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...Blind Man and Rongwrong. There was an ear-splitting kettledrum music to which devotees shrieked verses in gibberish; they built powerfully useless machines, wrote ridiculous "chemical" and "static" poems. Their art was a lunatic satire on all advance-guard art: "modern" pictures of women with matchstick faces, cut-out heads filled with grinding gears and cogs. And when they held an exhibition, they were likely to walk around with white gloves but without ties, meow like cats, carefully count the pearls of visiting dowagers, and invite the boys from the bar next door in for a fight...
Collages did not last as long as ordinary painted pictures, and their very impermanence was bound to appeal to George Grosz and other German Dadaists (who pretended to despise art) of post-World War I. One Grosz number: a brutish-looking portrait with a cut-out of a mechanical pump where the heart should be. Max Ernst (who has since gravitated logically to surrealism) attached a lady's legs to a bit of lace, pasted both on a cloudy sky and called his faintly sinister porridge Above the Clouds Walks the Midnight...
...make planning easy, Home Planners put out a $1.50 book containing 26 house designs, chiefly moderately priced one-story, ranch-type; for another $5 it sold complete blueprints. But Robinson's bright idea was to sell also, for $1.50, a colored cut-out cardboard model of the house in scale. Easily put together, the model showed the prospective builder just how the whole house would look before he started building. It even contained cardboard pieces scaled to the size of furniture...
...Boston, Forever Amber went on trial for obscenity under a new law which permits prosecution of a book rather than a bookseller. Most interesting exhibit: a realistic, life-size photographic cut-out of sexy Authoress Kathleen Winsor. Though the prosecutor thundered, the judge, a man of 65, averred: "The book acts like a soporific rather than an aphrodisiac. While conducive to sleep it is not conducive to a desire to sleep with a member of the opposite sex." His verdict: Not guilty...
...German bitterness grew really ear nest over "a particularly detestable, low-down British weapon": the "self-igniting leaf." This was described as a three-inch cardboard or celluloid card with a cut-out centre, into which was pasted a flat core of guncotton and phosphorus. When dropped by night, the cards were slightly damp. When they dried out-it might take ten minutes or ten years, depending on where they fell-the reaction of oxygen on phosphorus made them burst into flame. This weapon, railed the Germans, was "obviously directed against the German youth, the German harvest. . . ." Officials complained that...