Aviation experts professed near certainty that the slab of airplane wing came from Flight 370, which disappeared 16 months ago, and are hoping that lab tests will provide clues to what happened to the plane and the 239 people on board.
"The new owner received a demolition permit to demolish the slab in the bedroom wing of the house, but that seems to have meant all the walls and cabinets and everything in the bedroom wing," Christoph said.
To make her slab forms which sprout like eccentric wings from the sides of many of her vases, glued on with epoxy she throws platterlike expanses on a large wheel, then stretches and cuts them.
A roof slab extends from the taller east wing over the west wing, which supports a rooftop glass pavilion, terrace and garden.
To make her slab forms — which sprout like eccentric wings from the sides of many of her vases, glued on with epoxy — she throws platterlike expanses on a large wheel, then stretches and cuts them.
The book's keynotes are its brilliant visual similes, which cause the poems to lurch off in unexpected directions: pigs' heads on a butcher's slab are "pallid putti" with "ears like wings"; a weightlifter looks like a "human telephone"; beach-side palm trees are "nature's swizzle-sticks" that "stir the afternoon air / to a sky-blue cocktail / of ozone and dead fish".
A batch of crisped skate-wing ($14) slabs circled by deep-fried oysters and lemon butter made me wonder why this delicious dish isn't more common.
Scholars call him the Butterfly Man, because he joined wood slabs with pointy pegs that look like butterfly wings.
The 'Haarlem specimen', found in 1855 and described in 1975 is a part and a counter-part (two separate pieces of the same slab) which only preserves part of the right wing, part of the leg, some toes from both feet, a few vertebrae, belly ribs and fingers from the right hand.
Been on the road three days, and so far I've driven over 770 miles, eaten 12 chicken wings, two fried chicken breasts, a half slab of ribs, one corn dog, two frozen custards, three slices of deep dish pizza and three orders of french fries.
