Word: aquarium
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Boxes figure large in his work; and each box, with its lid and compartments and sliding drawers, is a microcosm. At first one is seduced by the greeny blue, aquarium-like interior of Box 17 (Box C). Then the eye discerns the contents, wavering amid their reflections from the walls: a glass goblet filled with a bouquet not of flowers but of vicious glass shards; a morbified pink foot; a small geometrical plastic construction, reclining like a tiny fakir on a bed of nails...
...mimes the bone-wearying troubles of her existence, a Beckettesque journey from nothingness to oblivion. Gloria Foster makes a triumph of this taxing role through her unremittingly somber presence and power. The next two playlets, Players inn and Cop and Blow, are set in a bar, the gaudy aquarium of tropically colorful sharks who prey mercilessly on the vulnerable fish of the ghetto...
...Wild Animals. There is no lack of activities. A favorite pastime is climbing the 88-ft. observation tower to admire the view. To the east is a splendid vista of the traffic-jammed freeway, exhaust smoke billowing into the air, while across the bay is Sea World, an aquarium aswarm with tourists and back-dropped by San Diego's busy Lindbergh International Field. Inside the camp's palisades, the pace is equally lively. Cars roll endlessly along the asphalt alleys while children splash in the tepid water...
...with dear old Erich, the only "celebrity" who had actually made it to the bash, but, beside Erich, no one else seemed to care. Eventually the crowd drifted into the theatre proper, where everyone drifted around in search of seats like so many fish in this great, midnight blue aquarium. All about, little pops and minor explosions resounded as champagne glasses were dropped and trampled underfoot-and this would continue throughout the running of the film...
...killed by passing ships. The shark, after rotting or being eaten as it washes in, may then be mistaken for a sea serpent. This may have been the case with Cecil, the once celebrated sea monster whose remains at last word were being unceremoniously fed to the New England Aquarium's garbage disposal...