Word: del
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skull of the late actor-comedian Del Close was given to Chicago's Goodman Theatre for use in roles like Hamlet's Yorick that call for such deadpan talent...
...weekend, crews were still sifting rubble for four missing persons. Mostly the searchers turned up not corpses but the mere record of lives: a half-buried checkbook, a Christmas-tree stand, a little red wagon crushed under a beam. In Del City, Monica Hicks wandered the vacant lot that had been her home and remarked, "I knew it would be bad, but I didn't prepare myself for this. My three-year-old said, 'Mommy, the tornado ate our house.'" Hicks spotted a pink plastic Cadillac on the ground with a doll at the wheel and broke into a loopy...
Kiely's only stipulation of the deal, Del Deo recalls, was that the young artist keep the master apprised of his progress. And over the five years that Del Deo would utilize the space and become closer to the Kiely family--first as a House resident and then as a House tutor--he would draw up a letter to Kiely with details of the week's work and leave it on Kiely's desk...
...studies concentrator and up-and-coming sculptor, the other a father of four and professor of English just six years into his term in the House--had never actually met. "I didn't know who he was at all--all I knew was that he was encouraging the arts," Del Deo says...
...that I'm older and look back, it was incredibly brave," says Del Deo, a self-described "perfect stranger" who worked in Apthorp late into the night, now an internationally known sculptor. "It completely changed my undergraduate experience. It was amazing that he did that...