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...honor of serving as pedestals to these creations, the modishly coiffed ladies of the Continent are willing to suffer all manner of inconveniences. Doorways, chandeliers and closed carriages pose a constant challenge. Since the more fanciful styles take as long as four hours to sculpt, women often find it necessary to have them done the day before an important event and then sleep sitting up all night to preserve them. The coiffures are constructed to last three or four weeks; when cut open, they often emit a noxious effluvium and occasionally a living creature...
...Porter was not Stravinsky. A modern problem in judging Nadelman's work, with its high stylishness and often lapsed vitality, is that we expect "serious" sculpture to look tough and problematic. Nadelman was so expert at masking problems that he seems to have had none. He wanted to sculpt modern life, but in terms of classical ideality; and in this task he was surprisingly successful...
...both "a terrific collection" and "a good place to turn for a little juice." Studiously avoiding the heavy-rock social scene, Cooder lives with his wife Susan in a roomy house in Santa Monica, Calif., with studios in the basement where he can practice and she can paint and sculpt. Affable enough but always a little shy, he has one eye slightly askew and wears his long hair tied back in a tail, which gives him the look of a congenial, landlocked buccaneer. His sense of humor is spiked with sardonic throwaway lines (he calls dilettante English Rockers who love...
...Califano, the jolly domestic czar for Lyndon Johnson, was in a state of near ecstasy helping to sculpt programs on housing, civil rights, health and education...
Solti is an orchestral architect much in the Toscanini mold. He is not one to pause sentimentally over a favorite melody or chord. The long line is everything. Such basic tools as rhythm and dynamic shading are used to sculpt breathtaking new shapes. His phrasing is at times so tight that it often seems the music is moving more quickly than it actually is. "The things that intrigue me are how to make forms clear," he says, "how to hold a movement together, or if I am conducting opera, how to build an act or a scene." These are traits...