Word: medium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accepting crafts as pure art are exemplified by the exhibit. Although the pieces are beautiful and sensitively mounted on cork slabs, they are ultimately only exercises in one method of making pottery--the wheel method. The wheel method operates on much the same principle as a lathe. The medium (in this case clay) rotates so that all applied distortions become symmetrical and unified; abstraction becomes constricted. The other methods of pottery include slab construction, in which the potter joins planes of clay to make rectangular or free-form shapes, and coil construction, in which he carefully rolls cords of clay...
Puffing through a park or panting along a highway, joggers are unquestionably helping their hearts. But are they shedding poundage as well? No, say three U.S. Air Force researchers in the A.M.A. Journal: exercise alone can't do it. A runner of medium weight who wishes to shed a pound of fat on a one-shot basis must expend 3,500 calories, which means that he must run for well over an hour...
...recent Supreme Court decisions toughened local prosecution of pornography, and the FBI now has 90 full-time agents monitoring interstate shipments of film. The real trouble, however, is neither cops nor courts but boredom-the intrinsic tedium in the medium since hard-core hit the screen. "A hard-core film today is as strictly constructed as a medieval morality play," Friedman complains. "There are just so many positions you can film...
...Though 5,500 Beetles had continued rolling off the assembly lines each day until last week's shutdown, Leiding has been gradually shifting some of Volkswagen's eggs out of the Beetle basket. Volkswagen's subsidiary, Audi NSU Auto Union AG, formed in 1969, now offers medium-priced and expensive (up to $5,360) sedans, most notably the Audi 80, called the Fox in the U.S. Sales of these cars are rising faster than anything else the company makes. Last August, Volkswagen introduced the Passat, a conventional-shaped, water-cooled sedan. Renamed the Dasher for the American...
...office. Since the 1965 invitation by City Council to build the library in Cambridge, many changes in the tenor of urban life have altered the city's priorities. These have been years of race problems, rent control, increased welfare demands, town-gown antagonism, urgent need for low-and medium-income housing, crime, dwindling tax rolls, congestion and pollution...