Word: booths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wigglings." For all the popularity of his works, Sandburg never fared well in academe. Critic Edmund Wilson observed of the Lincoln biography: "There are moments when one is tempted to feel that the crudest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg." A kind of pseudo-folksy affectation came into some of Sandburg's work. Such criticism never troubled the poet. He was an old-fashioned storyteller, and when an interviewer once mentioned modern poetry, Sandburg snorted: "I say to hell with the new poetry. Sometimes...
...object on display last week at Manhattan's Howard Wise Gallery looked suspiciously like a telephone booth. In fact it was a telephone booth, but of a very special kind, designed by Argentine-born Marta Minujin, 25. The Minuphone is what she calls an "environment." The viewer is invited to step inside and dial a number. The phone really works (its number is 581-4570)-but it also sets off a sequence of experiences that suggest the giddying effect of a short trip...
During a conversation, the transparent walls of the booth may slowly turn green or black as panels of colored water rise inside them. A television screen set in the floor may go on, showing the viewer's face grinning nervously up at him. His voice may be recorded on a tape and played back to him. Sirens may blow and a wind blast up from a screen beneath the telephone; a ghostly echo of his words may resound in the booth, or a screen descend (the idea is to make shadow pictures on it with one's free...
Bell Laboratories engineer, explains that she conceived of it because "people are too alienated. In the booth they can get information about themselves." She would like to have the Minuphone mass-produced and installed in streets and parks. Neither former New York City Parks Commissioner Thomas P. F. Hoving nor his successor, August Heckscher, has so far shown any interest; considering the Parks Department's well-known fondness for hippy-go-lucky happenings, there's always hope...
...First Cry gains its greatest power when it abandons trickery and makes surprisingly caustic side excursions into everyday life in Czechoslovakia: the ugly racial prejudice that surfaces when a black African stays too long in a phone booth and precipitates a fight; the prudish moralism of a policeman who makes Abrhám turn the painting of a nude face down; the arrogance of a movie critic who puts down a "bourgeois Italian film" while ogling a couple of girls in bathing suits. Like many films about the young by the young, The First Cry counts somewhat less...