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...silver foil and discarded objects is the work of a schizophrenic, perhaps, someone who saw and worked in another universe certainly. Hampton was serious, but we don't have to be. A crown with a tinfoil-covered lightbulb sprouting our of it like a parody of an old cartoon, ("I've got it!") is one of the most ridiculous objets d'art of this or the other world...
ALONGSIDE XEROX COPIES of three much reworked manuscripts, James's Portrait of a Lady, Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, and two poems by E.E. Cummings, the new Writing Center in Hilles Library displays a Doonesbury cartoon on its bulletin board. In the cartoon Zonker Harris is banging away at his typewriter. "Man, have I got a lot of papers due," he says to B.D., who is watching over his shoulder. "Most problems, like answers, have finite resolutions," Zonker writes. "The basis for these resolutions contains many of the ambiguities which condition man daily struggles with. Accordingly, most problematic solutions...
...smoking drive. It has urged more research into antismoking pills, wants warnings inserted into cigarette packs about the hazards of smoking, and has suggested the creation of a state agency to propagandize against smoking. The Litgaz in fact is already doing some effective propagandizing of its own: one cartoon recently published in its pages shows a man and woman trying to kiss, only to be blocked by their long cigarettes. Another depicts a sickly looking man holding to his head a pack of cigarettes in the shape...
...asked to name his profession, Rowland Emett would probably answer "Fantasticator." No other term could remotely convey the diverse genius of the perky, pink-cheeked Englishman whose pixilations, in cartoon, watercolor and clanking 3-D reality, range from the celebrated Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway to the demented thingamabobs that made the 1968 movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang a minuscule classic. It is no wonder that he has been dubbed by admiring Americans the British Rube Goldberg. But that, with all due deference to the late Rube (who was a great admirer of Emett), is to compare Edward Lear...
...flowers. What makes the Sussex Merlin all the more remarkable is that he can use a welding torch and glue. With tin, antique doorknobs, hip baths, umbrellas, bicycle parts, lamp shades, stained glass, saucepan lids, Victrola horns, ear trumpets, soup strainers, miles of wicker and wiring, he transforms cartoon fantasies into whispering, whistling, wheezing, whirring, gothic-kinetic machines that work, but mostly play. And mock...