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...Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, for the monster lovers. An aquatic version of the Tyrannosaurus Rex makes lunch of everything from a diving bell to one of New York's finest, but the radioactive isotope finally gives him terminal indigestion. One of the more entertaining beasts of the fifties. Channel...
...vitality. In that flattened space, each shape presses up to the eye as firmly as in any Matisse. But the energy remains. The rolling, sinuous line of one great Deccan miniature, Subduing an Enraged Elephant, becomes a short hand for movement; every detail, from the trampling caparisoned beast (whose wicked eye occupies the center of the page) to the Persian curves and rhythms of poppy stems and rocks behind it, writhes with force...
...keystone to an understanding of the universe and man. Take him out and the structure falls into a heap of meaningless pieces. The universe becomes a chance arrangement of atoms, and man becomes an accident, a beast, or a machine...
...packages to needy sheep dogs in Scotland, yet lead the world in the ritual demolition of foxes. For their sins and sensitivities, they deserve this odd, sporadically charming book, which blends dotty episodes-suitable for framing on The Avengers-with a moral message about the beastliness of man to beast and man alike...
...image for this owl-eyed, leathery stump of wrinkled vitality was Proteus: the Odyssey's old man of the sea, whose power was to assume any form -beast, wave or tree-at will. He is the tutelary saint of virtuosos, and Picasso's virtuosity is the one fact of modern art that everybody knows something about. Stories about it begin in his early childhood. It is said that his father, a provincial art teacher in La Coruna, Spain, turned over his own brushes and paints to this alarming offspring, confessing that little Pablo had already surpassed...