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Died. David Smith, 59, noted U.S. metal sculptor, a onetime auto assembly-line welder who made an art of his trade with huge (up to 20 ft. tall), generally abstract creations, welding together metal bars, sheets, wheels, gears and grilles in a brilliant use of open form that, while long underestimated by the buying public, won him ranking by critics among such better-known sculptors as Calder, Moore and Giacometti; of a fractured skull suffered in an auto accident; in Albany...
...newest acquisitions, lifted into place last week, are two reliefs by Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manzù, 56, who did the Doors of Death for St. Peter's in Rome (TIME, July 24). Designed for the portal of the Palazzo d'ltalia, the bronze plaques replace a blatant bit of Mussolini modern-a 1935 glass panel of a lump-shouldered shoveler by one Attilio Piccirilli, inscribed ART IS LABOR; LABOR IS ART. "Brutto!" exclaimed Manzù when he saw it and, commissioned by the Fiat automobile company, engraved in 1963 his own images in bronze...
...pilgrimage. Another panel above the doors bears the letters ITALIA and a wishbone-shaped motif of intertwined wheat stalks and vines. Like the bunches of onions hanging in Manzù's kitchen near Rome, it is a fruitful symbol of the emigrant's search, as the sculptor says, for "the two principal things-drinking and eating...
...Michigan's murkiest depths, a scruffy, bearded old tramp (Lou Gilbert) wades ashore wearing dirty long underwear. He pushes an obese violinist through the streets of Chicago in a wheelchair. He is pursued through the phallic phantasmagoria of a sausage factory by a uniformed guard until a junk sculptor (Thomas Erhart) darts to his rescue. The sculptor defeats the guard, who is ground into lunch meat...
...tramp Goldstein may be the elusive prophet Elijah, or perhaps Godot, or God, or the junk sculptor's father. He disappears, and the sculptor searches the city, but fails to find Goldstein, or even to get a fix on his own identity. Instead, the sculptor falls in with Novelist Nelson Algren, who is interviewed at home among portraits of relatives, nudes and famous boxers. To raise everyone's low spirits, a pair of Manhattan abortionists (Severn Darden and Anthony Holland) are flown in to minister to the sculptor's girl friend. In a campy comedy sequence played...