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...inventor of the device, Dr. Robert Jarvik, 36, was also present. The son of a doctor, Jarvik designed his first medical invention, a surgical stapler, while still in high school. His interest in the heart was prompted by his father's battle with cardiac disease. A spare-time sculptor, Jarvik was able to combine his artistic and medical interests as a design engineer at Utah's artificial-organ program beginning in 1971; he earned his medical degree there...
...victim of her husband's machismo. She was a tiny, tough-mouthed daughter of a photographer of Hungarian-Jewish descent and a strikingly attractive woman from Oaxaca. Frida herself had a gamy beauty that drew lovers of both sexes. There seem to have been dozens of them, including Sculptor Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky, the exiled Russian revolutionary who died in Mexico shortly after a Stalinist agent put the point of an ice ax through his head. Frida initiated the affair with Trotsky, not because she found "Piochitas" (little goatee) attractive but because she thought the trysts would...
...mate dies in his arms. The man loves symbols. He slides his hands across his face, as if trying on masks. His expression changes quickly, precisely, but never subtly: it is a childlike grin, or a petulant frown, or a quivering rage. In another moment, the man is a sculptor, chiseling a massive imaginary block until it becomes a miniature, a fragment, then dust. Slow fade, then, to emphasize that this is a self-conscious metaphor for the man's own meticulous, minimal art. -By William A. Henry...
Smith's energy made people talk about him as a "monumental" sculptor...
...object lesson in what scale means, in the relationship between the sculptured object and the body of the viewer. And it was in his ability to create large steel equivalents for the sensations of the body, unclouded by apparent doubt or fear, that his monumentality as a sculptor...