Word: kiesler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Frederick Kiesler, 76, visionary architect and sculptor, Vienna-born designer (with Partner Armand Bartos) of Jerusalem's underground Shrine of the Book, who is also credited with fathering off-Broadway's theater-in-the-round; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As tiny (4 ft. 10 in.) as a sparrow, Kiesler spent his life seeking "a continuously flowing world" in such structures as his free-form 1934 "Endless House," which had "no beginning and no end, like the human body...
Under the pensive gaze of Rodin's Thinker, mounting the show took the Modern's Director René d'Harnoncourt a full month. "For example," he said, "there was the problem of installing a 73-ft. chain to support Frederick Kiesler's Last Judgment. The museum was most helpful, but Rodin faces keep popping out in the strangest places...
...flat broke," she told a Los Angeles court. It was a little hard to believe coming from the woman who dined ecstatically off solid-gold plates during her heyday. Just the same, Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler Mandl Markey Loder Stauffer Lee Boies, better known as Hedy Lamarr, 50, insists that it is true. And so she is asking $3,510 temporary monthly alimony in a divorce suit she has filed against her sixth husband, Los Angeles Attorney Lewis W. Boies Jr., 44. Her daughter, Denise Hedy Lee, 20, hopes for a different kind of life. A sophomore at the University...
...from the children of the 70-year-old Canadian liquor magnate. Billy Rose estimates that his garden cost $1,600,000. But no one seems to mind a bit that this whole art complex lies within gunshot of the barbed-wire border of Jordan. Only the Isaiah scroll in Kiesler's shrine can lower into the safety of a bombproof pit. Explained Rose: "If there are a couple of million people who are willing to gamble flesh and blood on Israel, I don't see why I can't gamble a few tons of stone and marble...
Rising high in the center stands a bronze fountain, girdled beneath by the 22-ft.-long Scroll of Isaiah; the fountain sends a jet of water through an opening in the dome to baptize the exterior tile. Says Kiesler: "It is a purification, just as the Dead Sea sect purified themselves in water thrice daily." Below the sanctuary is a crypt of rubbly red rock, lined with relics that reveal the life of the 2nd century Jewish rebels who fought the Romans from their caves. Emerging from the sanctuary, the visitor travels along a 150-ft.-long roofless corridor...