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...brown. Others are shrill compositions of hard whites and yellows, oranges and blues, set against a frame of green that is liberally sprinkled with scarlet and purple dots. In one, the colors blend into something resembling mother-of-pearl; another was obviously begun by rubbing together two pieces of cardboard wet with color to make what Strindberg called "automatic painting." The show is about to take the grand tour: when it closes in Ulm, it will move to the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and finally the British Museum...
Around small cardboard signs reading "Right Wing," "Left Wing" and "Tail," a group of purposeful experts are arranging what is left of the American Airlines' Boeing 707 that crashed on take-off into Jamaica Bay, killing all 95 aboard (TIME. March...
...Soviet student is ready for a systematic study of Russian literature, plus separate courses in history, geography and foreign languages. By contrast, the U.S. fourth-grader is still at work on a "basal" reader with a vocabulary of fewer than 1,800 words, "a middle-class idealization" of cardboard mommies and daddies in "a hypothetical and sterile community"-trirling stories written by obscure women with three names...
Bourgeois Animal. Wilson's Adrift in Soho is about Harry, who felt like "a trapped animal" in his Midlands town. So he came to London with about ?25, a cardboard suitcase and a haversack full of books to practice his trade of being a poet and philosopher. Almost immediately he meets his mate, a New Zealander named Doreen, and his mentor, a sometime actor named Charles Compton Street. Charles introduces him to the fine art of living without working-cadging food and drink, stealing an occasional rare book, sleeping on suburban trains or on somebody's floor. Charles...
...PACKAGING: While U.S. Steel's new. lighter tin plate put a dent in the aluminum can market, the aluminum men came back with aluminum labels for bottles, aluminum tops for soapboxes, and aluminum-coated cardboard containers for bottles (that are said to keep beer cold twice as long...