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...place is full of jaunty poltergeists. Whenever the phone rings, the TV set changes channels. There are only two books in sight: Franny and Zooey and How to Achieve and Maintain Complete Sexual Happiness in Marriage. Two dozen gardenias are delivered to the apartment each week. They float in an urn in the kitchen, a salad bowl in the dining room, a champagne glass in the bathroom, and a wooden bucket beside her bed. "A gardenia is like a free spirit," she says. "Its fragrance cannot be captured. It's like it doesn't want to be tied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: The Girl | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...Their dog is called Mr. Bonnard.) Behind her seemingly bland suburban life, she is passionately preoccupied with the conflict between appearance and reality. Her bizarrely clad and contorted figures, divided fore and aft in space, are rounded with confusing contours, so that they float between the flat surface of the canvas and its artfully contrived depths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Salute to the Singular | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...parts are also noticeably bad; Richard Backus races through the brief prologue at breakneck speed and Jeremiah Tower seems to feel that Mycetes must be made monotonous in order to show that he is weak. But the lines become so repetitious that the characters for the most part float by unnoticed...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Tamburlaine | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

Blowing Whale. The heavy lower point, Adams explains, will be attached in such a way that the pressure or temperature at a predetermined depth will release it. Freed from this ballast, the needle will be lighter than molten rock, and it will float instead of sinking. At last it will surface like a blowing whale, bringing with it samples of deep-down lava that have forced their way into depressions in its shell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geophysics: How to Break the Crust and Come Back Again | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...Long Island Sound and a chain of tidal flats that swarm with migratory birds in spring and fall. In a colorful 1959 se quence, Frasconi shows the crisp, yel low marshland laced with long black lines of birds that seem to pulsate on the paper. Denuded trees float above the steel-blue water, which itself ripples with the grain of the wood. His Homage to Francisco Sabater, honoring the anti-Franco bandit slain in 1960, shows the same respect for what wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wizard of the Woodcut | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

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