Word: sculpts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gingerich is one of a rare breed of professors who take the time to sculpt their courses so that they entertain as well as instruct...
...season in December. During off season the field is usually quiet, except for the occasional concert or ethnic festival but about two weeks ago something changed. Workers covered the field with plastic and plywood and then dumped 600 truckloads of dirt on the field for tractors and bulldozers to sculpt into a motocross track...
...brothels, cabarets and opium dens, with a unique combination of directness, detachment and generosity; of a heart attack; in Eze sur Mer, France. Born Gyula Halász in Brassó (the origin of his pseudonym), in what is now Rumania, he went to Paris in 1924 to sculpt and write, then turned to photography to illustrate his articles. In 1933 his first major collection of seamy scenes, Paris de Nuit, was a sensation; a larger, franker version published in 1976, The Secret Paris of the 30's, was a U.S. bestseller. Brassaï's multiple talents included...
...then the Office of Management and Budget, and finally the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. "He's no ideologue," said one liberal congressman when Weinberger was named Defense Secretary three years ago. "He was one of the people who made things work." "He was the man who would sculpt the Pentagon into a mean, but lean, fighting force...
...studio most nights until the wee hours, he averages four to six hours of sleep a night. More often than not, these work hours pay off. In 1979 the Archdiocese of Boston phoned him 10 days before the Pope was due to arrive to ask him to sculpt the processional crucifix. The artist did it in seven...