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...ever seen." Said Bishop James Cannon Jr. in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "The woman's back and hips are poorly portrayed." Said Artist Binford: "When and how did this bishop become an authority on the 'backs and hips' of nude women? Scat, Bishop! Get off my scaffold. I am not trying to swarm your pulpit." Result: his mural is still in the sketch stage...
...Epstein career has proceeded by a mounting series of sensations. It began in 1908. Commissioned to sculpt decorations for the British Medical Association Building, Epstein spent 14 frantic months suspended on a scaffold high above London's busy Strand. When the scaffolding was removed from his first five oversized nudes, the storm broke. Wrote the Evening Standard on page 1: "It is unnecessary to say any more than that they are a form of statuary which no careful father would wish his daughter, or no discriminating young man, his fiancée, to see." Result: for thousands of careful...
...Victor Hugo (on the 20th Century)-"War will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, animosity will be dead, but man will live...
...last week Winston Churchill declared: "A river of blood has flowed and is flowing between the German race and the peoples of all Europe. It is not the hot blood of battle, where good blows are given and returned. It is the cold blood of the execution yard and scaffold, which leaves a stain indelible for generations and for centuries...
...Father John Collins had finished the Church's last rites to two youthful prisoners. The priest left, and then the young men walked down the prison yard to a scaffold. Their hands were tied, black hoods were slipped over their heads, and a rope was fitted snugly around their necks. As the executioners sprang the traps, witnesses removed their hats...