Word: junks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sewing machine, old drainpipe, truck fender or pile of angle irons these days knows just where to take it; to the cold-water flat of Sculptor-Welder Richard Stankiewicz, 34, who with little more than an acetylene torch, a welder's tools and his own vivid imagination turns junk into sculpture. Says he: "I take material that is already degenerating, flaking and rusting and then try to make something beautiful out of it. It should hit people over the head and make them ask, 'What is beauty...
Sculptor Stankiewicz came by his love for junk naturally. He was raised in one of Detroit's toughest districts, used a foundry dump for his playground. During a World War II hitch in the U.S. Navy, he found himself whiling away time in the Aleutians by whittling caribou horn, decided to cash in his G.I. Bill on an art education. He studied with Hans Hofmann in Manhattan, polished off in Paris with Painter Fernand Lèger and Sculptor Ossip Zadkine. Back in Manhattan he set out to shape his future by reclaiming the flotsam and jetsam...
...seduction scene takes up the better (and decidedly the worse) part of the picture. The seducer starts working on his victim in the middle of a junk heap back of the house. ("We could play hide and seek," he slyly suggests, and she replies. "Ah'm not athaletic.") He really gets going in the swing, where the camera closes in on her face while his hands are plainly busy elsewhere ("Oooo," she gasps, "Ah feel so weak"), pushes her toward the brink by the pigpen, and apparently ends up with her in the crib after she coyly suggests that...
Some retail groups, such as Arkansas Retail Grocers, want the Government to junk the present distribution system and substitute a food-stamp plan under which needy families would be provided with stamps that could be turned in for groceries at retail stores. Grocers would redeem the stamps with the Government. They argue that a stamp plan would be cheaper and make it easier to keep the cheaters out, but thus far, the Department of Agriculture has cast a cold eye on the plan, and Secretary Benson has called it "unfeasible." Chief reason: a stamp plan would not necessarily drain...
...Weekly News Magazine reported that Dali had misunderstood Tillich's comment about the painting being junk and quoted the artist, saying in rebuttal, "I have been drinking mineral water exclusively for more than ten years...