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...into craters reeking of sulfur smoke, standing on the edges of steaming fissures and dodging red rivers of molten lava. Now they celebrate those exotic outlets for earth's potent forces in the most beautiful-and frightening-book on volcanoes ever assembled. Here, for example, is the black cone of Surtsey rising from the sea off Iceland in 1963, the Indonesian volcano Batur shooting lava bombs skyward in 1971, Italy's Stromboli still flaring like a Roman candle, and the lava lake of Zaire's Rugarama glowing as luridly as the lower pits of hell. As Absurdist...
...Last Picture Show, Friday and Saturday, 8 and 10 p.m., in Cone night. D the next...
...CITY of indivisible existence. Most cities differ from one another in the form and order of their buildings, but "as soon as the stranger arrives at the unknown city and his eye penetrates the pine cone of pagodas and garrets and haymows ... he immediately distinguishes which are the princes' palaces, the high priests' temples, the tavern, the prison, the slum...
...Rosamund Purcell, also a graduate of B.U., are mysterious and taught with background. Purcell works almost exclusively with Polaroid Land materials. She is the most experimental of the four artists exhibited, using superimposed images, double exposures and unusual lighting--a woman clad in leotard and tight lying in a cone of light on a wooden floor is transformed into an unconscious astronaut hurtling through black space...
...beer cans in his basement, including a Monarch that his great-grandmother kept for decades in a drawer with her lace underwear. Morrie McPherson, of Sycamore, Ill., lucked into one of the biggest beer-can bonanzas in B.C.C.A. history: 60 cases of 25-year-old Goetz Country Club cone-top cans-all unopened-that had been lying in the musty basement of an old bar. Robert Myers of Oakland, Calif, traveled all the way across the continent to Owl's Head, N.Y., after hearing of a lode in the attic of an abandoned railroad station; sure enough, he uncovered...