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...eloquence is reduced to calling them "deceptively obvious." In fact, their obviousness is not deceptive; it is just obvious. And Ramos, whose Batmen and Playboy Bunnies go as far as pop ever went in unctuous, opportunistic triviality, seems to be in the show merely to illustrate an amusing feedback loop between pop and commercial art. In 1962, at the peak of the Batman revival, Ramos got some mileage from painting the masked hero of Bob Kane's comic strip. Four years later, a Batman comic returned the compliment by illustrating a pop exhibition in the Gotham City museum...
...Waldo Pepper, an aerial barnstorming epic set in the '20s, Luci did some public hell-raising. She hopped into the cockpit of a 1918 plane, donned goggles and let Stunt Pilot Frank Tallman take her out for just a ride-apparently not even a spin, a roll, a loop-trie-loop, a couple of bunts...
...elliptical orbit that swings them close to the sun and then so far out again that they do not return to the vicinity of the sun for years. Some, like Encke's comet, which makes a pass around the sun every 3.3 years, have relatively small orbits. Others loop out billions of miles from the sun, and millions of years elapse before they return...
...that humanity craves mobility, the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in Manhattan is staging a show called "Portable World." No gypsy could crave more items that can be folded out, inflated, worn or comfortably toted. "Body extensions"-notions to be worn by people on the move-include the "Toot-a-Loop" radio, which twists around the arm like a snake. The sauna bodysuit promises to create a hotbox effect merely by being hooked up to a portable hair dryer...
...sport stands to reason. Horsehide struck with a stick, a fuzzy object whacked over a net, an inflated sphere thrown into a metal loop - any thinking child can see the absurdities of such games. A thinking adult, of course, is another matter. The intelligent, mature, reasonable fan can see no nonsense in his favorite game. On the contrary, the more ridiculous the better. This weekend some 70 million viewers will parse and analyze the most gripping, controversial absurdity of them all: professional football...