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U.S. Sculptor-Welder Richard Lippold's Variation Within a Sphere, No. 10; The Sun. For the Met, which specially commissioned The Sun, Lippold outdid himself, labored three years putting together, with 14,000 hand-welded joints, almost two miles of 22-carat gold-filled wire. Hung by stainless steel...
How It Was. The British Navy is not the U.S. Navy. But many an old salt, now grown stolid in civilian grey flannel, who never did recognize himself in the labored breathing, self-conscious obscenities, and raw emotionalism detailed in most war books, will relish in Voyage's sharp...
His portrait commissions kept dwindling as he labored for months over each painting. His heavy brushstroke and thick overpainting, plus his untidy habit of cleaning brushes on his own clothing, struck his townsmen as uncouth. At 52, Rembrandt was forced to put his house and goods up for auction.
The Scanner represented a major breakthrough for Springdale and Eastman Kodak engineers who labored jointly on the project for ten years. An electronic "computer," it automatically transmutes color transparencies (Kodachrome, Ektachrome, etc.) into four separate negatives (one for each color) from which engravings or lithographic plates are made for four...
At the root of the matter is the fact that the people who worked the play up are all pretty talented. Anouilh created a fast-moving and well-confused story, making even his stock characters interesting--the butler wonderfully antique, the rich Messerschmann intriguingly reduced to eating nothing but noodles...