Word: wiring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...From Wire Dispatches
...should "buy a tract of land somewhere in Amazon . . . and throw in Marines and Seabeas and Air Force . . . invite them all, the Chinks and the Aussies, the Frogs and the Gooks and the Wogs . . . We'll have war games with real bullets and real flame throwers, real hot-wire correspondents on the spot. TV with phone-in audience participation, discotheques, Playooy Clubs, pictures of corpses for pay TV . . . But even that wouldn't do the trick. Our collective cool refuses penetration...
...about his construction sculpture; no museum owned a single example of his work in this art form until last week, when Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art announced that Picasso has given it one of the great breakthrough pieces in the history of sculpture-his sheet-metal and wire Guitar. Until he made Guitar in 1911 or 1912, sculpture had been mainly a matter of modeling or carving materials. Picasso was the first to begin assembling them, and this has been a prime sculptural technique ever since. According to the museum's chief curator of the painting...
...From Wire Dispatches...
...From Wire Dispatches