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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fearlessly at home in the water, the way a fisherman's sons often are, the Fukushi brothers splashed about last week in the protective shallows breaking over the narrow shale shelf of their little beach on Okujiri Island, ten miles off Hokkaido's southwestern shore. When 14-year-old Masami Fukushi plunged off the shelf and sprinted out into deep water toward a rock 50 yards away, his younger brothers, Masakatsu, 12, Takeshi, 10, and Takeaki. 9, quickly gave chase...
...whit for his opinions." Asked his opinion of other sculptors, the big man in the long-billed baseball cap would per mit himself a little twist . of a smile : "When I want to see a great sculptor, I have to look in the mirror." Critics and collectors often agreed with Epstein's self-appraisal, kept him comfort ably supplied with commissions. He proved himself the greatest portraitist of modern sculpture, immortalized hosts of the great (including the frozenly quizzical Somerset Maugham and the electric-haired "Ein") with dashing busts that almost seemed to breathe. "What could be more interesting...
Trouble is that when the big bolt strikes, the plasma writhes and twists, often breaks out of the magnetic field and dissipates its heat into the walls of whatever sort of outer container is being used...
Walking fast, the bird man moved through the neighborhood, in and out of driveways and over lawns, flapping the aluminum cricket bats together, not looking where he was going, but staring piercingly into the trees. The starlings stared back. The bird man kept the bats banging, every so often used one to stroke the tube hanging from his neck...
...roving surgeon flew in, and at Dr. Dooley's request removed what he could of the lump, sent it to the laboratory for testing. Last week Dr. Dooley was back in the U.S. on the strength of the lab report: sarcoma-a fast-spreading cancer, often quickly fatal...