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...contented customers trouped through Walt's Sleeping Beauty Castle and Indian Village last year, he has added The Swiss Family Treehouse, which will lead kiddies through 150,000 handmade leaves and blossoms to the Robinsons' abode 80 feet above the jungle-delightfully furnished with flotsam, jetsam (down to the last doily), plus a fabulous view. And the Oakland, (Calif.) Children's Fairyland has built a Chinese Tree Teahouse offering tea and cookies aloft. Halfway up, an open-mouthed dragon invites the small fry to slide down his throat. "Kids will go nuts when they see it," says...
Landru. The New Wave, which surf-boarded French Moviemaker Claude Chabrol to fame in Le Beau Serge and Les Cousins, is receding, and the beach is littered with reels of cinematic flotsam. A fair sample is this Chabrol film based on the macabre amours of Henri Desire Lan dru, a French antique dealer, who whiled away World War I by having affairs with 283 women, only 273 of whom survived...
...Deane Edwards, president of the 2,000-member Hymn Society of America, argues that "hymnody must be kept abreast of the life of the church.'' But in replacing Victorian flotsam, hymnal makers have cautiously steered away from abrupt modernization, or harmonies more discordant than Brahms's. Instead, they have subtly blended, like the bride's trousseau, something old, something borrowed, something...
Often an Okada painting will suggest a bit of landscape or sky, but sometimes, as in Memories, the images simply float across the canvas like some sort of exquisite flotsam. In the last five years, Okada's palette has grown increasingly muted, and his colors have a weathered look as if time had washed over them again and again, giving them that frail grace that comes only with great age. Nothing is consciously organized; it is Okada's achievement that, in the end, everything still seems in place. This is the chaotic logic of a remotely remembered dream...
Along the eastern shore of Hong Kong last week the waves rolled in with a tragic flotsam: the bodies of 32 refugees from Red China whose overloaded sampan swamped and sank in mirror-calm seas. They were grim evidence of the desperate craving of thousands of Chinese to make their way from the shackled mainland to the glitter of prosperous Hong Kong, whatever the dangers...