Word: fountaining
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...route to a day's shooting. Arriving early in the morning, the model wandered happily up the Champs Elysees, down the busy thoroughfares...paused at outdoor boutiques to finger exotic clothes...turned her impressive dreamy profile to gaze out at the Seine and Notre Dame and a extravagant floodlit fountain...
...year-old St. Louis girl went for a dip in a fountain in a popular local park one day in July and was brutally assaulted by two youths who ripped off her shorts and repeatedly raped and sodomized her for 40 minutes. At least three adults stood by and watched as the girl screamed for help. Finally, an eleven-year-old boy alerted authorities...
...similar trend away from his earlier style, Hadzi's work has gotten progressively larger. The four major commissions he has taken on since 1978 vivify this change in their immutable grandeur. In 1978 he completed a colored granite floor mosaic and 16-foot fountain for the headquarters of Johnson Wax in Racine, Wisconsin. Three years later, at the world headquarters of Owens-Illinois in Toledo, Ohio he unveiled his mammoth 36-foot granite "Propylea," its name recalling the welcoming gates of the Acropolis...
Currently, Hadzi has two commissions on his hands. Later this year he will see the installation of his yet-unnamed sculpture fountain in the indoor atrium of the new Copley Place mall in Boston. Running up and down the center of the 60 by 30-foot sculpture are large granite pieces with varying colors, shapes and textures. Water runs down from the top, occasionally disappearing behind the granite. Flanking the middle section on either side are "gates" of travertine from Italy, Turkey and Iran. The inside edges of the travertine billow in and out like waves, or what Hadzi calls...
...made my conversation seem sparkling, music sound better, made me feel good," he recalls. It seemed a fountain of youth. He could beat his 19-year-old son in a three-mile run, and his sex life sizzled. "I could be the macho man I always dreamed about." Soon he was spending $1,000 a week, snorting two grams a day with only minutes between "toots." "Even when you drive, you can pour a little sniff on your hand," he says. After a year of cocaine use, Trop discovered freebasing, and the social highs turned insidiously antisocial. "In the beginning...