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...last week parodies all the others (see below). Called The Flintstones, the program uses first-rate animated cartoons in place of second-rate actors, and its approach to satire of 20th century life is by way of the Stone Age. Fred and Wilma Flintstone live in a split-level cave. His shaver is a clamshell with a bee in it. Everybody wears skins. When the neighbors collect for an evening of song, Fred picks out the tunes on the Stoneway...
Stumped by the Stones. Even more interesting anthropologically is a cave found on the nearby island of Tortuga by Clement Manigat, a Haitian working for Dr. Barker. It must have been either a ceremonial burial cave or a place for cannibal feasts, possibly both. In it Dr. Barker found human bones that had been broken so that their marrow could be eaten. Other bones were engraved with the faces of gods. There were earthen pots that had perhaps been used for religious or cannibalistic rituals. Dr. Barker is especially stumped by 64 human gall and kidney stones. What this...
...insufficient power to make his presence felt. After fruitless chats with M-G-eminence Benny Thau, he came away saying: "The only thing we have in common is breathing." His current mission, as he sees it. is to light Hollywood's way out of its cultural cave. After A Raisin in the Sun, he has contracted to do three more films for Columbia, is considering doing the life of Evita Peron, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Rich Boy and Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow...
...cooler footnotes to military history when he got a Congressman to agree to give Mort an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. Mort Sahl at West Point seems roughly twice as hard to imagine as Dwight D. Eisenhower (West Point, '15) rapping out bi-nightly monologues in a cave on Sunset Strip...
...eight-ton, segmented concave disk looking somewhat like a huge radar antenna. In the second and fourth Rheingold scenes it was used intact, tilted toward the audience to suggest the rugged slopes of Wotan's mountain home; in other scenes the disk's movable segments represented a cave...