Even in the face of marble-hearted ingratitude, there is nothing of bitterness in Geoffrey Robinson.Nor is there anything of absolute Oriental luxury about my own flat.
Next to the library, faces of marble, also carved by Ms. Donahue, loom out of clear water, now and then enlivened by a tumbling waterfall that stops and starts as if with a mind of its own.
Also here is "Little French Girl (The First Step III)," from around 1916-18, in which the same sliced-flat plane that startled us as the face of that marble seal becomes a familiar open-mouthed yowl.
Fig. 1 Two orthogonal faces of planar layers of marble.
(The photographer Henry Peach Robinson concurred, writing, in 1896, "It is not, however, retouching in itself that is condemnable, but the bad retouching, at present almost universal, which turns the human face divine into a semblance of marble busts or, still worse, turnips or apple dumplings").
Glazer's first film, Sexy Beast (2000), has a scene that asks us to understand what falling down a hillside feels like for a boulder, and just as Sergio Leone said that he looked through Clint Eastwood's face and saw a block of marble, so Glazer gets something boulder-like – impassive, abstracted – from Johansson.
Then he cast my face and made like a sort of marble bust of the lower half of my face and then reattached the mustache.
The story ends: "The marble face of the Virgin Mary did not respond to Mary Cantwell's anguish.
The translucent marble face of No. 6, meanwhile — designed, like its sister buildings, by Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert — is so immaculately preserved that it looks like it might have been completed sometime in the middle of last week.
On one side rises a face of sheer white-gray marble, which poetically invokes the site's resilient slurry wall, the foundation of the original World Trade Center site that survived the towers' collapse.
He's done it again at the Ingleby gallery down the road, this time taking the face out of a marble bust of a woman who wears a cross round her neck and is got up like Mary Queen of Scots.
