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Ensor is, of course, better known for his paintings. His great oil, The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889, painted in 1888, measured 8½ ft. by 14 ft., but he explored the same theme in etchings the size of a shirt cardboard. During his life, Ensor scratched out 133 etchings and drypoints whose quality and diversity rate the Flemish homebody an inglenook in the hall of fame of his great predecessors, Diirer, Rembrandt...
...Every Elbow. If the Russians were in evidence before, their presence overwhelms today. Awaiting take-off of their TU-114 at José Marti Airport in Havana, 50 flaxen-haired Soviet technicians clutch cardboard boxes of rum still stenciled with the anachronistic legend: "Let's go to Cuba, the inviting island next door." Soviet-piloted MIG-21s scorch over the countryside near the airbase at San Antonio de los Baños; Soviet freighters dot Havana harbor, new arrivals unloading daily...
...fairly good rule of thumb to avoid books that come in cardboard slipcases, just as a practiced reader automatically avoids the memoirs of actresses, novels described by their publishers as heartwarming, and books given prepublication endorsements by Clifton Fadiman. The rule is not absolute, but more often than not the contents of a slipcase either have calcified into the classic condition or are so fragile that they need an especially strong container to keep them from crumbling. Most of Janet Frame's stories, sketches and fables in these two prettily boxed booklets fit the second case...
Even greater protection is possible with a simple pin-hole camera made from two pieces of white cardboard. Light falls through a small hole in one and is focused on the other, where it can be viewed without looking directly...
...thicknesses of photographic film, fully exposed in daylight and overdeveloped, are needed to make a safe filter. The wiser witness will view the eclipse indirectly, with his back to the sun. This can be done by punching a hole with a pin or sharp pencil in a sheet of cardboard (which serves as a primitive camera) and observing the moon's progress on another sheet of white card a few feet away. The Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness recommends a sunscope built from a large cardboard box with a pinhole at one end, a paper reflector inside...