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...blazes on Majorca for ten months of the year. It lights the baked forms with a harsh kind of super-reality. The sallow leaves of a dead cactus writhe upward like a petrified fountain. A palm hangs against the sky like a bursting skyrocket. On the ground, a beetle crawls. Above it, crouches a man - no figment of a dream but a com pact figure with grey thinning hair, a potato nose, and dressed all in sober brown. "Once," he "I was passionate about insects. I painted many of them." In fact, he still does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Father for Today | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...also preparing a poster for the 1972 Olympics, and will meet this week with Japanese representatives to discuss a "laugh room" for the 1970 World's Fair at Osaka, which he envisions as a place where visitors can amuse themselves with Miró ceramic grotesques, a fountain and Miró images on Japanese screens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Father for Today | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...place to meet the maid is derived from the specific references in Lucy in the Sky. They are: "boats," "river," "flowers overhead," "a girl with sun in her eyes," "bridge," "fountain," "rocking horse people," "newspapers and taxis," "train," and "train station." The song itself is a description of meeting a girl. In London there is a footbridge with railroad tracks across the Thames which runs between Charing Cross and Waterloo stations called the Hungerford footbridge. On the Charing Cross side there is a dock. To one side are the Victoria Embankment Gardens, to the other the South Bank Gardens. These...

Author: By Michael Cohen, | Title: Sergeant Pepper Re-visited; Invitation to a Phantom Feast | 7/23/1968 | See Source »

...treating 53 disturbed children-an average-size group-at the Sonia Shankman School. There, restraints are totally absent. Doors are never locked. There are no bars on the windows and virtually no rules. Spankings and scoldings are forbidden. Bedrooms burst with toys and stuffed animals. A soda fountain and an unlocked cupboard brimming with cookies and candy await any child with a nagging thirst and a sweet tooth. Outside in the grassy courtyard, a concrete nude "supermother"-twice life-size-sprawls on the grass. "She takes a lot of abuse," says Bettelheim. "The children stomp on her, curl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psychiatry: Chicago's Dr. Yes | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...under-30 thing, the unromantic sex kick-and will realize that no matter how laughable, these stereotypes, too, reflect a troubled reality. The hippie scene and the identity crisis will no doubt someday assume an air of innocence and cherished worth along with the Front Porch, the Soda Fountain and the Family, which now warm the nostalgia of late-night retrospection. Hollywood, which liked to see itself as Everyman's Scheherazade, has also been his Cassandra-the two roles are inseparable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE LATE SHOW AS HISTORY | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

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