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...manner, often truculent, nor his medium - gigantic welded iron and steel objects -did much to hasten his fame. Awarded a $1,000 prize at the 1961 Carnegie International, he refused the money, suggested that it be used by the museum to buy some art. "Sculpture has been a whore for many ages," he would...
...complains, "it was always 'Hollywood's Andre Previn came here last week and . . .' To have written a Broadway score is O.K., even admirable; having played a lot of jazz is O.K., but less admirable. But somehow, having worked in Hollywood is like being a well-known whore...
...urging, or enticing, the boys to sign up. When she begins her song there's a jaunty, frolicsome quality to her, something heart-to-heart about what she says. Between measures, it seemed, her voice got hard, her body began to cut sultry pendulum arcs and she was a whore with a nation for clients and patriotism as a negligee. Listening to her and realizing that her song, which had undoubtedly drawn men to death, would be bracketed in the show by laughter--indeed the song itself brought a few laughs--was an experience not in itself laughable...
...could have driven a mother and young children to kill? Though Gertrude Baniszewski, a divorcee, pleaded insanity, three court-appointed psychiatrists pronounced her sane. One conceded that she possessed "a capacity for violent action," which may have been aroused by Sylvia's calling her daughter Stephanie, 15, a whore. As for the child sadists, it seemed that Mrs. Baniszewski's blood lust had infected them, and that Sylvia's passivity only whetted their murderous zeal...
Fist makes out much better with Mona, a townie whore with a heart of platinum, and an impressive smattering of all the scholastic disciplines gleaned from faculty clientele. In fact, he likes Mona so much that in one of the most sadly comic episodes in the book, he takes her home and introduces her to his parents. Mom is horrified; Dad is too, but-wow, that sweater...