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Series of Horrors. Often the youthful smugglers are suckers from the start. In Lebanon, tourist guides around Baalbek's famous Roman ruins sidle up to adventurous-looking American kids and sell them not only cheap hash but identical cheap cardboard tourist suitcases to carry it in. Airport customs officials are so familiar with the suitcases that they almost yawn as they arrest the tourists who show up with them...
...Francisco, who mounts up to seven negative and positive transparencies one behind the other in a box, then lights them from behind to create eerie deep spaces. Vancouver's 25-year-old Michael DeCourcy prints high-contrast images of waves, pebbles and flying birds on the sides of cardboard boxes, then has them stacked up by workmen in whatever arrangement they choose. Vacuum molding enables Californians Robert Brown and James Pennuto to transform aerial photographs of rugged terrain into three-dimensional centour maps. The simplest work of all is Jerry McMillan's Torn Bag: a paper bag ripped...
...twinge of bitterness behind the witty satire. King's most recent work, titled Farmers and currently displayed at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Manhattan, is not comic at all, but starkly tragic. It consists of a dozen or so limp, lifeless figures fashioned from corrugated cardboard. King ran up a pair of black cotton pajamas for each, made conical hats from brown wrapping paper, and tossed them all in a casual heap on the floor. "I wanted to make a point about Viet Nam," he says, "and this was something I could...
Start with the Harvard Garden Grill which is right on the Square. Perhaps its proximity to the redoubtable and elegant Waldorf Cafeteria, where each entering customer is mechanically served with a numbered cardboard canape, has thrown it in a dimmer light than it deserves. The Grill, which is no Charley's Kitchen and won't always serve minors, has four things which make it, and all respectable American bars, substantial. It has a television above the bar. It has a lot of those cardboard placards above the mirror above the bar to which are stapled things like Bromo, Cheez...
Characters turn into cardboard, plots funny in the telling become imbecile in the illustration. The secret of such lunatic comedy, as Stanley Kubrick understood so well in Dr. Strangelove, is to hold things down, to enhance the weirdness by emphasizing the basic realism of the situation. Two new movie adaptations practically stumble over themselves rushing in the opposite direction, with results that almost humiliate their original sources...