Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Lee Oscar Lawrie, 85, German-born U.S. sculptor best known for his huge bronze Atlas in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, which supports only a skeletal globe because the Rockefellers feared that a solid sphere would darken the nearby window fronts; of cancer; in Easton, Md. Among his other massive works: sculptures ornamenting the Bok "Singing Tower" at Lake Wales, Fla., the U.S. battle monument at Saint-James Manche, France, and the 8½-ton statue of a muscle-bound grain sower that stands atop Nebraska's state capitol...
Sick and sixteen, the heroine is the daughter of a U.S. officer who puts her up at a fancy French academy while he assiduously golfs to keep himself in SHAPE. Flirty and thirty, the hero is a sculptor who sponges off a rich woman (Françoise Prévost)-and takes her money too. One day the girl jumps the wall that divides her school from his house, and introduces herself. She needs a man, she world-wearily explains to him. "from time to time." He needs a change of sheets to help him sleep better-he has nightmares...
...done by Russian Painter Robert Falk in 1922, which Art Critic Khrushchev had derided, Ehrenburg said: "You and I, Nikita Sergeevich, are getting on and haven't got much time left. But Falk's painting will live as long as there are lovers of beauty." Next, Abstract Sculptor Ernst Neizvesnty, whose work also had been attacked by Nikita, took the floor. "You may not like my work, Comrade Khrushchev," the sculptor said, "but it has the warm admiration of such eminent Soviet scientists as Kapitsa and Landau." Retorted Khrushchev scornfully: "That's not why we admire Kapitsa...
...beginning sensed the need for a sculpture that would "float in space and relate in a contemporary manner to the interior of the foyer, just as the magnificent crystal chandeliers of a former day took command of their space." He selected one of the best space-commanders around: Sculptor Richard Lippold...
...adolescent boy clutches a four-leaf clover and gazes imploringly at the ceiling; he is called The Wish. The pieces are both funny and sad, a bit crude and yet full of vitality. On view at Manhattan's Graham Gallery, they are the work of the Czech-born sculptor Ludvik Durchanek: a rough-hewn talent of considerable versatility and force...