Word: graven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elephantiac Foot. Giacometti's search is for the man within the graven image. "Heads, heads, heads!" he cries. "I've been doing nothing but heads for years. I'm no farther along than when I did my first bust at 13. Nothing I do will ever be finished, everything remains just another study." The sculptor maligns himself. Actually, his figures, singly and in groups, stand in ever more complex relationships. Increasingly, he has become discontent to leave his bronzes bare, painting their stark silhouettes as if providing the emperor's new clothes. Scale, too, remains...
...visitors have tunneled through the white-domed Shrine of the Book (TIME, April 30). Near by are five acres of contoured gardens, designed by Isamu Noguchi, containing sculptures given by Showman Billy Rose. Called the Billy Rose Art Garden (the word for sculpture-pesel-means a forbidden graven image), its terraces bank abstract works from Henry Moore to Tinguely, representational sculptures from Maillol to Rodin. The nudes not the abstractions forced two of Israel's chief rabbis to snub the inauguration...
...last, loneliest battle, that defiant vow seemed graven on Sir Winston Churchill's soul. Hour after hour, day after day, the world stood vigil as the medical bulletins became ever more grave. But Churchill fought on with almost unbelievable tenacity. Finally, after days of drifting in and out of consciousness, the old warrior sank into peaceful sleep. The battle was over, the lion heart stilled forever...
...questioning the parents about their children's habits. Only after several interviews did the truth come out. The youngsters were spending from three to six hours watching TV every weekday, and six to ten hours on Saturdays and Sundays. Captain Richard M. Narkewicz and Captain Stanley M. Graven told the American Academy of Pediatrics in Manhattan last week that some of the younger children were spending a quarter of their waking hours watching...
...move, and fans at London's Madame Tussaud's were finally sure which was which. Louis Armstrong knocked the rag mops off the top of Variety's singles chart last week, and the whisper was that they had passed their peak. But if their graven images at the world's foremost wax museum were not proof enough of their staying power, Boston Pops Conductor Arthur Fiedler had a bit more...