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Doug Moe: Proud sculptor just loves the buzz

IT WAS a few minutes before 4 p.m. Thursday, and the man of the moment, sculptor Donald Lipski, was pacing in front of his controversial creation at the corner of Breese Terrace and Regent Street outside Camp Randall Stadium.

….At the late-afternoon ceremony celebrating the completion of “Nail’s Tales,” the 48-foot, $200,000 obelisk that has left many observers shaking their heads, Lipski was like a proud parent celebrating a birth. He did everything but pass out cigars.