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Equal Reality. Thus every detail of the moldings, mullions and floorboards in The Invisible World, 1954, is rendered with scrupulous, not to say stolid exactitude: it is a real room looking on a real sea in (one imagines) some provincial resort on the Belgian coast. But what is that boulder doing there with every pore and crack of its surface emulated in Magritte's slow, gray pigment to remind us of its equal reality? It is intolerable: no metaphor provides an exit, no rational explanation will do, while the very technique of Magritte's drawing and painting keeps...
RICHARD S. JOHNSON Boulder, Colo...
When 14-year-old James H. Gronen of Boulder, Colo., was disqualified two weeks ago for rigging his car with a secret electromagnet to win the 1973 All-American Soap Box Derby, it seemed that he was a boy whose all-American ingenuity was exceeded only by his guile. Now it turns out that his uncle and legal guardian, Robert Lange, founder of a ski-equipment firm called the Lange Co., taught him all he knew. In a letter to the derby director in Boulder, Lange said not only that the magnetic nose "has been around for years" but that...
Some of these charges might be true, said Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter, but he added: "The letter just floors me. It's impossible for me to understand how a man can say, 'I suggested it, I accept the responsibility, the reason I did it was that it was the only way the boy could win.' " Hunter has filed charges against Lange in juvenile court for encouraging a youngster to violate the law. Possible penalty: one year in prison or a $ 1,000 fine or both...
...fell forward the magnet's pull toward it gave his vehicle enough extra starting impetus to win. If that weren't enough, it turns out that Gronen's cousin, Robert Lange Jr., won the Derby last year, and both boys live in the same house hold. Boulder parents whose sons raced in last year's contest are now asking the local prosecutor if their boys were beaten in unfair competition. Said Ohio Summit County Prosecutor Stephen...