Word: sculptress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people who turned out for a party honoring Louise Nevelson got a twofer. It was the famed sculptress's 80th birthday, and she was also being saluted by New York's Municipal Art Society as a champion of urban art. Nevelson steadfastly refused to blow out the 80 candles, saying, "Let them burn and burn and burn." They...
Leslie said that Jennie's niece, Clare Sheridan, who was Winston Churchill's only female cousin, was able to "battle out of the same world that held Jennie in its clutches." A sculptress and journalist who journeyed to Moscow and lived in the Kremlin during the Russian Revolution, Clare "was the first great romantic career women...
...explains. "We're all handicapped. We all need to move in." The sanctuary, into which people on the street can freely gaze, has movable pews, a movable altar and a 2,175-pipe German organ that stands like a sculpture on one wall. Pastor Peterson persuaded premiere Sculptress Louise Nevelson, a Russian Jew, to design the interior of a small chapel, for which she made five white-on-white wood sculptures and a white-and-gold Nevelsonian crucifix...
...book, the man with these radical ideas emerges as a charming, courtly Frenchman who proved singularly attractive to women. One major figure in the Lukases' story is Lucile Swan, a well-to-do American sculptress separated from her husband. She talked long hours in Peking with the priest and eventually became embittered at his total commitment to celibacy. Teilhard could willingly suffer the privations of expeditions into the northwestern wastes of China. But he seemed more at home attending salon gatherings with personalities ranging from Biologist Julian Huxley to Actress Linda Darnell...
...this ever-less meaningful relationship be saved? Bill Bumpers, a fledgling marriage counselor and self-described "victim of an intact home," tries his best. He advises Hattie and Ma to humor Heck in his plan to set up a ménage à trois with a local sculptress. Hattie promises her husband that Ma will not interfere: "She knows four's a crowd." But the crowd at Pretty Pass (as Heck now calls his farm) keeps growing; no sooner is someone hired to do the actual work around the place than he is seduced by the "crackle of civilized...