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Your quotation from my remarks at the Faculty meeting of December third--given by me to a CRIMSON reporter by telephone--was accurate, but so cryptic that I should like to elaborate somewhat. I was quoted as saying that the main issue of the ROTC dispute is "non-University control of curriculum content and Faculty appointments." (CRIMSON, December 4, 1968, page...
Peter Weiss' play Marat/ Sade was explicitly based on a cryptic plot suggestion by Artaud. As directed by Brook, it proved to be one of the most fecund works in the contemporary theater. The naked backside of Marat has turned the stage into a kind of auxiliary nudist camp. The tormented, writhing chorus of the inmates at Charenton popularized choreographic stage movement in straight plays, and the eerie sounds and gestures have become the language of antiword drama...
...always, Soviet officials were cautious and cryptic when they reported the results of the maneuver. The two ships, they said, had closed to within 650 feet of each other under "automatic control." Then Beregovoy took over and flew even closer. Whether he actually completed docking was not made clear...
Died. Marcel Duchamp, 81, France's Grand Dada of art, whose iconoclastic paintings, "readymades" and other assemblages of the early 1900s became cryptic formulas for the future; in Neuilly, France. "An explosion in a shingle factory!" hooted a critic, and guards had to restrain angry art lovers when Duchamp's disjointed Nude Descending a Staircase went on view at Manhattan's 1913 Armory Show. The gaunt, enigmatic Frenchman proceeded to thumb his nose all the more vigorously at the pantheon of art. He painted a mustache and goatee on a Mona Lisa reproduction, put his own portrait...
...room furnished like a brothel. New York's Paul Thek shows a roomful of chunks of dead flesh sculpted in wax. Italy's Michelangelo Pistoletto presents sarcophagi and chest-high chamber pots. Sweden's Oyvind Fahlstrom is represented by Firing Squad, a plastic snowbank filled with cryptic symbols including L.B.J. on a cross, bugs and butterflies...