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...motion-picture presentation to supplement its static sights, and it has been estimated that a cinema addict could spend every minute of Expo's 183 days at a screen and still not see every frame available. One of the most sensational flicks: the mad, mad show at the Labyrinth, a five-story pavilion built by the National Film Board of Canada. The feature is prosaically called "The Story of Man," but during the 45-minute film the viewers move from chamber to chamber, eye-witnessing a re-creation of the Greeks' Minotaur myth. At times, members...
Cheating Cheaters. As far as the young and adventurous are concerned, Julio Le Pare sums up what is happening in art. How seriously they take him is a question that doesn't bother Le Pare at all. He describes his own work as "a labyrinth, a fun house, a release from the conventional, uncomfortable world." He is all against the high seriousness with which critics and museums surround works of art. "Rather than take my art seriously," he explains, "the spectator should laugh when he enters the room." The cream of the jest Le Pare generally keeps to himself...
...perceive the world as other men do. An eye illness made him blind ten years ago; moreover, his "stories" are not fiction but something more akin to thought patterns. Long ago, he began storing his visions in what he calls the "unstable world of the mind, an indefatigable labyrinth, a chaos, a dream." And out of this darkness, from total recall, flash his scintillas of light...
...week ago, Sam Brown--with perhaps a half-dozen hours of sleep in three days--had to stand before television lights and cameras and a labyrinth of microphones, and tell the nation that an organization to which he was committed had been perpetrating a grandiose, 15-year lie. Today, this congenial -- if somewhat idealistic -- young man is talking about the opportunity the whole affair may have provided for a new era in national student involvement...
...world shrinks more and more often into the confines of a great institution. Writers have spun whole novels out of a single metaphor: a sanatorium (Mann), a concentration camp (E. E. Cummings), a university (Barth). First Novelist Peter Israel has gone a step further. His setting is a windowless labyrinth of long corridors and locked doors; its rules and workings resemble the capriciousness of Kafka's world. Whether it is an asylum or a prison, Israel never makes clear. More than anything else, it seems to be the author's vision of the enslaved human consciousness...