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...social realism. "The content of my sculpture," he recently declared, "is derived from my feeling of despair. Realism is best suited to convey the frightening idiosyncrasies of our time." So his work makes up a chamber of all-American horrors: lifesize, startlingly real figures cast in Fiberglas and polyester resin. A group of Bowery winos sprawl filthily on a littered sidewalk; a dead motorcyclist, hideously mangled, lies pinned under his wrecked machine. In Tourists, Hanson extends his distaste to Mr. and Mrs. Middle America on vacation somewhere in the sun: he with his Hawaiian shirt and baggy Bermuda shorts...
...Royce's troubles are those of a cash-short player trying to keep up with the international competition. Its financial troubles have been compounded by technological problems encountered in developing the TriStar's engine. Rolls-Royce's pioneering use of "Hyfil"carbon fibers laminated with resinfor fan blades produced an engine that was lighter and more economical on fuel. But the Hyfil blades were vulnerable to damage by birds drawn into an engine during takeoff or flight. A 4-lb. bird makes an impact equivalent to two tons on a spinning turbine. Engineers...
...sense of guilt that even his Bordeaux landscape wore the aspect of sin, as expressed in the outburst of a character in his last novel, Maltaverne: "I cannot give up this land, this stream, the sky beneath the tops of the pine trees, those beloved giants, that scent of resin and marshland, which-am I crazy?-is the very odor of my despair...
...horizon by the eagle-eyed and sleepless watchers, when the hay in the fields began to move and sigh and the Great Hot Wind from the Desert began to blow. Wind which in September would have been a sublime blessing, which would have caused the flowers to produce resin to coat their sacred leaves, the same hot wind in August brought about the calamity which led to the Great Migration of our Southern Brothers...
...Cover: epoxy resin sculpture by Frank Gallo. Though Gallo's slender, sexy swingers grace many museums and private collections around the world, this is his first for TIME and first of a real, live girl. The others have all been imaginary. The sculpture took three weeks to complete, and Gallo personally brought it from Champaign, Ill., to New York-it sat beside him in a first-class Ozark Air Lines seat. At first the package was too bulky to get the seat belt around, so Gallo was obliged to unwrap it. That caused quite a stir on the plane...