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...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...
...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...
Living Torch. At the height of the midday shopping hour, Catherine Seydel, a 22-year-old student, picked out a dress she liked and entered a third-floor booth to try it on. Suddenly she heard a thunderous rumble on the floor above her. When she emerged from the booth, she entered a maelstrom of fear and panic. In rapid succession, flames had erupted in at least three locations around the store. Two of the store's 15 full-time firemen-the building had no sprinklers-tried to douse the flames with hand extinguishers, but retreated in the fast...
...Soulsville -many of them dark-skinned Cambodians or the daughters of French Senegalese soldiers-are less costly and usually less comely than their sisters on white-dominated Tu Do Street near by. The "in" spot in Soulsville is the L. & M. Guest House, a bar-restaurant and record booth run by balding, beer-bellied "Johnny" Hill, 35, a New Orleans Negro and ex-merchant sailor whose menu of "soul food" runs from No. 4 (turnip greens) through No. 8 (barbecued spareribs) to No. 9, "Kansas City Wrinkles," better known as chitlins. In Soulsville, the sustenance is psychological as well. There...