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Junk Show. While curators from Aachen to Zweibrücken eagerly await the disposition of the finest work, at least one government-endowed research foundation in Germany would like to get its hands on the junk. Munich's Institute for Contemporary History is attempting a scientific analysis of Nazism, and one of its pet ideas is a public exhibit of what Hitler liked. The last time art was displayed in Germany for such unartistic reasons was the infamous 1938 degenerate art show-composed of what Hitler did not like...
...thousands of years, repair surgery was limited to such obvious and available materials as wood, bone and ivory-which the body is usually quick to reject. Then doctors turned to refined metals. But the current mush rooming of alloplasty had to await the proliferation of synthetic plastics. Most of the materials now favored are the polymers (basically familiar molecules in unfamiliar, complex arrangements), such as nylon, Dacron and Plexiglas. But even more widely useful are the silicones,* which may be solid or as gooey as engine...
...Britain's poet laureate (official salary: $272 per annum) allowed in a tense shout: "I am still writing, and I hope to write better some day. At 86, some of the cobwebs have been knocked away, and the scene becomes grander. Much more majestic are those fables that await retelling...
...until now no book has summed it up, no book that has been written tells about John Kennedy. One can await the volumes by Professor Schlesinger and Mr. Sorenson. There will doubtless be others. But until then we will have to make do with other things...
...court bench. Others came with baby bottles and box lunches. Taken before the judge in relays of five, the parents were charged with loitering on school premises, a form of disorderly conduct punishable by up to 60 days in jail. Then they were released in their own custody to await trial next month...