Word: workbenches
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...decided that his paintings were "almost always good in proportion to the time I give them, provided I have a subject that is picturesque." As John Adams wrote of Copley's portraits, "You can scarcely help discoursing with them, asking questions and receiving answers." Paul Revere at His Workbench (see cut) is a case in point. Copley was in his 20s when he portrayed his friend Revere, the silversmith, and he had already reached the peak...
Right now, his latest machine is on workbench in the Psychology Department's machine shop in the basement of Memorial Hall. It is better described as a device than as a machine. It consists of a small wooden box with several small windows in the top, and a lever in front. Inside, there is maze of pulleys, levers, and chains and an aluminum disk about the size of a phonograph turn-table. It's really very simple, however...
...small. 12-by-15-ft. room is the private world of one of the world's most original sculptors: wiry, bushy-haired Alberto Giacometti. 53. In 28 years, a good deal of Giacometti has rubbed off onto the floors and walls of his bare, grey studio. The workbench is encrusted with old paint drippings and scabs of plaster. Cigarette butts cover the cement floor. The walls are acrawl with hasty sketches and doodles. Over all lies a thick layer of grey plaster dust...
Though they bear the mark of the poet's workbench, with words missing or a choice of words still undecided-as, for instance, between decay and worn away-most of the poems nonetheless lilt their way through the favorite Housman themes of love, war, death, courage, the transient beauty of life and the ironies of loving and leaving it. As ever, Housman is chiefly the laureate of youth. (Critic Cyril Connolly once pointed out that in 63 poems, Housman used the word "lad" 67 times.) If few of the lines from the Manuscript are memorable, they are all refreshingly...
Murphy Workshop. A fold-up workshop for do-it-yourselfers has been put on sale by Dor-Bak Corp., Chicago. Measuring only 18 by 40 by 7 in. when closed, the workshop includes a workbench that supports 300 Ibs., heavy-duty electrical outlets, a peg board for hanging up tools. Price...