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Bernard Reder has, in a sense, been perennially out of fashion. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he has always disliked modeling in clay, preferring to work with hammer and chisel. Even today, though he now models in wax, the material that gives him the most spontaneity, he still approaches each work as if it were to be hewn out of a mass. "I am a sculptor," says he, "who enters the volume: always I conserve the block." This concept of "volumetricity" is basic to his art. Each statue, says Reder, must be seen from all sides and not just frontally...
...Orleans Rhythm Kings: Tin Roof Blues (Riverside). Chicago style-blary, jagged, and rough around the edges-by one of the two bands (along with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band) that ruled the North and South Sides in the old days. Put on wax in the early '20s, these performances are a reminder that the King of the Kings was the late Clarinetist Leon Rappolo, whose solos in such numbers as Tiger Rag and the title song (also known as Jazzin' Babies) are taut as a bent...
Since he is painter, sculptor, writer, and a poet of sorts as well, his colleagues are apt to wax rhapsodic over him. "He is the Leonardo of our time," says Michigan's Eero Saarinen. "He has provided enough for a whole generation to live on," says Walter Gropius. "The world's greatest architect," says Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer. Adds Arthur Drexler, director of the Department of Architecture and Design at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art: "I go through phases in my thoughts about his work. In these, I sit back and think Corbu is even...
...They do, the damn frogs, and I had the misfortune of drinking it once. It took me four years to get over that slop. It was made from the wax in the ears of Clemenceau...
...automobile business today," he says, "and your only profit is in selling new cars, you aren't going to make money. You have to be in insurance, financing, the whole ball of wax." He owns Grand Insurance Corp.. Grand Acceptance Corp., a finance company that will handle one-third of Courtesy's financing by year's end. and Grand Finance Corp...