Word: grecians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold here. So you have to train yourself to ignore it." For years, Nakian has been training exuberantly at his Stamford, Conn., studio by designing huge, flagrant evocations of Greek nymphs and goddesses (see color opposite). Modern U.S. sculpture in classical themes seems a bit like vodka martinis in Grecian urns. Yet Nakian's polylithic Ledas, Hecubas and Olympias are lusted after by some of the most adventurous contemporary curators and collectors in the country...
...Means enslavement from Helos, a Grecian town whose inhabitants were conquered by their militant neighbors, the ancient Spartans, about...
Simply reproduce the Grecian urn he took delight...
...middle of the bed." Thus two Americans awake to the "normal havoc" of a Sicilian morning. Howard is a huge, blond, earnest young graduate student; Sarah, his wife, is a humorous, easygoing girl with honey-colored hair and long shapely legs. They have come to Agrigento to inspect the Grecian ruins and enjoy the local color; but they stay, as Author Tom Cole relates in the superb novella that dominates his first book of stories, because Sicily seizes them in its primordial field of force...
...sold off some unprofitable properties, clipped personnel, then went to work on the theater operations. Today he puts in six days a week at his Beverly Hills office, personally screens most of the films National shows, likes to relax Sunday afternoons in the swimming pool of his $500,000 Grecian-modern mansion...