Word: sculptor
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...many nations gathered in Athens, casting off fear as before a great battle, to plan restoration of the most beautiful wonder of the ancient world: the marble Parthenon. That hilltop temple of Zeus' daughter, Athena the Virgin (Athena Parthenos), has for 2,400 years brought glory to Phidias, sculptor of its fluted columns, and to farseeing Pericles, and to all the Hellenes...
...backseat of a Mercedes is piled with bags of chicken feed. A jogger is startled when Canada geese suddenly lift off from a soybean field. A sculptor thumbs through Hoard's Dairyman near the life-size statue of a Holstein, while down at Rose & Chubby's Luncheonette, commuters discuss optional features available on new eight-row corn pickers...
BORN. To Meryl Streep, 34, elegant, luminous, Oscar-winning actress (Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie's Choice); and Donald Gummer, 36, sculptor; their second child, a daughter; in New York City. Name: Mary Willa. Weight...
...will drive down from Plymouth Notch, Vt., the family's old home town in the Green Mountains, to Northampton. On the courthouse lawn there, John Coolidge will unveil a new gray granite bust of his father, the tardy fulfillment of a memorial first promised in 1934. The sculptor is Frank Gaylord II of Barre, Vt., whose pantheon includes William Penn, John Kennedy, Arthur Fiedler and Martin Luther King...
...Penck, 43, is a lesser painter and sculptor than Baselitz, but he is a more curious figure. Credit where credit is due: his huge early pictographs like Standard, 1971, have an undeniable, simple power, even a degree of mystery. One realizes where a New York graffiti artist like the fulsomely promoted Keith Haring, 25-the Peter Max of the subways-filched his ideas, a decade later. Penck's paintings consist of stick figures and linear signs, enacting parodies of myth, ritual and archaic language. They draw on a wide range of sources, from algebra to Dipylon vases, from...