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Instant Poison. "When it is irritated," says the University of Miami's Zoologist Charles E. Lane, "the cell extends the hollow thread, and when the barb has penetrated the skin, it squeezes a tiny drop of poison the length of the tube." The instant a tentacle touches a bather, hundreds of cells go into action in a fraction of a second...
...demonstrate his support for the force, De Gaulle last week donned flowing white robes and, looking more Delphic than ever (or perhaps like a bather), inspected two key nuclear plants, Pierrelatte (which is reportedly several months behind target) and Cadarache. On his 20th provincial tour, he treated audiences to some of the most chauvinistic speeches they have yet heard from De Gaulle. He emphasized repeatedly that France "will remain detached" from the "two great colossi," Russia...
People of Potential. His subject matter was never more complex than that first picture: it was always the human figure swimming, boating, napping, walking. His people were rarely recognizable I faces that are ambiguous"), and they often seemed blurred into their environment. In both Bather and Ocean and Green Canoe, flesh takes on the color of earth; the forest melts into water, and sky blends into sea. To some degree, a figure by Park mute and thickly sculpted, can b seen simply as one more of nature's forms...
...Picasso's lady diver stands poised and suspenseful on a sturdy diving board, a child bather lurks in water up to his chest, and the four remaining figures idle at poolside. like beach bums anywhere. Houston's museumgoers were sufficiently startled to pronounce the whole exhibition "Sweeney's Swimming Hole." but the Houston Chronicle was impressed: "It would seem." the paper said, "that for the first time the challenge of the hall's proportions has been met with sculptures of the perfect heroic dimensions...
...words were no substitute for sales, and Maillol returned to Banyuls, where he hired a few local girls as weavers (he later married one of them), opened a small tapestry factory. But once again, sales were few. One day when he was nearly 40, he carved a small nude, Bather. At first Banyuls' prudery precluded his asking anyone to pose ("The best I succeeded in doing was to persuade my sister-in-law to raise her skirt a little above the knee"), but the small sculpture pleased him. He decided to stick to sculpture from then...