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...time college dropout, changed his diet (from meat eater to vegetarian) and in doing so envisioned the nation's first natural-food market, which he eventually built into Whole Foods, a $9 billion business that has revolutionized the food industry. Similarly and against terrific odds, inspiration is what propelled ceramicist Eva Zeisel out of prison, where she had been confined on false accusations, and into the studio, where she rekindled her creative spirit and challenged the rigid fundamentals of Bauhaus design with her curvaceous household ceramics. At 100, Zeisel is still perpetuating that singular vision...
...Gittoes' current life is provided by the white cockatoos outside his coastal studio at Bundeena, in a national park just south of Sydney. Here his drawing desk-part of an old cabinet propped up on bricks-seems as improvised as his career. The son of an administrator and a ceramicist, Gittoes dropped out of law studies and, inspired by the visiting modernist art critic Clement Greenberg, traveled to New York in 1968. He studied with the social-realist painter Joe Delaney, and on returning to Sydney the following year, sought to put Delaney's civic-minded ideals to work...
...DIED. JADE SNOW WONG, 84, author and ceramicist whose 1950 memoir of her immigrant childhood, Fifth Chinese Daughter, painted a vivid picture of San Francisco's Chinatown in the early 20th century; in San Francisco. Wong wrote the book in her mid-20s after abandoning plans to become a social worker, opting instead to pursue her talent for pottery, which she later described as a means of making herself "free of Chinese culture's relentless subjugation of women...
...production self-explanatorily titled The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom. DIED. HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA, 74, Japanese film director and artist; in Tokyo. Teshigahara is best known abroad for directing the Oscar-nominated Woman in the Dunes, but he was also a calligrapher,ceramicist and headmaster of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, the renowned flower-arranging academy his father founded in 1927. FILED FOR DIVORCE. JANEFONDA, 63, from TED TURNER, 62, after 10 years of marriage, citing differences arising from herconversion to Christianity; inAtlanta. The billionaire cnn founder and the actress-cum-fitness guru separated last year...
...look inward." If it, and her almost single-minded devotion to work, can be traced to anything, it is to the close- knit, ascetic world of her family. Her parents fled China just before the Communist takeover in 1949 and eventually settled in Athens, Ohio, where her father, a ceramicist, taught for many years at Ohio University, and where her mother, a poet, still does. Her older brother, Tan, is also a poet. Lin's family in China, which included an architect and a famous lawyer who worked for progressive causes, has been described in Jonathan Spence's The Gate...