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DIED. GONZALO FONSECA, 74, Uruguayan sculptor whose cryptic carvings, punctuated by unexpected hollows and totemic objects, were influenced by his excavations of pre-Columbian ruins; of a stroke; in Seravezza, Italy...
Under the searching Tuscan sunlight, the dialogue between the vast, worn stones of the fortress and Moore's luminously translucent Seravezza marble becomes a public conversation between two old friends. This is appropriate, considering how deeply embedded Moore's work is in the Italian tradition of monumental form. To see his largest piece, the 18-foot high, 170-ton Square Form with Cut, 1969-70, against Brunelleschi's apricot-colored dome of Santa Maria del Fiore is to realize how completely Moore has conquered the problems of architectonic scale, and how little the basic forms that satisfy...
...rocky slopes outside Seravezza in Italy, Private First Class Sadao S. Munemori, a Nisei and a member of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team, was killed when he flung himself on a German hand grenade as it rolled toward two of his comrades. The President awarded him the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously. Last week, in a ceremony at the Brooklyn Army Base, the Army transport Wilson Victory was renamed the Private Sadao S. Munemori in his honor, and in honor of all Nisei who had died in the service of the U.S. Said his brother: "Sadao told my mother...
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