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...group watches a new movie. Also a photographer of considerable skill, Paley displays his albums to guests at home. In the kind of company he usually keeps, he is hardly picture-dropping, but a casual flip of the pages turns up some remarkable names and moments: Anthony Eden, thin as wire, stretched out in a bathing suit at Cap d'Antibes during a sojourn with the Paleys in 1953; Pablo Picasso, trying to look rakish and dashing as he stands to be photographed beside Mrs. Paley...
...down by the railroad tracks, from which emerge teen-age toughs, rapacious plumbers and reefer-smoking baby sitters. It may be attacked from within by moral failure. Felicity is threatened by the second wife, the third mortgage, the fourth child, or the fifth martini. In Proxmire Manor, as in Eden itself, the penalty for sin is banishment-but only to the next town. The angel at the gates may be a suburban bank manager or may appear, as in The Wapshot Scandal, in terrible female form as a community leader who has graduated from love into good works...
...Garden of Eden. In conversation, though, he is usually as clear as spring water-and far more stimulating...
...that house today, where the sunlight would come through just as in the forest. A house with no walls, no doors, no windows-only paths of green ferns and green trees through a rainbow of flowers. And it would never rain. I call this house 'the Garden of Eden...
Fuller visualizes his Garden of Eden as a dome within a dome. "I might use a 114-ft.-diameter dome, inside a 128-footer. I'd plant vines around the base of the outside dome. Because the lines of the dome are geodesic, the vines will follow those lines. You now have the outer dome covered with vines. You then go up between the two domes, winding a translucent plastic around the surface of the inner dome. This will keep the rain out, letting the sun come through your forest of vines. The plastic can be wound in such...