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...rooms the researchers discovered a slightly damaged 10-in. statue of a fertility goddess lying face down near some primitive sculptor's tools. Carved from soft stone and rich in detail, the statuette is long and slender, in contrast to the crude neolithic sculpture thought to be typical of this early period. "In five years," says Peabody Anthropologist C. C. Lemberg-Karlovsky, "this piece will be lectured in all coffee-table art books as a prize example of primitive sculpture...
Sedulous Brainwashing. Drama may reach for the stars, but it must be rooted in the soil of "the rough theater." This is the popular drama of crude jests, false noses, stuffed bellies and fear in a faceful of flour. It is vulgar, grotesque and obscene, and it ranges from Punch and Judy to Bertolt Brecht, who argued that the theater should be like a prize ring...
...Crude Circus. With the exception of Leaving the Yellow House, published in Esquire in 1957, the early stories are staged with willing if befuddled ac- tors who are too deeply involved with workaday concerns to do much lofty abstracting. In The Old System (1967) and Mosby's Memoirs (1968), the protagonists are aging rationalists of considerable accomplishment. Both are shown trying to define the meaning of their own lives by musing about the weaknesses of people they have known...
...hospital room. She believed that he had cheated her many years before. The preposterousness of the situation dissolves when brother and sister are reconciled in a scene that conveys forcefully the author's tragicomic sense of life. Even Dr. Braun, the scientist, is "bitterly moved" by the "crude circus of feeling"-but not so moved that it prevents him from trying to explain human emotions in molecular and cosmic metaphors...
...independents?a group that soon came to be known as the Argonauts?Onassis practiced a clever technique of self-financing. Because the oil companies were unwilling to tie up cash reserves in new hulls, he only asked them for long-term (seven years or more) charters to haul their crude. Armed with the charters, he made firm contracts with shipbuilders, banks and insurance concerns, pointing out that the new tankers, with life spans of up to 25 years, would earn back their cost in roughly a third of their working life...