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...Boston, an outfit called Infact Systems Inc. has put out a paperbound "complaint kit" with tear-out forms declaring that this is my SECOND complaint, then THIS is MY APPEAL TO A THIRD PARTY. Another booklet, published in New York, lists the presidents of a wide range of companies, with their addresses, to whom the complainer is advised to address his complaint (the theory being that the complainer gets more action if he goes right to the top). But in this day of the form reply, that advice can be dubious. One unhappy patron who discovered bedbugs in his hotel...
...offshoot of Carbide's farming ventures is a $3.50 toy, "Nature's Window." Marketed by Ideal Toy Corp., it is a kit of seeds and two plastic disks containing a chemical gel that retains water; in it, seeds begin to germinate within a couple of days. By year's end Carbide expects to sell 15 million disks to Ideal...
...landscape. The West was not only a place but a state of imagination, which could invest almost any tract of virgin country between the Appalachians and the Rockies with a kind of epic innocence: nature unspoiled, inhabited by prelapsarian man. One itinerant painter, Worthington Wittredge, met the legendary scout Kit Carson in Santa Fe in 1866. "Nature had made a deep impression on this man's mind," Wittredge observed, "and I could not but think of him standing alone on top of a great mountain far away from all human contact, worshiping in his way a grand effect...
...medium two centuries later-through nature rather than culture. The two great themes of English art in the 18th and 19th centuries were antiquity and landscape. Both necessitated some form of travel-either taking the road to Rome or making the shorter trip into the English countryside, with painting kit. Oil paint in tubes made Impressionism possible, but that sort of packaging did not exist in the 18th century. Lugging oils through the vales of Kent or the gorges of Switzerland was messy, and watercolor-carried dry, in little pans-was the solution. The sheer convenience of watercolor...
...Kit Kat Klub--underneath its rouged and mascaraed exterior--possesses a knowing intelligence in the character of its Master of Ceremonies--as played by Joel Grey, a wicked little man who as readily agrees to pinch-hit as a chorus girl in drag as he assumes the role of death's subaltern on earth, doing both with a manic enthusiasm that belongs only to the dying and damned. With Grey's M.C. on hand, the conventional half of Cabaret was never even in the running...