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...specify it; we fabricate it," boasted the Industrial Welding Co. on a sign flanking Newark's Ferry Street. Industrial had in mind smokestacks, chemical tanks and it gave an idea to Sculptor Tony Smith, who passed the sign whenever he drove from his home in South Orange, N.J., to Manhattan. So, one day eight years ago, he picked up the phone and ordered a sculpture...
Like an objets trouves sculptor, Director Claude Chabrol (La Femme Infidele) likes to give commonplaces a classic aspect. Is coincidence a cliche? Very well, then, the father, Charles Thenier (Michel Duchaussoy), learns the identity of the hit-and-run murderer by a convenient accident. Are villains too often betes noiresl The driver is a child-beating, wife-torturing, mistress-abusing salaud. Does the pursuer fall in love with his quarry-as Belmondo did with Deneuve in Mississippi Mermaid! The villain's mistress (Caroline Cellier) is a lodestar of beauty and melancholia. Naturally, Charles is smitten...
...exile was welcomed home posthumously with a large exhibition of his sculpture, drawings and stage designs at Madrid's Museum of Contemporary Art. Critics hailed the show as a revelation. "The missing link in contemporary Spanish art," wrote one. "A fiesta mayor," declared another. "Like El Cid, the sculptor has returned to the land where he was born and lived his Spanish years to win new battles after death...
...debate was quickly picked up by Italian newspapers and magazines -and by Orvietans, who had something new to talk about as they sipped espresso in the town's cafes. Perhaps the only one who was totally pleased with the result was Sculptor Greco; once the doors were installed at the cathedral, he was finally able to collect his $80,000 commission...
...church had commissioned the portals from Sicilian-born Sculptor Emilio Greco, 56, a friend and admirer of Giacomo Manzu, who designed the impressive bronze Doors of Death for St. Peter's basilica in Rome. For the main entrance, Greco created a 24-ft.-high, two-ton bronze relief depicting Catholicism's seven corporal works of mercy. One scene, for example, showed Pope John XXIII on his visit to Rome's Regina Coeli prison in 1958; Greco's presentation of burying the dead uses angled limbs and tortured faces to convey a strong sense of grief...