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Pyramids in the Flatness. As with the rural regions of Texas, each major Texas city has a character of its own, alike only in that the skyline of each seems to loom as an irregular pyramid in a desert of flatness. Houston is a lightly governed city that has outstripped all of its rivals partly because of its strategic location, partly because its people are free, unselfconscious, build for the pure pleasure of doing big things. Dallas, honestly but rigidly ruled by a business oligarchy, has been fretting about its image since long before Nov. 22. It quarrels with nearby...
...musical Jennie was the biggest money loser, since its nut was $550,000 and it ran only ten weeks. The best play to fall was Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal (it lost $40,000). Other foldees: Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy ($90,000 down), The Irregular Verb to Love ($35,000), Love and Kisses ($100,000), Double Dublin ($45,000). This crop was quickly followed by Tennessee Williams' new version of The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More...
Breathing Brushstroke. Bissier's art is in a sense torn literally off the fabric of the world. Working from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. in his studio on the Swiss end of Lake Maggiore, he prepares thready-edged linen canvas or irregular pieces of batiste shirting. Over these loose, unframed scraps, he lays on slick sizing so that subsequent brushstrokes in oil tempera seem to float above the surface. He paints where the bristles of his soft, often home-made brushes lead him. He says he is "listening to the brush-I want my colors to breathe...
...walls or pillars obscure the vast interior. The audience pitches onto the orchestra from slanting levels like irregular alpine slopes. One-third of the 2,200 seats are in front of the Philharmonic's conductor, Herbert von Karajan. "Admittedly, it is a new form," says the architect, "but one which I believe is more in tune with our times...
...that require referenda to begin or end fluoridation. Mrs. Raymond A. Bauer, chairman of the leading profluoridation group, says that no action has yet been taken to change the law. Unless it is amended, however, there will undoubtedly be a fourth fluoridation vote in 1965, and probably others at irregular intervals thereafter...