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...value of Kiesler's galaxies is that they demonstrate a new dimension for pictures. Hitherto paintings generally have required the looker to project himself into their midst by an effort of the imagination: it was necessary to imagine the flat surface of the picture as a sort of window, looking onto an actual scene. Kiesler's galaxies can surround the viewer, as a room does: they place him within the work...
...touch directly . . . with the top industrial giants. You know . . . someone who can take three hours for lunch . . . Now what is that type of employer looking for in a secretary? Shorthand speed? Dependability? Industry? Don't be silly! First and foremost, he's looking for a LOOKER ... Of course, this preoccupation with pulchritude on the part of the employer may not be noble and high-minded . . . But there it is . . . It's sex. You can't fight...
...Does this mean that every top executive ... is a lecherous old wolf? ... Of course it doesn't. Your graduates will be perfectly safe . . . But it does mean that your intelligent, attractive girl will have a well-paid job till she marries . . . Your lovely looker will move into a stuffy tycoon's office and unstuff the stuffy...
...Christ, oh Christ . . . the King's horse!" cried a looker-on. "No one can check him!" At that instant John of Oversley, a young English squire, shouted to his friend Robert of Kinwarton: "Shoot, Robert . . . shoot to turn the King's horse!" Robert shot. The arrow sang before the startled eyes of the charger and he reared back. And so, as Author Dorothy Charques tells it, King Richard was preserved to go on the Third Crusade, and squires John and Robert, as their reward, got a chance to go along in his personal entourage. Men Like Shadows...
...Bosporus (meaning ox or cow ford) is a deep, narrow strait separating Europe and Asia, named in honor of an early swimmer: Io, daughter of the river god Inachos. Io, a looker, dallied with Zeus, who took the precaution-unavailable to other philandering husbands-of changing her into a heifer whenever his wife hove in sight. But Hera (Mrs. Zeus) was a shade too smart for him. One day she archly asked her husband to give her the heifer as a pet. To get out of the fix, poor Io galloped down over the plains of Illyria, across the Balkan...