Word: modeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...structure, the museum is set in a gracious garden of lawns, rosebushes, palms and pines at Ardea, 25 miles south of Rome. It houses 67 bronze sculptures, 271 drawings, 36 engravings and 40 gold figurines and medallions. All were donated by Inge Schabel, Manzu's longtime companion and model, with whom he has lived since 1954 and by whom he has two children, Giulia, 6, and Mileto, 4. Manzu had given the works to her as a kind of unofficial legacy. Otherwise, at his death, they would legally have gone to his wife. The couple have long been separated...
...Though the family car appears to be a standard Pontiac station wagon, it was custom built. "I wrote to the head man at G.M.," he beams, "and said, Tm gonna have to desert you if you don't stop makin' cars for women.' " They fixed him up with a model deep enough to accommodate him, Stetson and all. Three of his seven children live with him: Aissa, 13, John Ethan, 7, and Marisa, 3. Two older sons, Pat and Michael, run Wavne's Batjac film-production outfit. And 16 grandchildren frequently wander around the spacious house. No one has counted...
Ardent Lover. In most other states, sex laws are still so archaic they would make Hester Prynne feel at home. Sev en years ago, the American Law Institute proposed a Model Penal Code that would eliminate traditional penalties for sexual relations between consenting adults in private. Connecticut, and to a degree Illinois, have followed the rec ommendations. Montana, Oregon and others are considering similar action...
Couturier Yves Saint Laurent ordered a gold plated copper cast made of Model Veruschka's bosom, slipped it over a mannequin, and sent her down the runway; it was one way to top off a skirt. Courreges had a model roar up to the footlights in a minicar with a Plexiglas dome, and presented another wearing pingpong balls pasted on her oversized sunglasses. Cecil Beaton sketched. Lauren Bacall applauded. Katharine Hepburn hid out from photographers. Coco Chanel curled up on the salon stairway while her collection was shown and coolly surveyed the crush below. But then Chanel has been...
...troubles stem largely from an ambitious M.T.A. effort to make the Long Island a model commuter railroad. Using $132 million in state and federal money, the agency set out two years ago to re-equip the line with 620 fast, air-conditioned Budd Co. cars. Deliveries, which began last fall, have lagged 25 weeks behind schedule, and the cars have developed many bugs. Every day, more than half of the 94 cars accepted so far have been out of service because of mechanical breakdowns. The flashy Budd cars that do run have become prime targets for rock-throwing...