Word: artists
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...family in Miami. There he became the top sparring partner of Jack Britton, who was working to regain the world welterweight championship. Fighting at 148 lbs., Sirica won a ten-round semifinal match in Miami, leading a local newspaper to head line him as a "Great Little Mitt Artist." Sirica fought a few other local "smoker" matches but quit boxing after his mother "raised all kinds of hell with me." She thought that he ought to be using his law degree...
FANTASTIC PLANET is a splashy French animated science-fiction story. The animation is slightly halting, the style derived a little from the late Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher (TIME, April 11, 1972) and owing quite a lot to Edward Gorey. The script is too much in the debt of a lot of standard sci-fi ideas, most prominently the notion that there is a distant planet where humans are kept as pets or treated as wild animals by the native humanoid types. Fantastic Planet is about how the humans win their independence and all creatures come to live in harmony...
...customers returning to a North Side Chicago shoe-repair shop for new heels or a shine are confronted by a discreetly blackened window and an avocado green door-firmly latched. The new tenant, Artist Ron Rolfe, is not interested in their patronage. All he wants is the privacy of home in his converted storefront...
...York City's Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine was honoring a prodigal son: Episcopalian-born Tennessee Williams, 59. The first recipient of the cathedral's centennial medal acclaiming "the Artist as Prophet," Williams was lauded as "the foremost playwright of our age." But about returning to the fold, a whimsical Williams was equivocal. Born in the shadow of a grandfather who, at the age of 97, was ordained a "High Episcopalian" minister, Williams had allowed himself to be converted to Roman Catholicism during the '60s. "What does it matter, anyhow?" he asked, adding that...
...only to sight a Boy Scout to reach for his chalks-one reason why Artist Norman Rockwell was voted one of America's ten outstanding fathers in 1943. But his youngest son Peter, now 37 and a sculptor living in Rome, remembers Dad differently. "Sometimes it was very frustrating to be a subject and to be seen through his eyes and not in the way I thought I was," he explains. Now Peter has countered with a sculpture of Rockwell pere that would never make the cover of the Saturday Evening Post: a bronze head with a gaping hole...