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...Olympic Gateway" was unveiled at ceremonies outside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, a gasp went up from the crowd of spectators. The onlookers' response was as much a reaction to the size as to the subject of Robert Graham's 25-ft.-high, 10-ton, $250,000 sculpture. The two towering figures were nude and, in the current phrase, anatomically correct (if that term applies to bodies that have no heads or feet). Two real Olympic athletes posed for the statues. Their torsos will now be well and fully known to those who pass under the arch...
What all this was was the twelfth annual National Inventors Conference, sponsored by the Patent and Trademark Office, the National Council of Patent Law Associations, and the Bureau of National Affairs. It was held in one of those futuristic hotels-the Marriott Crystal Gateway-and in the Patent and Trademark building. Seventy of the nation's inventors paid $75 apiece to attend workshops (Inventing in Today's World, Funding a New Idea) and to take part in an exposition of inventions. A touching sidelight was a tour of the patent offices...
...driven home again last week as the war entered a new cycle of bloodletting. While thousands of Iraqi and Iranian troops clashed in major battles, the widening conflict reawakened the U.S. and other oil-consuming nations to the threat of a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway through which 20% of the oil supplies of the non-Communist world passes...
Kozintsev's version finds a credible and effective medium between the two choices. Against the hellish background of a black and smoldering castle, the camera shows Lear's death and then curiously turns towards the open gateway of the castle, giving a view of the white-capped water over which a few seagulls lazily fly. It is as if the camera were following the heavenly acensions of Lear's and Cordelia's souls, the only characters to whom redemption is finally offered...
...jury member said the untitled sculpture appealed to him because it has "attractive austere qualities of minimalist art without appearing cold and purely geometric. The sloping, gateway appearance seems to sensitize and smooth the sharp affect of the sculpture...