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...full color the recondite fauna of several seldom-visited islands-the Galápagos, the Falklands and Guadalupe. Best shots: a hideous six-foot iguana leaps into the sea and instantly seems transmogrified into a silly wriggling pollywog in a milk bottle; an elephant seal, a 20-ft. blob of blubber, lies snoring into its floppy, built-in nosebag, looking from the neck up like none other than W. C. Fields; a 500-lb. Galápagos tortoise, that roughly resembles an old grey washtub upside down, changes abruptly, as a bright red bird lights on its back, to something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: ... And Selected Shorts | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...onesided, but his attitude is clear. More alarmed than gratified by the proliferation of galleries and painters in the U.S., he once acidly, if jokingly, suggested that all painters stop work for a while and get other jobs-as domestic servants, for instance. On another occasion he reproduced a blob of pigment in the Times, then proceeded to subject it to the kind of analysis that an avant-garde critic might use about a genuine abstraction: "The huge central element, generally globular in shape, is the very apotheosis of the inertness of matter." It was an amusing satire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: He Says It's Spinach | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...stared at the soft glow of a radarscope. In the center, a ragged splash of light reflected the "sea return," the radar echo bouncing back from the vicious waves of the gale-roiled Atlantic. Beyond the sea return-twelve miles away by the scale of the scope-a smaller blob of light pinpointed the position where Texas Tower 4,* a man-made Air Force radar island, was riding the storm. Suddenly, silently, the tower echo disappeared. Beyond the sea return there was only the icy Atlantic night. The carrier Wasp was racing into position, a couple of Coast Guard cutters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Death on Old Shaky | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

...Argentina, the government felt called upon to deny that it was breaking with Cuba-a gesture that did not conceal the anger of President Arturo Frondizi (once called a "viscous blob of human excrescences" by Cuban Foreign Minister Roa) over a new Castro-Communist campaign in Argentina to raise "10,000 volunteers to fight to defend Cuba." Across the Rio Plata in Uruguay, beset by labor troubles and riots. President Benito Nardone pointed up the undercover organizing work of Castro's ambassador by calling openly for a break with Castro. Colombia and Bolivia have quietly sent home the ambassadors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: The Breaking Point | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

Doctors dread an embolus (from the Greek for a stopper), whether it be a blood clot, a blob of fat, or a bubble of air. An embolus can travel through an artery until it is caught at a narrow point, then shut off circulation to the tissues beyond. But last week two Georgetown University neurosurgeons reported that they had gone to a lot of trouble to make ultramodern emboli in the form of plastic pellets, and had used them to correct a brain defect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plastic in the Brain | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

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