His interest in stone sculpture began after he visited Mount Rushmore in the U.S. in 1990.
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And that is also true of Gene Hackman in The Royal Tenenbaums and Jason Schwartzman in Rushmore.
Shlaes, in her lucid, informative, and entertaining way may not fully have succeeded in carving Coolidge onto Rushmore.
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Only the face is now done, and all four heads on Mount Rushmore would fit inside Crazy Horse's head alone.
This is a shrine to one of the Rushmore four and someone who is widely considered one of the top five presidents in U.S. history.
Enter Ziolkowski, a prolific sculptor who had won the prize for sculpture at the 1939 New York World's Fair and had helped Borglum at Rushmore.
Rushmore of big, gruesome trag-edy, there are the Kennedys, and Lizzie Borden and her ax, and the burning witches at Salem, and then there's me.
Chuck White, Cope's former associate, says Cope now runs a convenience store near Mount Rushmore in South Dakota and plans to build an amusement park nearby.
But Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum had big dreams, and they included a mountainside series of granite tableaus that would retell significant events in American history.
As for Banksy's true identity, he could be a homeless guy who gives away all his earnings or he could be a hedge fund manager, Rushmore said.
And then there's "Rocket Science, " another wry, idiosyncratic teen-angst comedy in the indie mold of "Napoleon Dynamite, " "Rushmore" and "The Squid and the Whale" (to name but three).
And just in case we didn't understand how important the CBS and Warner Bros. bosses were, the big screen flashed an image of their faces superimposed over Mount Rushmore.
Think of the Statue of Liberty, a French centenary gift to the young United States in 1886, or of the huge presidential heads carved by Gutzon Borglum on Mount Rushmore.
In some future century, a new Mount Rushmore may be carved, to celebrate the figures of our own era who changed the course of the world as dramatically as any presidents or statesmen.
But Ms. Fisher, who oversees sales at two large developments, the Aldyn and the Rushmore on Riverside Boulevard on the West Side, said public and private investments have reclaimed riverfronts across New York.
There are also nine different elaborate layouts, including the Mount Rushmore corner layout that includes, weirdly, both a miniature replica of the famous monument and the iconic Los Angeles Hollywood sign on the hills below.
Folks in the Mount Rushmore state may be used to seeing presidents' faces etched in granite, but at the beginning of the primary season, most didn't really expect to see much of the Democratic presidential candidates in the flesh.
So if it's true that Banksy's irremovable mask is part of the intrigue drawing the unwitting to his film, since "everyone loves that one of the most famous people in the world doesn't want you to know who he is, " he keeps his integrity by using the attention to drive a larger conversation, said RJ Rushmore, editor of street-art website Vandalog.com.
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