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...Children, especially, delighted in watching Len Lye's kinetic Flip and 2 Twisters, stood entranced as three giant loops of steel jumped and jiggled for 15 minutes at a time. Adults, too, joined in the good-humored spoofs of Claes Oldenburg's gigantic, canvas-covered Ice Cream Cone and Falling Shoestring Potatoes, and his plaster Pecan Pie. They poked their fingers into the spongelike walls of Harold Paris' Pantomina llluma, a "feelies" room containing $10,000 worth of molded, twisted and flat rubber and polyurethane, tensor lights and stainless steel. Grandmothers cheerfully took off their shoes...
...takes the worry out of being close." The implication was that if viewers drained their sinus cavities, mopped their floors and swabbed their armpits with the Beautifuls' products, then they too would somehow be Beautifuls. Ugly notion, says John O'Toole of Foote, Cone & fielding: "The younger generation we have today does not respond to the unreal, the phony. This generation has grown up with advertising, seen it all their lives and has developed an ennui with all the beautiful faces thrown at them." Adds Adman Hooper White, of the Leo Burnett Agency: "Today's TV commercials...
...result, lose their chance of motherhood. He cites the case of a woman in her early 20s, soon to be married. The Pap smear taken at a premarital examination discloses some suspicious cells. Since their source is not precisely pinpointed, standard practice would demand removal of sizable cone-shaped sections of tissue from the cervix and perhaps its entire lip, with the danger of forming scar tissue that could close off the uterus and leave the woman infertile...
Three girls cross the street as the walk sign ticks don't-walk. Closer, closer, arm in arm, into Brigham's. More light and an ice cream cone. Ha, voices like high woodwinds. Ha. Oh for the directness of rape...
...reached an altitude of 100 miles and a speed of 18,000 m.p.h. off the West Coast of the U.S. last week, an Atlas rocket opened its clamshell nose cone and ejected a 7-ft. object that resembled a flatiron-shaped speedboat. The strange craft was the Air Force SV-5D, an experimental forerunner of a larger, manned "lifting body" that scientists believe will be equally at home in space and in the atmosphere...