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...least captive audience is the one that attends the concerts of Avant-Garde Composer John Cage. Its members are always free to walk out-and frequently do. For all that, it now appears that Cage and canned music may have been made for each other...
...Cage and Muzak met several months ago when the composer was presented with a thorny problem involving Manhattan's giant new Pan American Building. Sculptor Richard Lippold, renowned for his glittering geometric structures of stainless steel and gold, had been commissioned by the Pan Am Building directors to design a work for the main lobby. Lippold created The Globe, an immense, shining piece three stories high. The directors were delighted, but Lippold...
...only Shakespeare, but also much of English poetry, uncovering layer after layer of ambiguity in works that had been considered perfectly clear. Not even the simplest lines escaped Empson's scrutiny. After reading Lovelace's lines, "Stone walls do not a prison make/ Nor iron bars a cage," Empson debated for a page whether walls did or did not, in fact, make a prison...
...frisky German fiancee with a new record of sorts: he was the first man to swim the English Channel underwater. For 18 hr. 1 min. the former U.S. Army film director submarined along 15 feet beneath the surface, accompanied by a launch and encased in a steel cage that kept the aqualunged swimmer from drifting off course. Said the feisty Floridian, who prepped for his 22-mile swim by traversing the Straits of Messina's Scylla and Charybdis: "I've given up two years of my life. I'm broke...
...president of the company. That evening, while the directors brooded about what action to take, Gilbert paid cash for the last seat aboard a plane for Brazil to join an Elba of fugitive U.S. financiers that already includes multimillion-dollar Swindler Lowell Birrell and Texas Insurance Embezzler Ben-Jack Cage...