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...exhibit at the Carpenter Center, and it feels alive, in an age dominated by steel fabricated sculpture. Hadzi is a determined texturalist, sculpting pieces which have a natural quality to them, as if they were made of the earth. The bronze doors on St. Paul's Church in Rome are his, and his monumental pieces stand in New York's Lincoln Center, outside Boston City Hall, and starting in 1984, here in Harvard Square...
...Rome, where he lived for 25 years, "I would get up in the morning, have my cappuccino, and while I'm having my cappuccino, I might as well sit down and read the paper. While I'm sitting down I might as well watch the girls go by, I could spend whole days outside like that...
...When I went to Rome I became so fascinated with bronze that I stuck with it," he says. "Now that I look back, I think I should have gone up to Carrara and spent more time getting to know stone." A summer at the international sculpture symposium in the basalt quarries of Eugene, Oregon gave him his first opportunity...
...sold some 3 million copies since 1948 and spawned many, lesser Fielding guides; of a heart attack; in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. With help from a small staff and his wife Nancy, he meticulously updated findings that concentrated on Europe's creature comforts, not culture (he dismissed Rome's Colosseum as having "a remarkable permanency"). The hearty Fielding style was sometimes irritating, but his advice about potential surprises helped nervous travelers feel at home abroad. He was lavish with both praise and blame, lauding Greek tavernas and Dutch honesty and censuring rip-off artists like Venetian gondoliers, whom...
Last week John Paul II virtually admitted that the church had made a major mistake. In 1980 the Pope had set up a special commission composed of eight scientists, historians and theologians to review the evidence. He showed his sympathy for Galileo in a speech to a Rome meeting of 200 leading scientists, who were honoring the 350th anniversary of the publication of the Dialogue...