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...bizarre as The Far Side could be so popular or that he could be handsomely paid for letting his imagination race wild. "Maybe it's my blue-collar background, but work meant to me that you come home covered with sweat," he says. "Now I just have to brush away the eraser shavings." Larson may dirty his hands soon. He is thinking of turning his backyard into a swamp stocked with salamanders, frogs and koi. And, of course, childhood memories...
American plaque sufferers, all 100 million of you, take heart. In addition to special pastes and floss, there is now Interplak, a battery-operated brush specially engineered to combat the residue of food and bacteria that collects between and under teeth and can eventually lead to gum disease. Unlike the head of an ordinary electric model, the one on Interplak does not move; instead, its ten tiny tufts rotate, each making 1 1/2 turns, then reversing direction. "All the power is in the bristles," says John Trenary, president of Dental Research Corp., the Georgia-based firm that makes the device...
...like mere swatches, but many do retain the mystery of a tour de force: you can see how they are painted but not imagine doing it yourself, even when Louis' own technique is made clear. He eschewed the usual signs of pictorial handwriting, the hooking and squiggling of the brush...
Instead, Louis sought a language of impersonal nuances. He found it in a complicated process of pleating the canvas and flooding it with runnels of diluted color, wash after wash, never a brush mark in sight. He "drew" his shapes by manipulating the effects of gravity on liquid. This certainly eliminated the traces of the expressive hand and gave his surfaces a sweet, frictionless clarity. It was also chancy in the extreme, since it courted the possibility of turning the image into a decorative Rorschach blot. But Louis destroyed much of his own work, editing heavily, and the sense...
...festivities died down and the visions began to fade away, people heading home from their brush with Reality saw that same vaguely bovine pile of rubble hoisted to the top of a large inscribed cylinder in the center of Columbia's quad. The light shining down upon it from the eminence of the Columbia Library gave it the ridiculous appearance of a sacrifice...