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...floating grotto of aluminum cubes that gives visitors a 20-minute visit to "a world already possible but not yet here." In a huge plastic sphere called a Bubblelator, 100 visitors at a time are lifted into the cubistic caverns above, there to shuffle through a labyrinth of 3,600 aluminum cubes, and be exposed by light, sound projection and three-dimensional devices to a dreamworld tunnel of love that involves them "emotionally with the future's opportunities and challenges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: Go West, Everybody | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...image of a cool, benign forest opening towards the sea. Now I am beginning. With my spatula (I do not possess any brushes) I throw on colors, distributing them and mixing them right on the surface. I am mixing many colors, fourteen, fifteen perhaps, evolving a labyrinth of hues and shapes. Finally, the entire surface is swimming in color. I retreat a few steps to look at my work. For the devil's sake! I can't see any ocean. The luminescent opening in the center has become an enormous perspective of pink and bluish lights. And here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Spatula & a Vague Idea | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...Oran, a city facing the sea but turned inward on itself like a snail, was once called "the capital of boredom." Now its 400,000 people (half European, half Moslem) were bored only with mutual slaughter. The Oran prefect was hiding at the center of a labyrinth of locked doors and guarded hallways; the entire civil administration of Algiers has fled 40 miles away to an armed camp at Rocher Noir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Brothers | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

...stand impersonal in stone and larger than life in the palace garden. Generally, he seems to be saying that all men and women live, or can live, more than merely personal lives, that all lives potentially contain, as these two lives contain, elements of legend -the experience of the labyrinth, a struggle between Death and the Maiden, a sleeping beauty and an awakening prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All Things to All Men | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

...Gibbon and Ramon Novarro to such of their descendants as might still be living." Novarro, a spry 62-year-old living in North Hollywood, is to this day perfectly able to communicate with anyone by word of mouth rather than mediums. But at the center of Durrell's Labyrinth, there lurks enough true humanity to make up for a little bit of bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Maze with a Moral | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

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