boats, and an occasional tourist are all that remain today of what in better days was one of the world's greatest fishing wharves. Perhaps the only fish people could see at T Wharf in recent years were those they consumed off of the willow pattern china at the Blue Ship Tea Room, a popular seafood restaurant at the tip of the wharf...
...prepared for burial. In many societies the big toes of the corpse, or sometimes the ankles, are tied together, usually in order to keep the spirit of the dead from wandering around the house. Mongols anoint the forehead of the corpse with butter and then place a yellow willow leaf upon the same spot 72 times. The Buganda remove the intestines from the body, wash them in a kind of beer and save the beer, which is then imbibed by the dead man's widows. In most societies some sort of death dress is provided, but seldom, except...
...town where politicians bow like willow trees before racial and religious breezes, New York City's Police Commissioner Stephen Patrick Kennedy is an up-from-the-pavement cop (he likes the word) with a concrete sense of duty. A routine proposal that every Jewish police officer on the force ought to be excused from duty on the Jewish High Holy Days last week seemed to Commissioner Kennedy scarcely worth considering. He had already ordered every one of the 24,000 cops in the city, except those on vacation, to stand emergency duty during all the hubbub of international visitors...