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Abstract as an apple, its tensile curves suggest nothing but nature as they wind around its 21-ft. height-an ideal counter to the squared shimmer of the Secretariat Building's facade. Symbolically, the bold bronze seems a play on the Swedish diplomat's name-a hammered shield. Inside the pierced circle of the design, Sculptress Hepworth has inscribed: "To the glory of God and the memory of Dag Hammarskjold...
Amiable Opposite. Elizabeth Tipton Walker is 17 and light enough to be lifted in one arm. Her speech comes forth in sporadic marvels, and her feet don't quite brush the ground. Adults instinctively want to shield her. Merrie Marcia Spaeth, on the other hand, has hair that is always carefully waved, an unpuzzled look in her eyes, and an air of absolute balance. As on film, she is an amiable opposite to Tippy...
...neurotic horrors: curious inversions of appearances, petrified wills, secret dreads, loneliness, and despair. These interior stresses are just as commonplace as the banalities that overlay them, even though they are revealed in bizarre ways. The pettiness and self-deception begin to seem less an insipid veneer than a shield for sanity...
...drums filled with balls, where the glass is pulverized into powder. The use of frit-the name is unaccountably derived from the French frit, or fried-is an ancient art. The Egyptians excelled in making jewelry ornamented with frit, and the British Museum owns a fritted warrior's shield more than 1,000 years old. Now that the art has become a thriving modern industry, there are plenty of frit makers. Ferro has managed to outsell all of them and corner 12,500 international customers by setting up frit plants wherever customers can be found. Besides its three main...
That was only a shield to keep the name Barbara Streisand from getting bruised by uncouth hands. She had no desire to drop her own name-"because I wanted all the people I knew when I was younger to know it was me when I became a star." She hated her first name, though, and took an a out of it to shape it up. Today she likes to tell interviewers: "I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure you spell my name wrong...