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...memoirs, the gaudy story of his career as manager and trainer of prizefighters-the most famous of whom was Jack Dempsey. One chapter of that book, published in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, contained Kearns's claim that he had packed the bandages on Dempsey's fists with plaster before the 1919 bout in which Dempsey gave Jess Willard a painful beating. Dempsey had no knowledge of the deed, Kearns said, and when SPORTS ILLUSTRATED approached Dempsey before printing the Kearns story, the old champ hotly denied the whole thing. His denial was printed along with Kearns's story...
...move. The Louvre's Venus de Milo, weighing more than a ton, arrived in Japan to grace the summer Olympics, having lost four chips of plaster and marble added during a 19th century restoration (they were glued back on). To enhance the New York World's Fair, Michelangelo's 6,700-lb. Pietà was eased off its pedestal in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, slid down planks lubricated with laundry soap and packed in a double box with a foam plastic that cushions the marble and supports it by filling every cranny...
...inward passions of abstract expressionism. "I was too sensual to turn inside," he says. "I was driving myself crazy as an art student. One teacher agreed and even called me schizophrenic." Now Segal takes a short cut to sculptures; he makes splint personalities by making thin-walled plaster molds of his friends, blurring and refining the wet plaster to his purposes. With his unconventional technique, Segal found a new reality emerging while the plaster set. "To hold a pose for 40 minutes," says he, "you can't be in a social or artificial posture. Then the body reveals certain...
...environment with real objects-a car door, a Coke machine, or a false house front. For a future sculpture, he recently bought a genuine phone booth and took it to his studio, which is on a New Jersey chicken farm that he went bankrupt running. Authentic environments with plaster people raise "questions about the nature of the real object, and of relationships between human beings...
...Indian, always shooting a frame at a time, creating an imaginative suggestion of stones alive in nature, a reason-be-damned admixture of the commonplace with the impossible. This technique works best of all in The Room. It is an abysmally shabby Greenwich Village flat, filthy and gloomy, with plaster fallen off the walls. Suddenly color begins appearing. The room paints itself in wild patterns and uninhibited blazes of Latin shades. It is a resurrection in primary hues...