In winter, the studio smelled of burning coal—if one could afford it—and the city’s outdoor scents filtered in, as Mondrian described in 1920 in his ‘Groote Boulevards’ (Grand Boulevards): The boulevard is more thought-concentrated. I see the colors and shapes. I hear the sounds. I...
I was seeing pink rats and cats and animals smoking cigarettes. I was in the land of make-believe." ·James Tillis: "The baddest motherf*cker I fought was Earnie Shavers. That motherf*cker can make July into June and made me jump over the motherf*ckin' moon. That motherf*cker ...
Patrick Nagel's bright and promising career ended with his death in February 1984, at the age of thirty-eight I first became aware of Patrick Nagel's work in 1979. A friend gave me a poster she had commissioned Nagel to design for her gallery in New York. I was so taken with his c...
The passenger load of 36 Thanksgiving travelers was unusually light for a pre-holiday afternoon. With the declaration of open seating, Cooper settled himself into seat 18E in the very last row and then purchased with cash a bourbon and soda while chain-smoking Raleigh filtered cigarettes. Not ...
We waited out in the yard smoking cigarettes and enjoying the mild night. we waited for quite a while for Chris Hart and The Talking Heads’ “percussionist”. They didn’t show. Joe Sloan started to get really impatient and agitated. Finally someone figured out where this “percussion” ...
Another possible explanation for the increase in women's smoking over the 20th century is the development of filtered cigarettes. It was not until the 1950s when filters were added to widely marketed cigarettes; by the 1960s, filtered cigarettes dominated the market with the perception that they...
filtered through the producer’s discernment. Soon Luciano Buzzi mastered the craft, the first thing being the accounting, fiscal and creative aspects, then those concerning production. His training as an architect was fundamental for the last two aspects, but above all his idea of design as a ...
In the 1950s cigarette manufacturer Phillip Morris was having trouble selling its new filter-tipped Marlboros to an American public that had grown accustomed, during and after World War II, to smoking Lucky Strikes. Filtered cigarettes were viewed as unmasculine, and Marlboro could never claim mor...
The only difference between dry process and the wet process is that in the later on the crushed raw material is ground with water to form the slurry. This slurry is then filtered and pumped to the kiln and the rest of the process is exactly the same as that of the dry process. ...
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