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...York mobsville, reported the New York Daily News last week, has solved this nagging problem of the corpus delicti. Solution: the hydraulic press, used in automobile junkyards to reduce dead jalopies to manageable cubes of crushed metal for shipment to steel mills to be melted down. Victims are taken for a ride in the good old-fashioned way. The car is then driven to a cooperating junkyard with the cadaver in its baggage compartment. A crane lifts the car into the steel-lined pit of the hydraulic press, where it takes just 90 seconds to reduce a 1962 Cadillac...
Nikita Khrushchev, no cube he, guffawed at a showing of Pablo Picasso's cubist paintings last year, but the Spanish master's politics are clearly considered more realistic. For his long devotion to Communist causes (a temporary defection over Hungary was forgiven), the Soviet Union awarded an $11,100 Lenin Peace Prize to Picasso, 80, at the very moment that nine Manhattan galleries were honoring him with "An American Tribute...
Laced with food, money and sex, the play gets down to the cube root of reality with such show stoppers as a Parisian policeman being eaten by a green crocodile and five pairs of detached feet singing "My chilblains! My chilblains!" Some of Picasso's less abstract images had to be deleted before the show could get even a Jugendverbot (no kids) rating. Other scenes presented insurmountable production problems and had to be dropped. In one, the audience was supposed to look through five translucent hotel-room doors at the shadows of five apes eating the shadows of dancing...
Perceptive viewers will realize that Sinatra and his cube scout troupe are pioneering in a new art form: the $4,000,000 home movie...
When M.I.T. commissioned him to do an auditorium, he not only rejected the International cube, but also Louis Sullivan's dictum of "form follows function." He put up an auditorium encased in a gleaming white three-cornered shell that could just as well have been an exhibition hall or a supermarket. For the chapel at M.I.T., his inspiration was the grottoes of Capri, which get their magic light from the sun bouncing...