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...finished form is still a year away, but in his studio a half-size cardboard model made by Hadzi's assistant Romolo Deldeo '82 stands as a preview. Once again, three posts of different colored six-foot tall granite blocks act as a base for stainless steel units on top. With what Hadzi calls a "mysterious, mystical effect," water will come out the top, disappear into the stainless steel, and electrically recycle itself. The water never reaches the ground...
...resist the usual jokes--he calls his subject "George III" for his tyrannical reign over the ballclub, and "the Yankee Clipper" for forcing his charges to get haircuts. (That demand angered at least one Yankee--outfielder Oscar Gamble, whose legendary afro added more than 12" to his six-foot frame, forcing his to affix his baseball cap with bobby pips...
...Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist says, "The most important issue in American jurisprudence today is the treatment of illegal immigrants from Pluto." Saying he was "glad to be fully recovered from my illness and back to my usual schedule," the justice added, "I'll feel even better when that six-foot cocker spaniel stops following me everywhere...
...NOTEBOOK: While giving Cliff Sheehan a pep talk, Adam Dixon was approached by an official and ordered off the track. "It shows how quickly you are forgotten," Dixon said. "It's like being chairman of the Communist party in Russia and suddenly finding yourself in a six-foot cell in Siberia...
Getting a six-foot Christmas tree through the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria and up to your suite is no mean trick. But for such a scene in Six Weeks, due out next Christmas, it seems that the more Moores, the merrier. In the film, Dudley Moore, 46, and Mary Tyler Moore, 43, conduct an extended holiday affair and during their stay in New York decide to install an evergreen in their room. Says Dudley of this eccentric behavior: "I like a character who has the best possible time in the most urgent...