Word: hewn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fashion. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he has always disliked modeling in clay, preferring to work with hammer and chisel. Even today, though he now models in wax, the material that gives him the most spontaneity, he still approaches each work as if it were to be hewn out of a mass. "I am a sculptor," says he, "who enters the volume: always I conserve the block." This concept of "volumetricity" is basic to his art. Each statue, says Reder, must be seen from all sides and not just frontally. The big Whitney show, which will open late in September...
Built on a saddle between two peaks, Machu Picchu is surrounded by a granite wall, can be entered only by one main gate. Inside is a maze of a thousand ruined houses, temples, palaces, and staircases, all hewn from white granite and dominated by a great granite sundial. In Quechua, language of the sun-worshipping Incas and their present-day descendants, the dial was known as Intihuatana-hitching post...
...widower since 1943, tapir-nosed Comic Jimmy Duronte, 67, has long been a prime target for ladies in search of a mature man with wit. poise and rough-hewn charm. But Durante's only favorite since 1945 has been sometime Actress Margie Little, 39, who knows that a good man is not only hard to find but, in Durante's case, even harder to catch. The couple got engaged ten years ago, and by 1956 Jimmy mustered the courage to announce that they would be married the following year. The betrothal stretched out over the next four years...
...Pete Seeger, 41, quit Harvard to study folk music, has since cut some 50 albums that have made him the hero of the col lege folk revival. Seeger's voice is twangy and his pitch uncertain, but he sings with unequaled verve and a kind of rough-hewn sense of conviction. An ardent leftwinger, he once sang many industrial songs, now is better known for Appalachian mountain songs (Pretty Polly) and Negro classics like I'm on My Way and Takes a Worried...
...wonder whether this chronicler of corporate Lancelots has abandoned the executive suite for the ducal fortress. He has done no such thing, of course. The Lords are not border chiefs but a matrimonial amalgam-Lincoln and Maggie Lord, that is. Lincoln is an organization mandible-a tanned, nobly hewn jaw suspended six feet from the floor and usually worth $50,000 a year because it inspires respect and belief when it flaps, strikes fear when it is silent. Pretty, intelligent Maggie, every tailored inch a corporation wife, wonders if there is anything more to her husband...