David Smith
David Smith
Abstract Expressionist artist best known for his "Cubis" series of stainless-steel, geometric sculptures. He was also known for "Hudson River Landscape" from 1950 and "The Letter" from 1950, both designed to break down the barriers between sculpting and painting.
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth9 March 1906
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Like most people I was surprised, but it hasn't had much of an effect on the market.
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I went to see what was going on. I seen him standing on the reef, waist deep in water. He yelled, help! then he was looking around, then bent over, look in the water, stand back up. I yelled back at him, Ed, help what?
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I think the wise and strategic thing to do is to have a two-track policy,
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Markets are just washing around. I can sympathize with people who don't quite know what to do. The war hasn't really started.
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I wonder how many people have heard of ECMA? I wonder how many people make actions based on ECMA? For that matter, how many people make their decisions based on standards as a whole?
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Open source remains an issue for Microsoft. But I think the biggest threat is from Linux.
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It is a critical eight- to 10-weeks for retailing and for the producers. The retailers and PC hardware manufacturers work on razor-thin margins, so the impact there could be pretty severe.
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I think the Damon Estate would really like to protect the valley, to leave it behind as a legacy for the family.
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I hated that I had to move around. It's hard on everybody. We have a great administration, teachers and students - we just have too many of them (students).
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I can't really look into the future. My family has done a lot of farming on this land. It's what we know.
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For me that's a stairway to heaven. Let's hope it'll be a ladder of hope and inspiration for the future.
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For Sinclair, this announcement will create greater programming opportunities in terms of serving the local viewer, in areas such as sports and locally produced events.
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GM stockpiled a lot of pieces, but that can only last so long,
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He was a very low-key guy, but he really knew a lot of people. He was a legitimately nice person.