Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kunze believes that the statue was made largely of sheet-gold supported on a wooden framework. Phidias probably fashioned a model out of clay. From it he took clay negatives of the parts that were to be made of gold. When these were baked and reinforced with iron, goldsmiths could hammer their metal into them, reproducing faithfully the shape of the model. Along with the molds were found chisels and hammers of the type used by goldsmiths of the period...
...beleaguered man sat in Freedom Palace, small, chunky, tan-tinted and surrounded by a few intimate possessions-a wooden crucifix, a picture of the Virgin, a slide projector, a gaudy spittoon, books entitled Social Justice and Thought of Gandhi. Before him on a shabby desk lay an ultimatum, a blunt threat to tear down the government of South Viet Nam. An odd procession passed in and out of the palace doors for hours on end to deal with the crisis-three of the man's brothers, one in the cloth of a Roman Catholic bishop; his beautiful, politics-minded...
Timber! In Paris, retired Policeman Ernest Carrere, 52, suing for divorce, charged that his wife had exposed him to serious injury by sawing part way through his wooden...
...wooden dispatch box is about the size of a case of Scotch: two feet long, 18 inches wide, 12 inches high...
...riggers worked in a high wind to place the 13-ft.-high group on a temporary wooden base, it became clear that by social consciousness Epstein meant compassion. The central, seated figure, which Epstein calls "Fate itself," is a long-torsoed woman with high-cheeked, Slavic features, stretching forth her arms. On the right stands another female figure swathed in heavy, claylike drapery, receiving in her arms a cadaverous figure of a man, which, explains Epstein, "is man-child returning to its eternal mother, which is Mother Earth. It encompasses life and death." Still to be erected at week...