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...made this artificial world, like a slyly smiling magician revealing the secrets of each of his tricks. And this master is such a consummate artist that his revelations are more marvelous than the tricks were. The stage-set world is fascinating because it is visibly cardboard; Casnova and the other characters are intriguing because they are caricatures, marionettes...
Keeping the Peace. Before a neophyte Special can sign up a client, he or she spends 98 hours in police training, shooting cardboard crooks on the pistol range, learning self-defense and boning up on details of police legal procedure. Then, after approval by the chief of police and the police commission, the trainee hires on as an apprentice to a full-fledged Special, often the officer who later sells him the beat. The traditional price is ten times the monthly revenue from the beat...
After the arrest, FBI agents searched Moore's house for six hours and took away two large cardboard boxes. TIME has learned that the contents included classified CIA documents dating from after Moore's retirement. Horrified, intelligence officials immediately began investigating the calamitous possibility that Moore had accomplices within the CIA. The agency had the further problem of whether to declassify the papers so that they could be used as evidence. Said an official: "The CIA must weigh that against the national interest." Indeed, it was not inconceivable that the CIA would decide letting Moore go free would...
...Harper Brown, president of Container Corp. of America (1975 sales: $953 million) will spend several weeks next year in Chicago's Metropolitan Correctional Facility. He was the most important of 47 executives from 22 companies who pleaded no contest to federal charges of fixing prices on folding-cardboard boxes between 1960 and 1974. Last week Federal Judge James Parsons sentenced Brown to 60 days in jail and fined him $35,000; 14 other executives from nine companies drew sentences ranging from five to 45 days. The defendants have three weeks to plead for more lenient treatment. Even if they...
...Rauschenberg was living in the middle of a junk-crammed environment?Manhattan?a place that every week threw away more artifacts than were made in a year in 18th century Paris. An afternoon's stroll could furnish him with a complete "palette" of things to make art with: cardboard cartons, striped police barriers, sea tar, a stuffed bird, a broken umbrella, a shaving mirror, grimy postcards. These relics were sorted out in his studio, glued to surfaces, punctuated with slathers of paint. They emerged as large-scale collages, to which Rauschenberg gave the name combines. At first they were relatively...