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...construction of burial mounds and complexes of standing stones. Some 500 years before Stonehenge, predecessors of the Celts near Locmariaquer in Brittany may have used the 385-ton stone Grand Menhir, now toppled and broken, for astronomical observations. The neatly aligned rows of standing stones at nearby Carnac may have served a similar purpose. Civil engineering existed around this time as well: researchers have found remnants of 5,000-year-old wooden trackways, used as roads through the marshes of southwestern England...
...earlier, Carson had asked his writers to come up with a new bit for the hoary character, a fake psychic, who dubs himself the "master of mentalism." It's just one of several classic Carson routines that are being trotted out for a final appearance as his departure nears. Carnac the Magnificent, the turbaned answer-and-question man, showed up a few weeks ago for the last time. (Carson himself wrote more than half the gags.) Art Fern will introduce his final Tea Time movie in a bit scheduled for this week. There may even be a comeback for lovable...
...assignment may be an arduous one for Carson, who has not written in years, and is famous for his three-day workweek and lengthy vacations. To ease the load, the show will do without the familiar skits. So while Johnny is back, Carnac the Magnificent may be out for the duration...
...recover some of its archaic roots. Moore's King and Queen, 1952-53, gazing out over the stony ocean of Scottish moors, are the descendants not of 18th century garden sculpture but of something older, more vital and mysterious: the chthonic spirit of place embodied in the dolmens of Carnac or Stonehenge...
...certain illustrious forebears: Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Bob Hope-"and Oliver Hardy-that burn, that long look into the lens." Surely Jonathan Winters was the inspiration for such Carson characters as the garrulous Aunt Blabby, the right-wing dimwit Floyd R. Turbo, even the huckstering greaseball Art Fern. Carnac the Magnificent is Steve Allen's Answer Man in swami's drag, and the Mighty Carson Art Players are Fred Allen's Mighty Allen Art Players with unreliable props. Carson's borrowings are leavened with respect and an originality that will run a thematic risk-"take left...