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Kwakiutl chief once explained. Warriors, squaws and children worked feverishly to amass a sufficiently impressive array of gifts to "put down" a competitor at the next potlatch. Materials were close at hand: spruce and cedar for the elaborate carved totems and 60-man canoes, horn for spoons and charms, root fibers for baskets, and mountain-goat wool for blankets. Today the brightly colored wood carvings still bear rough adze marks, but they rank high as primitive art, ranging in style from naturalism to symbolic abstraction (see Color Pages). As demonstrated in the permanent collection of Oregon's Portland...
...Here they come," murmured the crowd gathered for the annual Assumption Day parade in the tiny French village of Oizon. All eyes turned to the tall man with horn-rimmed glasses and the small, serious-faced woman who walked in the procession behind...
Honk, Plonk. In Casteldaccia, Sicily, police had to rescue Bus Driver Paolo Alliotta, 33, from a mob of townsmen, who stoned him because he blew his horn to clear traffic, awoke them from their sidewalk naps...
...Horn bugles sounded shrilly as the police battered at the main gate, and from the walls archers and men with slingshots attacked them with arrows and stones. Bursting into the courtyard of the math, they found Pagala Baba, dressed in animal skins, sitting on a lotus-shaped throne, waving a piece of red cloth and shouting, "Let blood flow!" Sadhus armed with spears, tridents and heavy two-handed swords forced the police back, leaving one cop and two sadhns dead...
Most present TV drama is pretty bad. But some of it, coping with the unique nature of the medium, is surprisingly good. TV's outstanding writer, Paddy (Marty) Chayefsky, perhaps tooting his own horn a bit, has been led to the questionable judgment that "the best dramatic writing done in our country is being done on television." What cannot be questioned is that TV dramatists have an unparalleled opportunity. For fancy pay they are shaping a new art form, one that lacks the range of the movies and the immediacy of the theater, but has more intimacy than either...