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...works with brutal vigor, painting fierce nudes, expressionistic portraits, or turbulent landscapes done with flailing, cutlasslike strokes of his brush and furnace-bright colors. "Nobody else can do these things," he cries, pointing to the tortured convolutions on a nude drawing. "Who would dare? I am a being with antenna. I receive with my senses." But when the mood is right, he can turn to exquisite watercolor flowers, little "finger exercises" done with a delicate brush and a gardener's calm appreciation...
...does not openly suggest green hair or cat's whiskers, which seem to come naturally to his audience. He. has kept them busy mailing him dirt to "help fill up San Francisco Bay," or sending in empty orange juice cans to be used in building a 60-foot antenna. Twenty-five bottle caps earned a listener an "I Dread Red" card, and a usable joke is repaid with an "I Write for CBS" certificate. The jokes are frequently such morbid items as the jingle about a railroad train hitting a girl named Lucy; "The track was juicy, the juice...
Kodis specializes in microwave diffraction; Storer, in electric networks, wave propagation, and antenna radiation. Bryson comes from the Hughes Aircraft Company, where he is a research physicist...
...Unknown Prisoner, Butler chose something between abstraction and realism: a forbiddingly cold and empty structure, rising like some futuristic television antenna, with three grieving women looking up from beneath. Butler thinks that his symbolism suits a monument far better than any standard, realistic figure. Says he: "You must avoid the reaction, 'Oh, poor chap, he does look thin.' And if I made a statue of a god, it would be a big man or a small man with a big tummy or a flat tummy. So to make an image, I conceive a prisoner who is invisible...
When no hostile airplanes are about, the gun squats quietly waiting, its 75-mm. tube projecting out of a mass of electronic equipment. On top, a small, dish-shaped radar antenna peers around, scanning the hemisphere of sky. It can see 15 miles through clouds or darkness...