Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Verlaan's assistants was a sculptor named Hendrik Vreeling. Last winter he began to think about the gargoyles that Verlaan had planned to surround the steeple at the 230-foot mark. Why not, Vreeling suggested, have a little fun with the job by imitating the medieval builders and carving some unconventional gargoyles? Great idea, replied Verlaan. He suggested something "eternal"-comic strip characters, perhaps. The delighted sculptor went off to work, within three months hacked out 23 stone figures copied from the cartoons of Hollywood's Walt Disney and from a popular Dutch cartoonist named Maarten Toonder. Among...
Born. To Franç Sagan, 27, French hunt-and-peek novelist of random dalliance who recently published her fifth (see BOOKS), and Robert Westhoff, 31, an expatriate U.S. sculptor: a boy; in Paris...
...customer's first time, then the master himself will study the mass of wet hair for several minutes, like a sculptor contemplating a virgin block of granite...
...that was attended, if sometimes only briefly, by "everybody."' The next night, the Chicago collectors Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Maremont chartered a vaporetto to take 130 guests to dine on the island of Torcello. After dinner, a band was brought in and everyone did the twist, including British Sculptor Lynn Chadwick and René d'Harnoncourt, the chief dignitary from Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...McGuire, a landscape architect; Maria Teresa M. Moevs, a classical archaeologist wife of Robert Moevs, assistant professor of Music; Tillie Olsen, a creative writer who won the 1961 O. Henry Award for the best American short story published in the previous year; and Marianna Pineda, a prize-winning sculptor...