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...most revered elder statesman of what had once been Europe's proudest scientific establishment. He collected many awards, including a Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of fission. But he always accepted such honors with characteristic humility. Visiting an atomic reactor or nuclear power station, he would shrug modestly: "It has all been the work of others." In a soon-to-be-published 300-page memoir, he brushed off his historic work in fewer than five pages. Last week, at the age of 89, the father of fission died peacefully in his beloved Göttingen...
...more worried when Williams disappeared from his Manhattan apartment. Reporters finally located him last week at his house in Key West, refusing to talk about anything. "He must have had a bad scare," judged Dakin. Tennessee's mother, Mrs. Edwina Williams, 86, took the whole thing with a shrug: "My son has done such things before...
Whether gulping fresh air as a tyro mountain climber or rapids shooter, staring down hostile students in South America or frenzied crowds at home, he had only a shrug for death. He made a point of declining police protection when it was offered?as it was last week in Los Angeles?and his unofficial bodyguard went unarmed. To the crowds whose raucous adulation drew him endlessly to the brink of physical peril, he seemed to offer a choice: Raise me up with your voices and votes, or trample me with your strength...
Connie was beautiful. She smiled when she sang in her clear, almost old fashioned style. The lead was playing cool, yellow shades, and long locks adrift in the wind, he would simply shrug his shoulders when he got bored with a rip and with a graceful change of gears slip into something...
Paradoxically, the very directness of Morris' sculptures is what flummoxes gallery goers. If they follow his advice not to explore the work, they will shrug and leave. If, on the other hand, they ignore him and study the work, they will find it witty, ironic, subtly allusive. One lady collector recalls that, when her companion strolled toward one of Morris' grey Fiberglas doorshapes in a gallery, she suddenly felt compelled to call out "Stop." "I don't know why," she says, laughing nervously, "but it was almost like a man violating a woman." She has since bought...