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...sort of group triumph: their stuff was even drearier than that of the Easterners. It might be labeled pop pop. The six: MELVIN RAMOS, 28, holder of an M.A. in art history from Sacramento State College, paints straightforward portraits of comic-book heroes and heroines. He professes a distinct liking for banality. "I'm a product of the affluent society," he says. "I just bought a secondhand color television set." If pop art lasts much longer, he will doubtless be able to afford a brand-new color set, with remote control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pop Pop | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

...under a quarter moon. Then, last May, Gordon Cooper took a special camera aloft with him and photographed the airglow as he passed over Australia on his 16th orbit. With color film twice as fast as anything available commercially, he shot a sharply defined green band 16 miles thick, distinct from the blue-white earth some 65 miles below. "It must have been a tremendous experience, seeing this wedding ring sticking up all around," says Physicist Edward P. Ney, who prepared the experiment along with two University of Minnesota colleagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Exploration: Above the Green Veil | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

Robert Lanchester attains no minor milestone. In Little Me Sid Caesar created a six distinct comic roles. Lanchester goes one step further--he creates six indistinct ones. On several occasions, though, he is very funny to watch as he combines verbal and visual dexterity. He makes the Shakespearian buffoon, Tedious, into a physically contorted Elizabethan-pretzel...

Author: By Alan JAY Mason, | Title: 'No Apologies' Final Ex Production | 8/21/1963 | See Source »

...addition to legal suits it is considered a distinct possibility that the NAACP will stage a massive demonstration in front of the School Committee offices in support of its position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: School Meeting Ends In Walkout; NAACP Threatens Suit, March | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

Phil Campagne and John Stephenson, as the sheriff and constable respectively, opened the show on such a flat note that for a moment it seemed any decent high school cast would be a distinct improvement. Douglas Connor, the attorney who twists the law irregardless of justice, compounded the mediocrity...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Strindberg's 'Link': A Bitter Bond | 8/6/1963 | See Source »

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