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...neat structure of "The Order of Things" is built from items strewn inside a bay. In this surrealistic fantasy, where the images are as barren as those on a Dali canvas, Sagan plays liquids and sybillants, especially, against each other as she describes old women "down by red rock steps" who "sit in the sea up to their breasts." It is rare for her to take advantage of vowels and consonants this way--this might even be the only case where she uses such a technique...
...succession of Diego Velásquez's court portraits. This one was painted late in the monarch's life, around 1653. The King's features-the bulbed Habsburg lip, the forehead's waxy promontory, the thick ball of a chin, the upswept mustache that Salvador Dali would appropriate and vulgarize-must have been more familiar to Velásquez than the map of Spain itself (see color overleaf...
...Burne-Jones and Millais. The Christmas Book is a rich survey of Yuletide art from ancient Collier's magazine covers to the naive masterworks of Grandma Moses. Only one caveat: four of these five bargains would grace any child's library. Temptation, however, offers explicit pictures like Dali's Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by Her Own Chastity. The book must carry an unseasonal rating...
...artistic styles--they all glut the air and remove these cartoons into some sort of exalted humorless nether-region. The Saturday Evening Post had lousy cartoons (e.g. Hazel); drawings and captions balance each other out just fine; and no, I don't think Charles Addams is indebted to Salvador Dali...
Kunstler seemed to have a harder task defending Hill. Dali-mustachioed Prosecutor Aidala produced five witnesses who supposedly saw Hill striking Quinn with a wooden object. Kunstler replied that four of the five had been offered leniency if they testified against Hill. Not so, claimed Aidala. "The evidence," he said, "is that there were no promises made to the witnesses...