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...major success of the antibandit drive to date has been the capture of the most celebrated bandit of them all, Graziano Mesina, 26. The darkly handsome Mesina, an idol to many Sardinian women and youth, surrendered without a fight last month when stopped at a police roadblock. But thousands of his cohorts have managed to elude their pursuers and blithely continue to collect their ransoms. Feeding the specter of fear, they have sent their kidnap victims back home with breathless accounts of their cruelty. "They talked in an atmosphere of bestial excitement," reported wealthy Cattleman Giovanni Campus, 32, whose family...
Signature Window. Breuer's problem began when he was handed a small corner plot only 104 ft. by 125 ft. To create within five stories a total floor space seven times as great as the site, he proceeded much like a Sardinian baker, who, with every piece of dough he subtracts, adds it back some place else in the loaf. Thus to compensate for space lost by the indoor-outdoor sculpture garden and the host of first-floor functional requirements, from coat racks and publications desk to unloading platforms, Breuer designed cantilevered upper floors to produce progressively larger galleries...
Although Corbu became the most influential, and possibly the most irritable architect of the 20th century (TIME cover, May 5, 1961), he could only bear the friendship of down-to-earth people, such as his Monaco-born wife Yvonne Gallis, who died in 1957, and the Sardinian-born sculptor Costantino Nivola, for whose Long Island house he did murals. Mainly, he took refuge in solitude. For the past 15 years he summered in seclusion at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin-on the French Riviera. There he avoided autograph hunters in a 6-ft. by 15-ft. two-room cabin with a corrugated...
...sinewy Sardinian immigrant, Nivola loves outdoor public sculpture. He has sand-cast a 100-ton bas-relief for a Hartford, Conn., insurance company, carved out abstract fountains and reliefs in raw concrete for the late Eero Saarinen's brace of new colleges at Yale...
...paint impressionistic oils of ladies dipping their toes in the surf. Last week the art colony was at its midseason busiest. The oldest colonial, visionary Architect Frederick Kiesler, 67, was at work on a 46-ft. sculpture despite a recent heart attack. Sculptor Costantino Nivola, 53, a swarthy Sardinian who likes to cast concrete abstracts in a huge sand pit on his 40-acre property, was busy making a small sculpture of Kiesler...