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While Moreau's centaurs, sphinxes and Cyclopes are conventional symbols, Redon created monsters seen only by himself. Eyes float like balloons, ears become wings, strange plants sprout out of human heads. Fantasy, said Redon, is "the messenger of the 'unconscious,' of the eminent and mysterious personage . . . who arrives in his own time, according to the moment, the place, even the season." Redon never could explain how the "mysterious personage" worked for him, but he had no real need to. As the show proves once again, seldom has one man's imagination disgorged such an astonishing array...
...swans float...
...Rossen (The Hustler ). But if. by some improbable fiscal catastrophe, all the things he has going for him should come crashing down, if CBS should go bankrupt and his $100,000 a year be cut off. if Hollywood should evaporate, and the $650,000 house in Peekskill were to float away on the little stream it straddles, Jackie Gleason would still have a way to stay solvent. Since the age of 13, he has had something to fall back on. As Paul Newman says at the fadeout of The Hustler: "Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool...
...enough to make a penguin take to the bottle; but Gleason, dieting, munched his Ry-Krisp without benefit of sauce. Although he can, as Susskind says, "put away more Scotch per square hour than any man alive," he rarely drinks on the job. The Gleason legend has much to float on, but he proudly insists that he has never missed a show because of drinking. "I'm a heavy drinker when I drink," Gleason generalizes, "because I can put away a bundle of booze before the lights go out. I like it. Some people like to climb mountains...
...Oilmen's "mud," which is actually a suspension of clay and various chemicals in water, differs in formula depending on whether it is being used to lubricate a drill bit, float rock chips out of the way of the bit, or seal a shaft against blast. To plug a well, "weighted mud" of powdered clay and barium sulfates mixed to the consistency of cake batter is used...