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...Porter's acceptable story (he contributes two) he calls "The Devil Will Spank" which despite a lurid obsession with the imperfections in children's teeth and hair has its charming moments. I wish he would not pause so long to build up great tortuous heaps of detail before allowing his children to move; the story emerges as a photograph of huge, static, concrete set-pieces...
...CHIEF OF PROTOCOL, welcoming Somali's Prime Minister Abdirascid Ali Scermarche, who arrived on a visit and brought a few unusual gifts-an ostrich-egg lamp, a foot-high, bottom-weighted "Devil Doll'' that teeters but never falls over, a monkey-fur rug, and a brass gong mounted between two elephant tusks...
...hammered bronze stand talking to each other, their arms poised in a way so questioning that one can almost hear their dialogue: "Where do we go from here?'' "How the devil should I know?" In another part of the room, a marvelously attenuated adolescent boy clutches a four-leaf clover and gazes imploringly at the ceiling; he is called The Wish. The pieces are both funny and sad, a bit crude and yet full of vitality. On view at Manhattan's Graham Gallery, they are the work of the Czech-born sculptor Ludvik Durchanek: a rough-hewn...
...Vizier's Elephant and Devil's Yard, by Ivo Andric. In four short novels a Yugoslav Nobel prizewinner treats with some new and old varieties of human tyranny...
Naked City (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).*Guest Stars Richard Basehart and Robert Walker Jr. turn a sidewalk prank into tragedy in "Dust Devil on a Quiet Street...