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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
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...