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...thriller exuberantly travestied. No doubt Goldfinger's formula for box-office gold contains entirely too much brass, but who cares? In scene after scene Director Guy Hamilton has contrived some hilariously horrible sight gags. Item: a gangster Goldfingered for liquidation is taken for a ride to the nearest junkyard, where car and contents are seized by a giant claw, dropped into a mighty mangle and ruthlessly crushed into a small square bale of bloody metal. "Ah, yes!" Goldfinger graciously explains when somebody wonders where the gangster is. "He had a pressing engagement...
Victorian Finishes. No matter how questionable its content, much of the new sculpture is painstakingly crafted. The practitioners of junkyard assemblages have dwindled. Brutalism for its shock effect is on the wane. A new trend is the number of works that are neatly packaged in boxes, which Sir Herbert Read recently thought should be labeled "furniture" rather than "sculpture." Random objects glitter behind glass in the work of Joseph Cornell and Mary Bauermeister; even Louise Nevelson's newest darkling orts of woodwork are kept as purely as blackfish in glass bowls...
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...another occasion, Bernays brought architect Peter Blake, the author of God's Own Junkyard, to Cambridge to oppose the underpasses and explain the technical side of highway and city planning...
Architect-author Peter Blake, whose controversial book God's Own Junkyard is an attack on the "planned deterioration of America's landscape," insisted that only "coordinated planning with vision," can free the cities from the "incredible mess" they are presently...