He is not trying to return to the necessities of cavemen — he wants to carve and fill a niche that is big enough to hold him, his needs, and his edifying pleasures — but no more.
At Jean's Silversmiths, a century-old shop in Midtown Manhattan specializing in antique silver, she dug through several boxes filled with carving sets, ultimately choosing two.
Carving out a niche and filling it, rather than competing head-to-head with Microsoft, allows such companies to offer more targeted and clearly superior products.
The women selected to lead their parties' campaigns this year "are filling roles neatly carved out for them in an establishment that continues to be male dominated," said Yogendra Yadav, a political analyst with the Center for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi.
With big shoes to fill, Gillibrand is busy carving out a legislative agenda that she hopes will address a mosaic of issues from education to energy to the economy.
The wall was formed by carving a trench in the mud and filling it with a pyramid-shaped dike of rocks that was topped with a wall.
It was easy to carve out seven days filled with unfettered views of the glaciers (below), humpback whales, harbor seals, puffins, otters and kittiwakes while at sea.
They were filled with carved figures — some free standing, some cut in high relief from living rock — that have long been considered among the most sublime images in Chinese art.
"Simbolo Masticado (Chewed Symbol)" from 2005 is a tire carved with patterns and filled with colorful gum, while "Al Otro Lado de al Velocidad (On the Other Side of Speed)" from 2008 turns the rough agrarian workhorse into an object of beauty — or something close to it.
Thanks to a niftily convincing US accent, Emily Blunt escaped the hamster wheel of wearing a corset in well-to-do period dramas early on in her career and has carved out a CV filled with a wide variety of intriguing roles.
