Word: sculptress
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GUITOU KNOOP-Emmerich. 17 East 64th. Balanced like birds poised to fly- and just as graceful-are these 20 polished abstractions in marble, granite and bronze by a Russian-born sculptress who works in Paris. Through...
...building, he was showing something called Gorgo in New York-a papier-mache dinosaur walking over a city of toy cars and trains, a papier-mache serpent crushing a rocking horse, plus gears of a clock, a half-full milk carton, a pot of roses. It was made by Sculptress Niki de Saint-Phalle, who finished the job by spraying it white and splattering it with black by means of shooting attached bags of paint full of bullet holes...
...virtues of his houses (''Has almost luxury bathroom with removable ladder to secret sunbathing roof garden") and jeers at their shortcomings ("Library all of eight feet square suitable for erudite dwarf"). He also whets sales appeal by describing his clients as "hedonist of 19,'' "redheaded sculptress,'' "girl physiotherapist," "former Harvard lecturer turned tycoon in ladies' underwear.'' Frequently, Brooks offers an acid explanation of the owner's reasons for selling: "One of the big pots in chamber music, leader of a famous quartet, taking up suburban residence with former girl viola...
...Where Love Has Gone, are those of the pitiful 1958 murder case in which Cheryl Crane, Lana Turner's daughter, killed Johnny Stompanato, her mother's lover. As usual, some of the details are disguised and some patently fallacious: the mother, for instance, is a beautiful, rich sculptress instead of an actress. Also as usual, the disguises will fool no one, nor are they intended to. Legions of innocents will pick through Robbins' sawdust prose translating "Dani Carey" to Cheryl Crane as they go, and assume at the end that they have been told something about...
...Sculptress Nevelson made her first real splash four years ago with sinister black-massed woodworks, given such titles as Moon Dial and Cathedral in the Sky. She denies that she is presently in a gold period, although most of her work, after being lacquered with several coats to seal the wood, is lavishly spray-bombed with a metallic product called Spray-O-Namel...