Word: davids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ever since she was born she has had this style of her own; she has never had to copy anybody," says her approving mother. British Photographer David Bailey, whose early pictures of Jean Shrimpton helped launch her career and who recently shot Penelope for London's Sunday Mirror, concurs. "She's really weird," he says, "almost a caricature of a model. She is a completely original-looking girl, and that is such a nice shock these days...
Duke's chief surgeon and Dr. Fuson's boss, Dr. David C. Sabiston Jr., staunchly endorsed the animal studies with cholestyramine. But he insists cautiously that there is as yet no scientific evidence that patients with artery disease have benefited. Their subjective impressions, he emphasized, are still only suggestive. Not until many of the test patients have had arterial examinations, both before and after taking cholestyramine, will it be possible to find physical proof...
...late U.S. Sculptor-Welder David Smith or to Britain's Richard Smith, whose shaped canvases won the grand prize at the current Sao Paulo Bienal. -Not all fabricators do such good work. A duplicate of Die was ordered from a Los Angeles firm for last spring's County Museum sculpture survey show, but its surface is badly scratched and, for lack of proper interior bracing, it has an oddly flimsy look...
...Western civilization have been largely architectural: skyscrapers, grain silos, factories, petroleum drums, bridges. But Egypt matched its pyramids and temples with obelisks and sphinxes, while Greece's Parthenon was glorified by the handiwork of Phidias. Michelangelo unified Florence's Piazza della Signoria with his 14-ft.-high David-which was positioned in front of the Palazzo Vecchio by a committee that included Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli...
...downtown Manhattan Park Place Gallery, constructs giant wood, steel, rubber-tire and rope constructions at his New Jersey junkyard. They are often designed to let viewers ride or swing on them, carry richly evocative titles such as Elohirn Adonai, Stuyvesantseye or Love Makes the World Go 'Round. -David von Schlegall, 47, is a space-age Mainer who fabricates immense wing-shaped constructions and soaring bolts out of shiny aluminum. One of his giant untitled works, supported by an interior space frame, is currently on display outside the Union Carbide building in New York...