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...Love. On the back lot at Universal City, Love creates a cardboard Paris and fills it with evidence that 1965 is a dull year abroad...
...when the doors opened, the crowd was so thick that people were getting sick. The crush broke the glass on the cashier's box, and the money came in so hand-over-fist that it had to be carted off repeatedly in cardboard boxes...
...says Grooms. "Something you can see as it happens-what people wear and do." Often he makes wooden constructions that are as simple as a man petting a dog. "In itself," he says, "that's a cozy act." Or, he confronts the viewer with Palace in Babylon, a cardboard mock-up of D. W. Griffith's 1916 film epic, Intolerance. As in a spectacular dollhouse, chariots, dancers, spear bearers, and potentates in braided beards are framed betwixt potbellied columns. Atop them trumpet curly-trunked elephants, seated like corpulent Hollywood-style brokers at a banquet. Playful, punning, and still...
...thermals for other reasons. "I love that oldfashioned, hand-knit look," said one New York housewife. "I'm so tired of everything being made slick and plastic and impersonal." Housewives also value its practicality: while wool blankets tend to emerge from the washing machine feeling like congealed cardboard, cotton thermals neither stiffen nor shrink, and they do not carry the static electricity that is the plague of lightweight synthetic brands...
...cardboard set looks silly in the middle of the Lowell House Dining Room, so Schwartz has the stage hands finish building it during the performance. Rather than leave Robert Kettleson (Count) standing agape when Robert Croog (Figars) is singing at him, he has him fall asleep--because of an all-night, we are informal. Thomas Weber (Bartolo) doesn't manage to get dressed until the final scene. And lest anyone suspect him of taking a production of Paisiello's Barber of Seville at all seriously, Schwartz throws in the usual sighs and winks and swaggers...