Word: grosvenors
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About 7000 protest marchers thronged Grosvenor Square and hurled firecrackers, smoke bombs, and other missiles. Most were cleared from in front of the embassy after a siege lasting nearly three hours...
Looting was reported as darkness fell over Grosvenor Square, which was left looking like a garbage dump under piles of torn pamphlets and banners...
...hard core of about 200 Mao-style Communists, along with anarchists and other extremists, defied the organizers and swarmed into Grosvenor Square looking for trouble...
...prospect of a floating sculpture is particularly pleasing for Grosvenor because he has had long experience with the sea. Born rich and raised in the rich stretches of Newport's Ocean Drive, he sails his own 20-ft. gaff-rigged sloop. After studying architecture in Paris, he experimented with abstract expressionist painting and junk sculpture in a Manhattan loft. Then one day he stepped into an elevator that wasn't there, and the fall broke both his legs. In the course of his six-months' hospitalization he meditated and discovered his true bent. Today he first sketches...
...Grosvenor likes nothing better than to design a work to fit a particular space. But he has learned that there is nothing more important than the choice of a client. Invited by Hugh Hefner to do a lobby for a Playboy Club in Wisconsin, Grosvenor proposed a piece so large that people would have to walk over or around it. Hefner never actually told him in so many words that it would not do. "Next thing I knew," Grosvenor recalls, "they were buying $9,000 trees to put where my piece was supposed to go." Grosvenor is currently at work...