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...exhibits at the fair, it shows how pre-Columbian goldsmiths of America beat, hammered and cast little miracles of design. For motifs they used the swamp and sea creatures that they knew best-the frog, snake, shark, turtle, crab and crocodile. These ancient masters also made the malleable metal wriggle with curvilinear life: 2-in.-thick ear plugs, nose pendants, golden mustachios that covered the mouth. They drank from gold goblets and spangled themselves with baubles that were hinged to bounce in the light. They abstracted condors into broadtailed triangles and sought symmetry in two-headed animals...
...picking coins out of the fountains. But Writer John McPhee spent ten days there and only part of the nights and he ate-as the editorial business manager will discover-without dipping a finger in a fountain. In fact, he ate his way through such delights as soft-shelled crab on a bun, walnut fried Boston sole, partridge with grapes of Almeria, banana dogs, smoked eel of the river Tagus, Kambing Masak Bugis and A jam Panggang-and one ham on rye to go. Followed, on occasion, by antacid tablets...
...they dance in Guinea, buy a fez from Morocco, eat a soft-shell Maryland crab. While the Malaysians aren't looking, you can run Malaysian tin ore through your fingers. You can eat walleyed pike from Minnesota and see a chef from India baking bread in mud pots. In the calm oasis of the Irish pavilion, you can drink coffee primed with Irish whisky and listen on earphones to actors like Micheal MacLiammoir and Siobhan McKenna reading Yeats, Swift or Synge. In the Indonesian pavilion, you can look over the Indonesian girls that were personally selected by President Sukarno...
Ipousteguy sculpts with a sure sense of balance and a sharp eye for basic paradoxes and brutal ironies, e.g., The Crab and the Bird which captures in one movement the rapport between crawling and flying. Fourteen black bronzes. Through April...
...SOMETHING WILD"-Stone, 48 East 86th. Three avant-gardians, each doing what he knows best. Apple Grower George Wardlaw sculpts and paints apples-green, delicious, crab, rotten and otherwise; ex-Mink Farmer Joseph Kurhajec makes fetishes of ferocity from blowtorched sheepskin, muskrat pelts, ram horns and chicken feathers; Rugmaker Dorothy Grebenak hand-weaves tapestries of U.S. Treasury bills, Con Edison manhole covers, even a nubby facsimile of a Gordon's gin label. Through...